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Here's another good list:

Read All The Things!: Best Books Of 2022 https://ajsterkel.blogspot.com/2023/01/best-books-of-2022.html

#BestBooks2022 #bookstodon #books #BookBlogger

See the list of #BestBooks2022 middle-grade #author Nicole read:

Top Ten Books of 2022!! – Feed Your Fiction Addiction https://feedyourfictionaddiction.com/2023/01/top-ten-books-of-2022.html

#LetsDiscuss2023 #bookstodon #books #BooksOf2022

Terrie lists her 10 favorite reads of 2022 in her #TopTenTuesday post:

Top 10 Tuesday: My Best of 2022 https://www.bookshelfjourneys.com/post/ttt-fave-reads-2022

#bookstodon #books #BestBooks2022

Anne's #TopTenTuesday list of favorite books read in 2022 contains several titles still on my TBR shelves.

My Head Is Full of Books: TTT: My Favorite Novels of 2022 https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2023/01/ttt-my-favorite-novels-of-2022.html

#bookstodon #BestBooks2022 #books #BookBlogger

Babel (2022) by R.F. Kuang. I'm quite ignorant regarding the whole Dark Academia trend but I immediately could tell how desperately it needed this book. A postcolonial critique of western universities that questions the politics of translation and comes up with a brilliant form of magic. Its radical conclusion is consistent with the perfidious power play the protagonist and his friends are subjected to and the story feels highly topical right now.

#Babel #RFKuang #HeikeLovesLists #BestBooks2022

Derrida (2010) by Benoît Peeters. Few writers have shaped the way I think as much as the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and learning about his life from this engaging biography has been a pleasure. Now Derrida himself would be the first to question the distinction between biography and fiction, yet Peeters does an amazing job in making you feel like you encounter the actual person. I was in awe and - by the last chapter - in tears.

#Derrida #BenoîtPeeters #HeikeLovesLists #BestBooks2022

#TopTenTuesday : The Best Books I Read in 2022 - Notes in the Margin https://www.notesinthemargin.org/2023/01/03/toptentuesday-the-best-books-i-read-in-2022/

#bookstodon #BestBooks2022

Here's Jana's list that contains all the links for this week's #TopTenTuesday posts.

Top Ten Favorite Books of 2022 - That Artsy Reader Girl https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/2023/01/top-ten-favorite-books-of-2022/

#bookstodon #books #BookBloggers #BestBooks2022

A Snake Falls to Earth (2021) by Darcie Little Badger. To me this will always be the prime example of Indigenous Futurism. The story of a Lipan girl fearing for her grandmother's land and a snake from the spirit world who have work together to save a species from extinction is different from any other YA book I've ever read. It refrains from solutions through violence and displays an attentive care for nature which I loved.

#ASnakeFallsToEarth #DarcieLittleBadger #HeikeLovesLists #BestBooks2022

Nova (1968) by Samuel R. Delany. Shame on me for discovering this stunning classic only recently. A bunch of misfits and weirdos follow a futuristic Captain Ahab on a quest for revenge which is going to lead them through the galaxy and right into an exploding sun. Immensely self-aware characters ponder on the mythical qualities of their pursuit, making this short space opera feel both like a greek epic and a great American novel. Amazing.

#Nova #SamuelRDelany #HeikeLovesLists #BestBooks2022

Borne (2017) by Jeff VanderMeer. A tender biohorror masterpiece about love and loss and the struggles of maintaining a relationship when a childlike new party disturbs the balance. I'm in awe of how neatly the allegory for motherhood fits into the vivid scenery, never overshadowed by VanderMeer's outbursts of creativity that created the most memorable monsters. I liked Annihilation just fine, but this is the book that I'll come back to.

#Borne #JeffVanDerMeer #HeikeLovesLists #BestBooks2022

2022 Reading Year: My Favourite Books : BookerTalk https://bookertalk.com/2022-reading-year-my-favourite-books/

#bookstodon #BestBooks2022

Never Say You Can't Survive (2021) by Charlie Jane Anders. Turns out, autobiographical writing advice from one of my favorite authors was what I needed to finally allow myself to pour my sorrow into text and strategically build a new coping mechanism. It even comes with small exercises. There are many books about becoming a better writer, but this one's also about getting better *through* writing and that's so important!

#NeverSayYouCantSurvive #CharlieJaneAnders #HeikeLovesLists #BestBooks2022

The Past is Red (2021) by Catherynne M. Valente. Voltaire's Candide is indeed a suitable point of comparison for this satirical novella and as a huge Leibniz fan I don't say this lightly. A hilariously optimistic rapport of the end times when the last humans live on an island of floating garbage. Narrated by Tetley, the most hated person on the island, it teaches a form of radical grattitude which I desperately needed in 2022.

#ThePastIsRed #CatherynneMValente #HeikeLovesLists #BestBooks2022

I read A LOT. Total #bookworm, 50-60 books/year easily, physical books and ebooks, almost all fiction. Here were my faves this year. Not in order per se, but grouped into a few…..tiers of excellence in the collages. #bestbooks2022 @bookstodon

Plus a bonus pic of my dog Moj disrupting me while reading, as he does daily. Good thing he’s so cute. #dogsofmastodon

I read A LOT. Total #bookworm, 50-60 books/year easily, almost all fiction. Here were my faves this year. Not in order per se, but grouped into a few…..tiers of excellence in the collages. #bestbooks2022 #bookstodon
Plus a bonus pic of my dog Moj disrupting me while reading, as he does daily. Good thing he’s so cute. #dogsofmastodon

My favorite books of 2022!! What fiction or memoirs did you love in 2022? #bookstodon #Books #bestof2022 #bestbooks2022

1) The Sentence by Louise Erdrich 2) Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

And I discovered listening to memoirs by the author via audiobook:

1) Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby 2) Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad

My Bests of 2022

Fiction:
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
Foster by Claire Keegan
The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker
The Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel

Nonfiction:
The Lost Family by Libby Copeland
Let's Get Physical by Danielle Friedman
Funny Farm Laurie Zaleski
Heartbreak by Florence Williams
Midlife Bites by Jen Mann

#BestBooks2022 #books #bookstodon #nonfiction #fiction

Fevered Star by @RoanhorseBex (a worthy sequel to Black Sun that made me like a character who didn't click for me in the first book!)

The Hidden Life of Addie LaRue by @veschwab (just freaking gorgeous)

Kings Rising and Curse of Dracula are the last in their respective series, but I read both series this year and loved them; those two are just the best! 😄 Fevered Star is the sequel to one of my favorite reads of 2020. 3/3 #bestbooks2022 #bookstodon