A question in our weekly questions thread in the 2nd week of January was to choose our top books read in 2022. In no particular order, here are our favorites, so if you’re looking for something to read right now, maybe give these a try.
- The Deep, Rivers Solomon
- Weird Fishes, Rae Mariz
- Africa Risen, an anthology edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight
- The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak
- Silence is a Sense, Layla Alammar
- Girl, Serpent, Thorn, Melissa Bashardoust
- Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
- Wife of the Gods, Kwei Quartey
- The Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa
- Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin
- When We Lost Our Heads, Heather O’Neill
- Assassin of Reality, Marina and Serhiy Dyachenko
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber and David Wengrow
- A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide, Steven W. Thrasher
- LaRose, Louise Erdrich
- The Employees, Olga Ravn
- Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield
- The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan
- The Souvenir Museum, Elizabeth McCracken
- The Morning Star, Karl Ove Knausgård (technically finished on 12/29/21 but close enough)
Book club reads we did together:
- A Psalm for the Wild Built, Becky Chambers
- House of Rust, Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
- The Dispossessed, Ursula K Le Guin
In the “What are you reading” channel, here’s more of what we read in 2022. Yes, we are a bunch of readers.
- The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee Mohamed
- Chlorophobia, edited by AR Ward
- The Disaster Tourist, Yun Ko-eun
- Bloodchild, Octavia Butler
- The Man Whom the Trees Loved, Algernon Blackwood
- Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid, Thor Hanson
- Zoocity, Lauren Beukes
- Electrify, Saul Griffith
- Revelations, edited by Sean O’Connor
- The Fifth Season, NK Jemisin
- Storm, George Stewart
- The House of Drought, Dennis Mombaeur
- The Doomed City, Strugatsky brothers
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
- The World As We Knew It, edited by Amy Brady and Tajja Isen
- Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi
- Kayak Isle Royale: A Call to Your Wild Soul, Juniper Lauren Ross
- The Rain Heron, Robbie Arnott
- Arboreality, Rebecca Campbell
- American War, Omar El Akkad
- Venomous Lumpsucker, Ned Beauman
- Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice
- The Past Is Red, Catherynne M. Valente
- Dinosaurs, Lydia Millet
- The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older
- “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, Ursula K Le Guin
- Emergency, Daisy Hildyard
- A Door Into Ocean, Joan Slonczewski