Top 10 Books of 2022

 

Top 10 Books of 2022

     Here is my Top 10 list for 2022, only a year late. It's a truncated list - I have the list of books that I compiled last year, but I didn't make notes about them. 

1. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. This is the third book in a shared universe trilogy that started with "Station Eleven" and is a direct sequel to "The Glass Hotel. All are excellent and all three have been on my yearly top 10 lists. 

2. City on Fire by Don Winslow. Excellent organized crime novel set in Rhode Island. First in a trilogy.

3. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. Charming story of a woman befriended by an octopus while working in a Pacific Northwest aquarium. 

4. Braking Day by Adam Oyebanji. Excellent science fiction novel about things going wrong on a generation ship approaching its destination.

5. Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. Scientists open a portal to a planet populated with ain't monsters ala Godzilla. What could possibly go wrong?

6. True Biz by Sara Novic.

7. The Lincoln Highway by Amore Towles.

8. Booth by Karen Joy Fowler. This is a fictional look at the life of the family of John Wilkes Booth.

9. Fairy Tale by Stephen King. 

10. The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman.  Book 3 of "The Thursday Murder Club" series.