WHAT I READ IN 2022 AND MY FAVOURITE BOOKS
WHAT I READ IN 2022 AND MY FAVOURITE BOOKS I didn’t get started on novels/nonfiction this year until about Easter (prior to that I read lots of short stories randomly selected from anthologies) and yet I still managed to get through 124 books this year. Below are my favourites, followed by the whole list. (The favourites list excludes rereads, of which there were many, especially earlier in the year. So although MIDNIGHT SUN (Campbell) and THE INFORMATION (Amis) and BAG OF BONES (King) would easily have made the list, I’ve left them out.) My main revelation this year is that I consider Ruth Rendell (and her twisted pseudonymous sister Barbara Vine) an utter genius, probably one of the great writers of our age. I read a lot of her work when I was very young, and appreciated the plots, but after returning to her this year, I found her literary concerns and command of human psychology every bit as compelling as her storytelling. Indeed, she now joins a group of four male writers I con...