Are you looking for great books to read for your 2023 reading year? Then check out the books that made my list of the best of 2022! Out of the 129 books I read last year, I'm proud to call these th best of the best.

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Books of 2023: The Trial by Laura Bates ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5

Bates has brought young readers another powerful and insightful tale of how sexism and harassment are rampant in our society. You think this is your everyday survival story, and it is not. It's a different type of survival story, a tale that most girls and women unfortunately live with every day. @bookstodon

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Way to make these supposedly best works of historical fiction sound about as interesting as a Honda Civic, New York Times Books. #bestbooksof2022

I forgot one! Another of my literary standouts of the year: Claire-Louise Bennett's <i>Checkout 19</i>, which @DrBibliomane put me onto. A book about the way life is permeated with books, and a lush, stylistically striking immersion into an idiosyncratic consciousness. Absolutely loved it.

(I missed this because I forgot to enter it on Goodreads, apparently, which also now means that I read ONE MORE book in 2022 than I did in 2021!)

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And a bonus mention for a piece of nonfiction which was as beautifully plotted, characterised, and written as my favourite novels of the year: Patrick Radden Keefe’s <i>Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty</i>, a three-generation family saga, like a more sober <i>I, Claudius</i>.

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Three great campus/dark-academia novels:

Julia May Jonas, <i>Vladimir</i> - very enjoyable riff on <i>Lolita</i> via an investigation of sexual misconduct on campus

Jean Hanff Korelitz, <i>The Devil and Webster</i> - I wished she hadn’t gone with the twist at the end, which bought her out of the intractable moral quandary the novel sets up, but this was the most recognisable campus novel I have ever read (though UOW is... not Dartmouth) – like one of the great 80s campus novels (Lodge, <i>Nice Work</i>, Smiley, <i>Moo</i>) set in a recognisably twenty-first century world.

Mona Awad, <i>All’s Well</i> which was also one of my picks of the year, but deserves mentioning again bc it’s such a good contribution to the campus-novel genre. Sort of a grown-up version of her <i>Bunny</i>, which is a Buffy-meets-The-Secret-History novel about dark magic shenanigans among a clique of mean girls in grad school for creative writing (as good as it sounds).

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Genre writers I got really into this year:

* Ruth Ware for her stylish, plot-driven British domestic noir

* Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series: John Le Carre crossed with P G Wodehouse, and a bit of Reginald Hill thrown in

* Denise Mina’s realist crime fiction (mostly set in Glasgow) plus her gorgeous caper novels: like a twenty-first century Barbara Wilson

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Literary standouts, part 2:

Sue Orr, <i>Loop Tracks</i>: a quiet book, entirely successful as a piece of realist women’s fiction, which at the same time, under the surface, manages to be terrifically conceptually and structurally complex (loop tracks!), so it quietly reorganises your brain while you read on for the understated plot and complicated characters.

Mona Awad <i>All's Well</i>: an amazing, unguessable, lush, magic-realist Shakespeare remix, a novel about a 40something woman in chronic pain, a campus novel, and a novel about putting on a play, so... perhaps the perfect book?

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Literary (by which I mean books that are doing something out-of-the-box and contributing to something beyond their own genre) standouts of the year, part 1:

S J Norman <i>Permafrost</i>
Eerie, interlinked, very queer ghost stories: a reinscription of the European ghost/fairy tradition on Indigenous terms. Subtle writing which goes on working in you long after the book has finished, and packs a hefty political punch.

Nat Ogle <i>In The Seeing Hands of Others</i>
Extraordinary, unnerving, chilling, unpredictable book which walked around my expectations in many ways. Brilliant thinking-through of empathy via an account of sexual assault which never excuses or valorises the perpetrator.

Claire Vaye Watkins, <i>I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness</i>: a literal vagina dentata and a Kathy-Ackeresque feminist trip. Put this on your “motherhood” reading lists.

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The comfort that I can always ask for…Books, Books & Books! Every time I turn a page, it’s the beginning of another adventure. I don’t know how to thank these fifty authors (as well as the other 68 books I’ve read this year), but here they are…#BooksOf2022 📚#BestBooksOf2022📚

The comfort that I can always ask for…Books, Books & Books! Every time I turn a page, it’s the beginning of another adventure. I don’t know how to thank these fifty authors (as well as the other 68 books I’ve read this year), but here they are…#BooksOf2022 📚#BestBooksOf2022📚

Mis libros favoritos del 2022 3/3

My favourite books of 2022 3/3

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Mis libros favoritos del 2022 2/3

My favourite books of 2022 2/3

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Mis libros favoritos del 2022 1/3

My favourite books of 2022 1/3

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The 17 books that were the best ones I read for every month of 2022:

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Books of 2022: Foster by Claire Keegan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Just like "Small Things Like These, here is a heartbreaking but thought-provoking story that is beautifully compelling in such a few pages. You don't realize what you have until you experience it in a whole new light, and Keegan does such a great job telling a poignant tale that is a must-read for the masses. @bookstodon

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Books of 2022: "Five Survive" by #HollyJackson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

I am completely spent after reading this one! 😳 I didn't think Jackson could top herself after series, but once again, she has enthralled readers with a haunting, unputdownable thriller!

Jackson has a winning book here and is a must-read before 2022 leaves us! All I know is that I won't look at RVs the same again (let alone go into one 😅)!

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This best books of the year list from Dan Kois at Slate is terrific and far from a retread of the usual suspects. Wonderful to see our very own Linda Rosenkrantz's Peter Hujar's Day included.https://slate.com/culture/2022/12/best-books-2022-fiction-nonfiction-comics.html #bestbooksof2022 #bestbooks #peterhujar #slate

Many thanks to Esquire and Adrienne Westenfeld for including ANCESTOR TROUBLE among the best books — and memoirs — of 2022.
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g39461958/best-memoirs-2022/
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Books of 2022: "These Are The Words: Fearless Verse To Find Your Voice" by Nikita Gill ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

#NikitaGill has done it again by bringing readers another poetry collection that not only makes readers emotional but empowers readers with her inspirational thoughts and words. Really wished I had a collection like this during my teenage years.

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