It is nearly
the end of the year. It is the time when everybody is doing top ten lists. So
here is a top ten: my completely unobjective list of the top ten books I have
read this year. Many of these did not come out this year, but I read them this
year. Those that did come out this year I will mark with a: (2022). Overall, it
was a good reading year for me. I have read 52 books this year according to
Goodreads. There was nothing that I absolutely hated, though a couple were just
so-so. The ten books that follow were not so-so. I rank them in no particular
order.
The
Martian – Andy Weir
The
Daughter of Dr. Moraeu – Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2022)
Fuzzy Nation – John Scalzi
Where the
Crawdads Sing –
Delia Owens
Fevered
Star – Rebecca
Roanhorse (2022)
Klara and
the Sun – Kazuo
Ishiguro
The Book
Thief – Markus Zusak
The
Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V. E. Schwab
A Psalm
for the Wild-Built –
Becky Chambers
Project
Hail Mary – Andy
Weir
Most of
these I have reviewed separately, so I am not going to go into detail here. Klara
and the Sun is the only one on my list written by a Nobel Laureate (Kazuo
Ishiguro). Andy Weir is the only author to make it on my list twice. What can I
say? The guy is good. Though Scalzi
nearly got two on my list. The Kaiju Preservation Society is an
honorable mention. Three on the list have been made into movies: The
Martian, Where the Crawdads Sing, and The Book Thief. While three
others: Project Hail Mary, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and Klara
and the Sun have movie projects “in development,” whatever that means.
Happy
reading.
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