Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Favorite Books of 2022.
I tried to keep this list down to 10, but I just couldn’t. So I separated out audiobooks, eliminated almost all my rereads, and included a bunch of honorable mentions… and I still left out a bunch of books I loved.
I’m not sure if it’s that I actually read more really wonderful books this year, or whether I was more inclined to give 5 stars than I was over the previous year or two, but I ended up with far more 5-star books in 2020 than in 2020 or 2021. I think perhaps both reasons are true; I read a lot more good books this year, and I rated the books I read a little more generously, a little less critically. Which essentially means I ended up giving some books 5 stars that might have received 4.5 in a previous year. In any case, every book on this list received 5 stars, including the honorable mentions (with one exception, explained below.)
TOP TEN BOOKS & EBOOKS (in the order I read them)
An Impossible Imposter (Veronica Speedwell #7), by Deanna Raybourn
A Perilous Perspective (Lady Darby #10), by Anna Lee Huber
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by V. E. Schwab
The Secret of Bow Lane (Kat Holloway #6), by Jennifer Ashley
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, by Sangu Mandanna
Station Eternity (Mur Lafferty)
A Little Too Familiar (Lish McBride)
The Spare Man (Mary Robinette Kowal)
Legends and Lattes (Travis Baldree)
Glamour in Glass (Mary Robinette Kowal)
TOP FIVE AUDIOBOOKS (in the order I listened to them)
Index, A History of the, by Dennis Duncan (nonfiction)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot #1), by Becky Chambers, read by Emmet Grosland
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot #2), by Becky Chambers, read by Emmet Grosland
84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff, read by Barbara Rosenblat and John Franklyn-Robbins
The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings #1), by J. R. R. Tolkien, read by Andy Serkis (OK, this isn’t a new book for me; I’ve read it at least 15 times, and I have listened to the audiobook narrated by Rob Inglis once. But it’s the first time I’ve listened to Andy Serkis’s reading, which is excellent.)
Graphic Novels
Mooncakes, by Suzanne Walker, art by Wendy Xu
Honorable Mention (in the order I read them)
I gave all of these 5 stars, too, except Marple: 12 New Stories, which I include here on the basis of several 5-star stories within it.
The Shadow of Memory (Kate Hamilton #4), by Connie Berry
You Were Made To Be Mine (Palace of Rogues #5), by Julie Anne Long
The Littlest Library, by Poppy Alexander
The Siren of Sussex (Belles of London #1), by Mimi Matthews
Touchstones: A Collection (Stephanie Burgis)
The Belle of Belgrave Square (Belles of London #2), by Mimi Matthews
The Kiss Curse (Erin Sterling)
Marple: 12 New Stories (anthology) — 4 stars, but several 5-star stories made me include it here
Lydia
I love the Monk and Robot series. It really should be a tv show or miniseries or something!
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Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
I’ve seen Legends & Lattes on a lot of these lists. Looks like I need to read that one. I loved Addie Larue – that one made my list too.
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Wendy
The Siren of Sussex and the Belle of Belgrave Square were both so good! Nice list!
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Katherine
I love the Raybourn and Huber series and I read The Belle of Belgrave Square this year and really enjoyed it. I have The Littlest Library on my TBR and I’ve really enjoyed the Connie Berry series. 84, Charing Cross Road is one of my absolute favorites and I bet it is even better on audio.
Aj @ Read All The Things!
I love Addie LaRue! It’s one of my all-time favorites.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
It was terrific, wasn’t it?
Connie Berry
Thank you for mentioning The Shadow of Memory!
Lark_Bookwyrm
It was wonderful! One of the books that made it so, so difficult to keep the favorites list near 10 books, in fact. By the way, I have been giving your books to my mom for Christmas every year for the last three years. She loves them and looks forward to them.