Dec 20, 2022
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Today’s show is my special
wrap-up episode where I share my top 10 books of the year. I read
65 books in 2022, as of December 19, and narrowed down my favorite
to 10. Eight of the top 10 were published in 2022, while two were
published in 2021. Those were two books I didn’t finish in 2021 and
purposely scheduled to read early in 2022, and I’m so glad I
did.
I also share which book I hated
and wanted to throw across the room, a few disappointing books, and
a few extras that were great books, even though they didn’t make my
top 10. And I end with a few books that I’m looking forward to that
will be published in 2023.
Join us in the Deliberate Freelancer Facebook group
where we’ll be talking about our
best and worst books of 2022!
I don’t want to spoil where my
top 10 books fell in the list, so the following books are ones I
recommended during this episode, but you’ll have to tune in to hear
the top 10. Also, I didn’t list the books I hated below because I
don’t want people to think I’m recommending
them.
Nonfiction:
- Unmasked: My Life-Solving
America’s Cold Cases by Paul Holes
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by
Michelle McNamara
- How the Word Is Passed: A
Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint
Smith
- Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam
Higginbotham
- All You Can Ever Know by Nicole
Chung (memoir)
Fiction:
- Wrong Place Wrong Time
by Gillian McAllister
- The Violin Conspiracy by
Brendan Slocumb
- Before She Disappeared by Lisa
Gardner
- The Night Shift by Alex
Finlay
- Notes on an Execution by Danya
Kukafka
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St.
John Mandel
- Station Eleven by Emily St.
John Mandel
- The Measure by Nikki
Erlick
- How High We Go in the Dark by
Sequoia Nagamatsu
- Bewilderment by Richard
Powers
- Hell of a Book by Jason
Mott
- Exit West by Mohsin
Hamid
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara
Kingsolver
- Iona Iverson’s Rules for
Commuting by Clare Pooley
- Flying Solo by Linda
Holmes
- Evvie Drake Starts Over by
Linda Holmes
- The Great Believers by Rebecca
Makkai
- The Southern Book Club’s Guide
to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
- The Dry (first in the Aaron
Falk series) by Jane Harper
- Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth
Keane
2023 Books I’m Looking Forward to:
- How to Sell a Haunted House by
Grady Hendrix, publishes January 17
- Exiles by Jane Harper,
publishes January 31
- I Have Some Questions for You
by Rebecca Makkai, publishes February 21
- A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
(memoir), publishes April 4
- The Half Moon by Mary Beth
Keane, publishes May 2
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