Best book you read in 2022

[Anonymouseposter]

What was the best book you read last year? I’m looking for ideas for what to read next. My favourite was American Dirt, I learned a lot and found it very gripping.

I can’t choose between American Dirt and If I Can’t Have You by Charlotte Levin.

Came on to say American Dirt but you beat me to it. Probably the best book I've read in my life.

Off I go to purchase American dirt

Where They Burn Books, They Also Burn People was one of my favourites. Second Sister was also good.

Confessions of Frannie Langton! Got me out of a big reading slump.

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker was definitely my best read of 2022

“Shuggie Bain”or “All the Light You cannot See “

Oh god, Shuggie Bain 😭

Have you read Young Mungo?

Have you read Young Mungo?

No I haven’t got the “emotional bandwidth” to handle it at the moment 😂

The Ninth Child by Sally Magnusson, and Company of Liars by Karen Maitland.

Snuggie Bain was very bleak. I chose it for holiday reading. Sitting in the sun transported to a council estate in the back of beyond in Scotland. It did make an impact.

Young Mungo and Shuggie Bain

Lessons in Chemistry

Still Life by Sarah Winman for me. Loved every word of it.

I read A Little Life while lying on a beach in Italy 😂 It made me really miserable.

I think we're choosing the wrong kind of holiday books.

yep Shuggie Bain not your typical beach read is it? But it was so brilliantly written I kept wanting to applaud the author for a wonderful turn of phrase or description. I’m also staying away from A Little Life for similar reason. I don’t know why so much good literary fiction is so miserable.

Fiction - The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

Non-fiction - The Roaring Girls by Holly Kyte

Salt Path, The. Wild Silence and Land Lines, all by Raynor Winn.

It's hard to choose between Love Marriage by Monica Ali, Summer by Ali Smith and In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park.

I love Yeonmi Park. She has a new book out soon I think.

Mine was Woman of the Inner Sea by Thomas Keneally. It had been unread on my bookshelf for literally years and then I couldn't put it down.

Oh thanks for that Lament. I will definitely look out for her next book. It's been a year since I read In Order to Live and I still think about her.

This was absolutely outstanding!

Lessons in chemistry was amazing