What have been your standout books of 2022?

Hey @TattiePants you may already know mine if you've been lurking on 50 Books but :

Fiction :

Queenie by Candace Carty Williams
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The People In The Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

Not Outstanding But Really Good Reads :

Foster and Small Things Like These by Clare Keegan
My Policeman by Bethan Roberts
Convenience Store Worker by Sayaka Murata
Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Fire And Blood by George RR Martin
The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
The Somnambulist by Essie Fox

Non Fiction

Action Park by Andy Mulvihill with Jake Rossen
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
House Of Glass by Hadley Freeman
Natives by Akala
Madhouse At The End Of The Earth by Julian Sancton

And less outstanding

Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser

The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
The Huntress - Kate Quinn

My favourites this year (out of 58 I’ve read so far!).
last house on needless street - catriona ward
Piranesi- Susanne Clark - not what I’d normally read but so atmospheric it really stuck with me!
the olive tree - Lucinda Riley - a new author to me but loved it so much I’ve asked for the 7 sisters series for Christmas
Malibu rising - Taylor Jenkins read
a prayer for Owen meany - John irving

The Melting - Lise Spitz
City of Girls - Elisabeth Gilbert
an Anne Tyler book I think about a disappeared daughter and a man who looks for her?
My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
Amy and Isabelle - Elisabeth Strout

I’d say about these books - they’re not ones I necessarily love or would recommend, the first one was quite disturbing actually! I like Strout, but I wouldn’t say her books are my favourite by any means. And I read other books which I think were/are easy to dismiss, the awful Hurdy Gurdy being one but I’m quite fussy in what I really like!

@pigalow27 I'm reading The Push now. It's so good although I'm reading it with a slight dread at what's to some!

@Scout2016 you have reminded me to reread I Know This Much is True. Amazing book and I've read it twice, the last time a fee years ago.

My top books of 2022:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
The Six Tudor Queens series by Alison Weir
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Not all books from 2022

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Dark is the Grave by T.G. Reid

loads more read but have not made much impact, plus have read or stopped reading some absolute trash, including a load of YA stuff my daughter is reading.

Love after love by Ingrid Persaud
The Somnambulist by Essie Fox
The Visitors by Rebecca Mascull
The most fun we ever had by Claire Lombardo

One for the blackbird one for the crow
Florence Adler swims again
The trouble with goats and sheep
All of the grishaverse books

Shuggie Bain
The Paper Palace
The Fair Botanists

Mine are:

Kirstin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset. Translated by Tiina Nunnally

Esther's Notebooks 1. Tales from my ten-year-old life by Riad Sattouf. Translated by Sam Taylor

Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov. Translated by George Bird

Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov. Translated by Boris Dralyuk

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. Translated by Ann Goldstein

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The Push by Ashley Audrain- read months ago and still think about it.

Devotion by Hannah Kent
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
White Woman on a Green Bicycle by Melissa Roffey, also by her The Mermaid of Black Conch

I'm Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait (so, so funny, especially if you come from a slightly dysfunctional family)
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson (amazing as ever)

I haven't read much this year but these are my stand-outs, all non-fiction:

Baggage - Alan Cumming
The A-Z of Well-being - Will Young
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat - Brian Cox

Sorry, meant have ordered A Terrible Kindness (not Trespass).

My favourite books this year (not all published in 2022):

The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarisa Goenawan

Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

Milkman by Anna Burns

The Secret History by Donna Tart

Violeta by Isabel Allende

The Secret Lives Of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

Daisy Jones And The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez

This Charming Man by Marian Keyes

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

I have read two outstanding books this year - Booth by Karen Joy Fowler and William Boyd's The Romantic. Both have stayed with me.

At the moment I'm part way through Bournville and then will start Marina Hyde's What Just Happened. I have also ordered Colm Toibin's A Guest st the Feast.

On the basis of this thread I have ordered Trespass and Lessons in Chemistry.

Same for me! I still think about this novel a lot, and I read it several months ago. Stunning work.

Another one who loved A Terrible Kindness .My favourite book of the year. She's an interesting speaker as well.
Other standouts have been
An Experiment in Love Hilary Mantel
Vaxxers Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green
Utopia Avenue David Mitchell
A Midwinter Break Bernard Mclaverty
Diary of an Ordinary Woman Margaret Forster
The House of Fortune Jessie Burton
The Rose Code Kate Quinn

Ooh yes chouette has really stuck with me

YY to Still Life and Hungry.

I loved Sankofa as well.