2022 Reading: The Fiction

For some reason, this wasn't a big fiction reading year for me. Perhaps my tastes are changing.

Checkmarks below indicate a hearty recommendation. 

I want to recommend The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, but fairly or unfairly, I keep comparing it to his first novel Rules of Civility, which I *really* loved. I'd also recommend The Thorn Birds, but the Justine section, which is the last 100+ pages of the novel is Such. A. Slog.

January

Billy Summers - Stephen King

Matrix - Lauren Groff ✅

Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff

February

Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Maria Semple

March

The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles

Mrs. March - Virginia Feito

The Dressmaker - Kate Alcott

April

The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock ✅

French Braid - Anne Tyler ✅

Ocean State - Stewart O'Nan ✅

May

The Leavers - Lisa Ko ✅

June

Pretty Baby - Mary Kubica

Vinegar Girl - Anne Tyler ✅

The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough

July

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver ✅

August

A View of the Harbour - Elizabeth Taylor ✅

Lady Cop Makes Trouble - Amy Stewart ✅

My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh

Bluebird, Bluebird - Attica Locke

Girl Waits With Gun - Amy Stewart ✅

September

Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions - Amy Stewart ✅

True Biz - Sara Novic ✅

Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit - Amy Stewart ✅

The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven - Nathaniel Ian Miller

October

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak ✅

Daisy Jones and The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid ✅

Little Man, What Now? - Hans Fallada

November

The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck ✅

December

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Overall favorite: The Kopp Sisters series

DNF: Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver (but I plan to take it up again in 2023. Just ran out of time with my library checkout and there was/is a waitlist. And my name is back upon it.)