Books of 2022


Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough – 3.5 stars

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby – 2.5 stars

Run by Ann Patchett – 4 stars

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow 4.5 stars

If I Were You by P.G. Wodehouse – 4 stars

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco – not rated

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson – 4 stars

Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks – 4 stars

My Sister’s Grave by Robert Dugoni – 3.5 stars

The Second Mrs. Astor: A Novel of the Titanic by Shana Abé – 4 stars

Something She’s Not Telling Us by Darcey Bell – 3 stars

The Fall of Lisa Bellow by Susan Perabo – 3.5 stars

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – 4 stars

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart – 4.5 stars

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson – 4 stars

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler – 4.5 stars

House of Dreams by Liz Rosenberg – 3.5 stars

The Songs of Trees by David George Haskell – not rated

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins – 5 stars

Going into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast – 5 stars

Kusama: The Graphic Novel by Elisa Macellari – 5 stars

One by One by Ruth Ware – 4.5 stars

Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow – 4 stars

Love and Ruin by Paula McLain – 3.5 stars

French Braid by Anne Tyler – 4 stars

Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson – 3 stars

Sea Wife by Amity Gaige – 4 stars

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy – 4 stars

The Girls of August by Anne Rivers Siddons – 3 stars

The Family by Naomi Krupitsky – 4 stars

Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian – 4 stars

Nantucket Sisters by Nancy Thayer – 3 stars

Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea by Steve Callahan – 5 stars

Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards – 4.5 stars

Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolf – 4 stars

The Party by Robyn Harding – 3.5 stars

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue – 3 stars

Love Marriage by Monica Ali – 4.5 stars

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith – 5 stars

Girl in the Rearview Mirror by Kelsey Rae Dimberg – 3.5 stars

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy – 4 stars

Fatal Rounds by Carrie Rubin – 4.5 stars

The Cutting Season by Attica Locke – 4 stars

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah – 3.5 stars

Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney – 4 stars

Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara – 3.5 stars