December 22, 2022
☼ books
☼ fiction
A list of 41 works of fiction that I read or re-read and 17 that I am yet to finish; rated and classified.
2022 - The Year in Fiction
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Completely read or re-read
Very Highly Rated
- Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
- Silverview, John le Carre
- Eversion, Alastair Reynolds
- Anathem, Neal Stephenson
- Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
- If on a Winter’s night a traveler, Italo Calvino
- The Madness of Crowds, Louise Penny
- Hollow, Brian Catling
- Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Highly Rated
- The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter
- Calcutta Chromosome, Amitav Ghosh
- The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall
- City of Ink, Elsa Hart
- Sea of Tranquility, Emily St John Mandel
- Winter Work, Dan Fesperman
- The Stories of Paul Bowles, Paul Bowles
- This Charming Man, C K McDonnell
- The Devil and Dark Water, Stuart Turton
- By Gaslight, Steven Price
- Journey under the Midnight Sun, Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O Smith
- The Knife Thrower and other stories, Steven Millhauser
Good
- Gun Island, Amitav Ghosh
- The Case of the General’s Thumb, Andrey Kurkov
- Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer
- City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff Vandermeer
- The Twist of a Knife, Anthony Horowitz
- First Person Singular, Haruki Murakami
- The Schrodinger Girl, Laurel Brett
- Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith
- Body Count, Barbara Nadel
- Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser
Good, but disappointing
- Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster
- Mordew, Alex Pheby
- The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd
- The Shadow of the Empire, Qiu Xiaolong
- The God Engines, John Scalzi
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E Harrow
Okay..
- Grave Descend, Michael Crichton (John Lange)
- The Moving Toyshop, Edmund Crispin
- The Pit Prop Syndicate, Freeman Wills Croft
- The Satsuma Complex, Bob Mortimer
Partly read
- The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk
- The Quincunx, Charles Palliser
- The Mercy of the Tide, Keith Rosson
- Lady Joker, Kaoru Takamura
- Bullet Train, Kotaro Isaka
- The Dream of Scipio, Iain Pears
- The Return of Faraz Ali, Aamina Ahmad
- Babel, R F Kuang
- The House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Blind Owl and Other Stories, Sadegh Hedayat
- Ka, John Crowley
- The Gone World, Tom Sweterlitsch
- Ordinary Monsters, J M Miro
- The Torqued Man, Peter Man
- Cult X, Fuminori Nakamura
- Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe
- The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry
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