A list of the books I’ve read, along with the month and year in which I finished each one. An asterisk indicates it is a “best of” book: one of the very best I read that year. “a” means audiobook.
2022
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie King (reading now)
The Beet Queen, Louise Erdrich (re-read, 5/22, reading now)
What Angels Fear, C.S. Harris (5/22)
Foxglove Summer, Ben Aaronovitch (5/22)
Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell (5/22)
By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder (re-read, 5/22, a)
*His Majesty’s Dragon, Naomi Novik (5/22, a)
*Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner (5/22)
Cold Earth, Ann Cleeves (5/22)
Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand (4/22)
Taste, Stanley Tucci (4/22, a)
Butter Honey Pig Bread, Francesca Ekwuyasi (4/22)
Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells (4/22, a)
The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (DNF, 4/22, a)
These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder (re-read, 4/22, a)
*Consequences, Penelope Lively (4/22)
Artificial Conditions, Martha Wells (4/22, a)
*The Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd (4/22)
Broken Homes, Ben Aaronovitch (4/22, a)
*The City of Good Death, Priyanka Champaneri (4/22)
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, Danielle Evans (4/22)
A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (4/22)
*Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (4/22, a)
The Prettiest Star, Carter Sickels (4/22)
*The Autobiography of Malcolm X (3/22)
*We All Hear Stories in the Dark, Robert Shearman (3/22)
*Things We Lost in the Fire, Mariana Enriquez (3/22, a)
*Mrs. Caliban, Rachel Ingalls (3/22)
Whispers Underground, Ben Aaronovitch (3/22, a)
All Over Creation, Ruth Ozeki (3/22)
Rattlesnake Ridge, Phil Simmons (DNF)
Moon Over Soho, Ben Aaronovitch (3/22, a)
Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym (3/22)
Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (3/22)
The Devotion of Suspect X, Keigo Higashino (3/22)
*Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch (2/22)
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2/22)
How Long ‘Til Black Future Month, NK Jemisin (2/22)
Starlight, Stella Gibbons (2/22)
Bottom Liner Blues, K.C. Constantine (1/22)
Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga (1/22)
The Odd Women, George Gissing (1/22)
Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde (1/22)
*Whiskey When We’re Dry, John Larison (1/22)
The Golem and the Jinni, Helen Wecker (1/22)
La gangrène et l’oubli, Benjamin Stora (1/22)
All Systems Red, Martha Wells (1/22)
Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner (1/22)
Zami, Audre Lorde (1/22)
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