Reading List 2022

This year has been absolutely incredible for books. I have learnt so much as a person and also as a writer. I have been moved, transformed and pushed to my limits. It cannot be expressed enough how utterly grateful I am for the contents of this list. As always, I will put a * next to any that particularly stood out, as I don't think I actually have a favourite/book of the year amongst them (they were all that good)! I will also include a // next to any I don't recommend/didn't like at all.

The list is as follows:

1) The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami 2) Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro 3) *Book of Dust V1 - Philip Pullman 4) //Book of Dust V2 - Philip Pullman 5) //The Comfort Book - Matt Haig 6) *Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr 7) *Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead 8) Troy - Stephen Fry 9) *Detransition Baby - Torrey Peters 10) *The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki 11) Open Water - Caleb Azuman Nelson 12) //The Match - Harlan Coben 13) First Person Singular - Haruki Murakami 14) Tape Measure Murders - Agatha Christie (Short) 15) The Kidnapped Prime Minister - Agatha Christie (Short) 16) The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor - Agatha Christie (Short) 17) The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman - Agatha Christie (Short) 18) The Mystery at Hunters Lodge - Agatha Christie (Short) 19) The Adventure of the Western Star - Agatha Christie (Short) 20) *Olga Dies Dreaming - Xochitl Gonzalez 21) Phasers on Stun! - Ryan Britt 22) Afterparties - Anthony Veasna So 23) The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller 24) The Pink Hotel - Liska Jacobs 25) *Nuclear Family - Joseph Han 26) *Young Mungo - Douglas Stuart 27) //Fairy Tale - Stephen King 28) *Nightcrawling - Leila Mottley 29) *Intimacies - Katie Kitamura 30) The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis 31) The lion, the witch and the wardrobe - C.S. Lewis 32) The horse and the boy - C.S. Lewis 33) *Love in the big city - Sang Young Park