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What were your best and worst reads of 2022? Share your fav reads and those you enjoyed the least. This thread is a great resource for 2023 reading plans!

I’m surprised I only had two five-star reads in 2022:


Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa and

Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone


I did re-read three books this year that were five-star reads for me in previous years. Happy to say they were very much deserving of five stars again. They are:

The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

The Dry by Jane Harper


Enjoyed the least:

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu

Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family by Hannah Howard

Murder at Black Oaks by Phillip Margolin

That's really interesting Lilisa, as I was the same in 2022 - only a few new 5★ reads, but quite a lot of 5★ re-reads (granted, the reason I went back to them was because I enjoyed them so much the first time!).

So my favourites were:
The First Woman (Uganda)
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Nigeria)
A Woman in Berlin (Germany)

I also loved these ones that didn't qualify for my ATW list:
The Night Ship (Abrolhos Islands, Australia)
Lessons (England/Germany)

And my heart-swelling re-reads included:
Still Life (Italy - the audio was even better than print)
Questions of Travel (Australia, Sri Lanka, Italy, England and more)

My least favourites were:
Lyrics Alley (Sudan)
Sea Fever (Kazakhstan)
(But they were ok for me, and I would certainly try both authors again.)

Lol Andrea! I’ve just added four books to my 2023 reading list from your list.