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Goodreads Staffers Share the Top Books They Read in 2022
Here at Goodreads World Headquarters, we tend to read a lot of books. Like, a lot a lot. And every December, as we finish up our respective Reading Challenges, we ask our colleagues a simple question: What were your three favorite books that you read this year?
It's a nice tradition, and every year we got back an intriguing array of fiction and nonfiction, big hits and hidden gems, old favorites and new adventures. For keen-eyed repeat readers of this particular column, yes, Heino Colyn really does revisit Hackers (based off the 1995 cyberpunk film) every single year! We checked!
There’s always a lot to love in our annual collection, and this time around there is truly something for everyone—romance, fantasy, thrillers, eco-science, memoirs, sci-fi, queer fiction, horror, humor, historical fiction… Pretty much everything, really. Alchemists and Anxious People. Legends and Luminaries. And, naturally, Book Lovers.
Now it's your turn! What are your top three books of the year? Please share them with us in the comments!
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Now it's your turn! What were the three best books you read in 2022?
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Five Little Indians, Mad Honey, and The Lincoln Highway
Demon Copperhead, Twenty Years Later, Eight Hundred Grapes
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich; Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir; The People We Keep by Alison Larkin; shout out to The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Cloud Cuckoo Land ( Anthony Doerr), The Lincoln Highway (Amor Towles) & The Heart's Invisible Furies (john Boyne)
Storyteller by Dave GrohlEmpire of Pain by Patrick Keefe
IT by Stephen King
The Idiot and Either/Or by Elif Batuman and The Sentence by Louise Erdrich.
More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
Darling Venom by Parker S. HuntingtonVerity by Colleen Hoover
Lord of Population (Population #1) by Elizabeth Stephens
Small Things Like These, The Go Between& Wonder by Donnaghue
The Guest List by Lucy Foley, Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, and Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Bleak House by Charles Dickens and Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy. It was a Victorian kind of year for me, I guess.
1. Great Expectations / Charles Dickens2. The Shell Seekers / Rosamund Pilcher
3. Shuggie Bain / Douglas Stuart
Inferno/Dan BrownThe Nightingale/Kristen Hannah
The Soul of Central New York: Syracuse Stories/Sean Kirst
Verity, Kingdom of Bones and The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver
Greenwood by Michael Christie. A Million Things by Emily Spurr. Between Before and After by Edita Mujkic.
Us Against You, Under the Whispering Door and Young Mungo
A Marvellous Light, Six of Crows & A Court of Mist and Fury are my top three but it was a very hard choice among many favorites 😂
The list has really gone downhill to me. No quarter finals, no ability to add a book that should be considered etc. SO many books not included and some that were originally released a couple of years ago. I think there should be AT LEAST a quarter finals round (I would even go for a round before that, maybe with all books nominated from readers.) Absolutely needs to have a place to add a book that is not included. Also think YA, young readers and picture books be separate categories.
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken follett, Ghosted by Rosie Walsh, The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
My top 5, in order of preference:“The House of the Spirits”, by Isabel Allende, translated from the Spanish by Magda Bogin
“Pachinko”, by Min Jin Lee
“Redemption Road”, by John Hart
“We Need to Talk About Kevin”, by Lionel Shriver (it’s all about the writing - this is riveting but a disturbing book)
“Shantaram”, by Gregory David Roberts
The Realm of The Elderlings by Robin HobbThe Greatcoats Series by Sébastien De Castell
Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Babel by R.F. Kuang
The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, The Winners by Fredrik Backman, We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
Red rising by pierce brown, pretty things by jenelle brown, grace year by Kim lighett
lessons in chemistry, cloud cuckoo land and the cartographers
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, Book Lovers by Emily HenryAnxious People by Fredrick Backman
House in the Cerulean Sea (TJ Klune) , Peter Pan (JM Barrie), The Aeneid (Virgil)
Friends, Lovers and The Big Terrible Thing by Matthew PerryMaybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas
Huh. So they *do* have employees? What have these so-called designers and engineers been doing? Goodreads hasn’t been updated in ten years.
All your perfects, forget me not and the last thing he told me.
A World of Curiosities, by Louise PennyHorse, by Geraldine Brooks
West With Giraffes, by Lynda Rutledge
American Dirt, A Dog's Purpose, The Great Believers
Hidden Pictures by Jason RekulakThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Apples never fall; lessons In chemistry; remarkably bright creatures.
Carrie Soto is Back, The House in the Cerulean Sea and Remarkably Bright Creatures
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Diamond Eye - Kate Quinn
Top 3 Non-Fiction:
Rise and Reign of the Mammals - Steve Brussatte
Four Hundred Souls - Ibram X. Kendri
The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert