December 22, 2022 ☼ books ☼ fiction

2022 - The Year in Fiction

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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