Monday, January 2, 2023

Book List: Books Read in 2022


BOOKS READ IN 2022

Every January, when I remember, I post a list here on the blog of the books I read the prior year. I keep track of the books I read on LibraryThing

Here's the list of the 111 books I read in 2022, in the order I read them.

Notes about my rating system are below the list.

  • Katherine by Anya Seton 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz 🌹🌹🌹
  • The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • The Falls by Ian Rankin 🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • Little Big Man by Thomas Berger 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • Rat Race by Dick Francis 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • Trio by William Boyd 🌹🌹🌹1/2
  • Lucky by Marissa Staples 🌹🌹🌹
  • Love is Blind by William Boyd 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • Holy Orders by Benjamin Black 🌹🌹🌹🌹1/2
  • Blue Moon by Lee Child 🌹🌹🌹1/2
  • Mr. Majestyk by Elmore Leonard 🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • The Reservoir by David Duchovny (reviewed here) 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty 🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones 🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • Murder at Hazelmoor (aka The Sittaford Mystery) by Agatha Christie 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • Book Lovers by Emily Henry 🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • Airframe by Michael Chrichton 🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • White Teeth by Zadie Smith 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

  • The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
  • Call it Sleep by Henry Roth 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹


MY RATING SYSTEM

I switched to using roses for my rating system, since this is Rose City Reader. My rating system is my own and evolving. Whatever five stars might mean on amazon, goodreads, or Netflix, a five-rose rating probably doesn't mean that here. My system is a mix of how a book subjectively appeals to me, its technical merits, and whether I would recommend it to other people.

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 Five roses for books I loved, or would recommend to anyone, or I think are worthy of classic "must read" status." Examples would be Lucky Jim (personal favorite), A Gentleman in Moscow (universal recommendation), and Great Expectations (must read).

🌹🌹🌹🌹 Four roses for books I really enjoyed and/or would recommend to people who enjoy that type of book. So I give a lot of four roses because I might really like a book, but it didn't knock my socks off. And while I'd recommend it to someone who likes that genre -- mystery, historical fiction, food writing, whatever -- I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who asked me for a "good book.".

🌹🌹🌹 Three roses for books I was lukewarm on or maybe was glad I read but wouldn't recommend.

🌹🌹 Two roses if I didn't like it. Lessons in Chemistry is an example, which proves how subjective my system is because lots of people loved that book. I found it cartoonish and intolerant. 

🌹 One rose if I really didn't like it. I don't know if I've ever rated a book this low. The Magus might be my only example and I read it before I started keeping my lists.

I use half roses if a book falls between categories. I can't explain what that half rose might mean, it's just a feeling.

Here is a link to the star rating system I used for years. I include it because the stars I used in years past meant something different than these roses, so if you look at my lists from past years, the ratings won't mean quite the same thing.






3 comments :

  1. I'm interested in reading Katherine - good to see you gave it 5 stars. A new author to me in 2022 was Alison Weir (British historian & author) and she credits Seton's book in giving her a love of history.
    In Order to Live was a book I read & loved in 2021 & The Scapegoat is another I'd like to read.
    Happy New Year & all the best for 2023!

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    1. Happy New Year to you too, Carol! Katherine was one of my Top 10 books of 2022. It was so good! I will look up Alison Weir because she is new to me.

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  2. Great stats with interesting books. I really enjoyed your list. I read Tender is the Night, Galileo's Daughter, The Master and Margarita, The Mirror and the Light, The Satanic Verses, North and South, and White Teeth and I still have Why French Women Don't Get Fat, The Lincoln Highway on my TBR list.

    My Statistics are here.

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