I hope you’ll continue to indulge me as I do more wrap-up posts, which are mostly for my own edification. Last year was the first time I assembled a post reviewing all my fiction reading for the year, and it was interesting to see what patterns emerged. I noted that there were a lot of comfort rereads and light fiction, and that has continued this year, with a few more serious examples. I suppose it’s just what I need, when life is so challenging these days.
Here is a collage of my favorite discoveries from the year, followed by a complete list linked to my blog post or StoryGraph review.
Have you enjoyed any of these too? What were your outstanding fiction reads of 2022?
New to me Adult Fiction
- The Appeal
- Voting Day
- Don’t You Forget About Me
- Just Last Night
- Falconer
- The Color Purple
- The Hidden Palace
- The Queen’s Gambit
- Death of a Ghost
- The Bell Jar
- Swing Low
- The Heiress
- My Name Is Asher Lev
- The Gift of Asher Lev
- Home Fire
- The Sign for Home
- The Twyford Code
- Davita’s Harp
- The House with the Golden Door
- The Weather Woman
- The Whalebone Theatre
- Neverwhere
- The Country Child
Dean Street December
Around the World
- The Eighth Life (Georgia)
- Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions (Sicily)
- The Shadow of the Wind (Spain)
- Women Talking (Bolivia)
- The Game of Kings (Scotland)
- Salt Houses (Palestine)
- Black Water Sister (Malaysia)
- The Girl and the Ghost (Malaysia)
- The Dance Tree (Alsace)
- How to Order the Universe (Chile)
Reading the Theatre
- Death at La Fenice
- When You Get the Chance
- Enter a Murderer
- Moominsummer Madness
- Under Lock and Skeleton Key
Comfort Rereads
- Greenglass House
- Ghosts of Greenglass House
- Henry Huggins
- The Box of Delights
- Journey to the River Sea
- Emily Fox-Seton
- Cotillion
- A City of Bells
- The Blue Sword
- A Damsel in Distress
- The Tombs of Atuan
- Summer Lightning
- Phantastes
Fantasy series readalongs
- Prince Caspian
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Silver Chair
- The Horse and His Boy
- The Magician’s Nephew
- The Last Battle
- Over Sea, Under Stone
- The Dark Is Rising
- Greenwitch
- The Grey King
- Silver on the Tree
Several very familiar – many for obvious reasons! – titles here, and also quite a few I’ve yet to get to, if ever. I’ve yet to read the DWJ though – I’m waiting for an edition with illustrations that appeal…
Yes, I wasn’t wild about the ones in this edition. DWJ deserves better!
So many comfort rereads, that’s amazing and interesting La Grand Meaulnes, I remember reading that one too.
That was fun to do as a buddy read with Emma of Words and Peace. And I’ve been needing a lot of comfort lately. I wonder if 2023 will change in that regard at all.
Oh I’m so pleased you read The Color Purple! It’s one of my top three favorite books of all time, and I’m always delighted when other people give it a go. Though it starts out in a very dark place, it ends up being such a joyful book in so many ways.
Yes, that was really wonderful. I’m curious, what are your other two top books? 😀
Niceyear! And yes, I so love Chaim Potok, they are all so good
One of my top discoveries for sure.
I really enjoyed Five Windows! We did an episode of Tea or Books comparing it with Four Gardens by Margery Sharp, which was really fun.
That is a great pairing!