01/01/2023
Danica’s favourite FICTION reads of 2022!
I read 32 books this year - my goal was 40 but whatever. I skimmed through my reading journal 🤓 and identified 16 favourites. Here’s my favourite fiction reads with one caveat. I read 3 of Louise Penny’s novels featuring inspector Gamache 😍😍😍. This series has a special place in my heart and I’d recommend them to almost anyone.
The 10 shown here are not in any particular order except that the first one, Sea of Tranquility, was my absolute favourite book of the year.
1. Absolute favourite
2. I love a lot about this book but I also love that the theme of LOVE is emphasized in the cover art. Do you see it?
3. I read all 5 of the Canada Reads finalists this year. Scarborough would have been my pick to win but it didn’t. I think every Canadian should read this book to better understand who we are and how we need to move forward
4. Adventure. Adventure. Adventure.
5. Winner of Canada Reads! And the GG’s! And many other prizes including a place in my top ten 🏆
6. After loving Sea of Tranquility I heard this had crossover characters, so I read it,
and loved it, and soon will be reading Station Eleven because I cannot get enough of Emily St. John Mandel
7. One of those novels you wouldn’t recommend to everyone because you know not everyone will love it. But I did. And most of the readers in our book club did too
8. Oh. A little piece of Canada’s history. And so good. Just so good. Recommend to everyone, even if it’s not their usual genre
9. One of those books that is SO hard and SO good at the same time. I can’t believe this is only Douglas Stuart’s second book. May there be many!
10. Read on vacation and felt like it was written Just For Me. To the point that I wondered whether I should recommend it, but it has more than 4/5 stars from over a hundred thousand people on goodreads so I guess I wasn’t alone!
Nonfiction post to follow. Did you read any of these? What did you think? What was your favourite read of 2022?
