All About Books discussion

This thread is where you can post your favorite book each month in 2022. You can create your post with the template below . At the end of each month when you edit your post , send a post telling us that you have updated it. For anyone interested , it's a good way to share our favorites and expand our TBR lists.

Copy the template below, and each month come back and edit your post with the favorite book you read that month. Then you pick out of those 12 for your favorite book of the year.

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Best of the year

My favourite for 2022:
January Silvia Plath The Bell Jar ****1/2
February Ada Gobetti, Diario partigiano ****1/2 and Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
March A.J. Cronin Hatter's Castle ****
April Primo Levi La tregua ****1/2 and D.E. Stevenson The Two Mrs. Abbotts ****
May Dacia Maraini Caro Pier Paolo ****
June Giovanni Boccaccio Decameron ****1/2
July Fyodor Dostoevsky I fratelli Karamazov *****
August Paoul Scott A Division of the Spoils ****
September Victoria Mas The Mad Women's Ball and Floriana Perna Folli ****
October Angie Thomas The Hate U Give and Annie Ernaux, L'evento ****
November John Irving The Cider House Rules ****1/2
December Chiara Ingrao Dita di dama ****

My favourites of 2022:

January: Schindler's List
February: Skyhunter
March: Wir sind doch alle längst gleichberechtigt
April: Project Hail Mary
May: Kingdom of Bones
June: Lion: A Long Way Home
July: Stay Away from Gretchen: Eine unmögliche Liebe
August: Junge Frau, am Fenster stehend, Abendlicht, blaues Kleid
September: Flame
October: Wicked Beauty
November: King of Battle and Blood
December: Anastasia

My favourite reads of 2022:-

January - Just Like the Other Girls by Claire Douglas
February - The Curator by M.W. Craven
March - The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine
April - Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay
May - Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
June - The Other Mother by Michel Bussi
July - Peaches for Monsieur le Curé by Joanne Harris
August - Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
September - East of Eden by John Steinbeck
October - Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
November - The Winners by Fredrik Backman and The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
December - Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka

Best of the year - Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena

Thanks for pointing out this was missing Kim! And thanks for making the thread Laura! :)

My favourite reads of 2022:-

January - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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January - Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out by Rick Alan Ross
February - The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
March - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
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Best of the year

My favorites of 2022:

January - The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
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Best of the year

Favourite books 2022. Thank you for this thread!!
January - The Murmur of Bees
February - The Heart's Invisible Furies
March - Marking Time
April - Rebecca
May - The Color Purple; La sospecha de Sofía
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Just posted my favourite reads for the months January to May and realized that they are all psychological thrillers or crime!

A bit unusual for me - for the last couple of years, only about half of my favourites were in these genres!!

It was a bit I did not up dated my post. Now It has all my "best Books" so far!

I have just updated my best books of this year too . It was difficult in May to choose only one!

Maria wrote: "I have just updated my best books of this year too . It was difficult in May to choose only one!"

Sometimes it really is!

I only count 5 star books, so wont' have one for every month

January - a reread - All the Light We Cannot See
February
March - Vinyl Cafe Unplugged (had 2, but the other was a reread)
April - Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe
May - A Gentleman in Moscow - had 2 but why add another Vinyl Cafe title?
June
July
August - The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom a reread
September
October - Ordinary Grace my favourite new read of the year so far
November
December

I'll try to remember to come back! I have been meaning to do this for months.

Hi moderators. Can we have a new thread for 2023 favourite books please?

Done Kim

Thanks Alannah!