We’re almost 93% of the way through year, and it’s time for more Best Of lists, because I say so. So here are the books I read in 2022 (for the first time) which I found particularly excellent:
- Project Hail Mary
- Pretty much everything by qntm: There Is No Antimemetics Division, Ra, Fine Structure, Ed, Valuable Humans In Transit
- Inverted Frontier series: Edges, Silver, Memory, Needle
- A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
- What If? 2
- The Lost Metal
Books I enjoyed well enough:
- The Blacktongue Thief
- A Master of Djinn
- She Who Became the Sun
- Quantum of Nightmares
- Foundryside (and its sequel, Shorefall)
- Skyward Flight
- Dreams Bigger than Heartbreak
- A Thousand Steps Into Night
- Iron Widow
- Nona the Ninth (the first two books are in the top category though)
- The This
Books I had mixed feelings about:
- Dune
- Termination Shock
- Escape from Yokai Land
- The Just City
- The Grey Bastards
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- The Union
Books that I barely or don’t even remember reading, but apparently I did:
- The Raven Spell
- The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry
- Persephone Station
- The Betrayals
Books I mostly didn’t like:
- From Scratch: Writings in Music Theory
- Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality
These were all on Kindle. If I read any new paperback or hardcover books this year, I honestly don’t remember them right now. I did reread several. But I’m mostly a convert to ebooks — they’re lighter to carry around, don’t take up storage space, and don’t have to be shipped.