Here are my 10 favourite books from 2022 - so far! A new video is up on my YouTube channel discussing each of these novels.
I love this time of year when readers take stock of what they've read in the past 6 months to recommend their top picks. Although I've recently read many great books that I've appreciated these ten titles completely gripped me and meant a lot to me personally. Some I read at the start of the year and one I just finished in the past week. I've spent so much time mulling these stories over, copying down quotes and discussing them with other readers.
These include tales of forbidden love, murder, family secrets, crimes, bodily possession, colonisation, medical disability, national strife, war and community life.
Books such as “The Trees” and “What You Can See From Here” strike an artful balance between comedy and drama. The tension between love and family life is movingly explored in the novels “Love Marriage”, “Young Mungo” and “Bolla”. There's a brilliant intensity to “Paradais” which kept me totally gripped. The heartbreaking narrative of “The Swimmers” so brilliantly shows the challenging process of ageing by reciting the facts of a difficult situation. “Build Your House Around My Body” is such an inventive puzzle of a novel I'm keen to revisit it. “The Colony” and “What Elena Knows” so poignantly show how the personal is political.
I'd enthusiastically recommend all these novels. I'd love to know if you've read any of them or if you're keen to read any of them. Also, what are the best books you've read in 2022 so far?
