Thursday, January 05, 2023

Booklist 2022

1.    The Search: a biography of Leo Tolstoy -- Sara Newton Carroll

2.    The Buddha in the Attic -- Julie Otsuka

3.    Silverview -- John le Carré

4.    Snow Angels -- Stewart O'Nan

5.    The Blue Guitar -- John Banville

6.    Great House -- Nicole Krauss

7.    Glory -- Vladimir Nabokov

8.    You Think It, I'll Say It -- Curtis Sittenfeld

9.    Ethan Frome -- Edith Wharton

10.    Life Without Children -- Roddy Doyle

11.    Why Peacocks? an unlikely search for meaning in the world's most magnificent bird -- Sean Flynn

12.    The Last Painting of Sara de Vos -- Dominic Smith

13.    The Employees -- Olga Ravn, tr. by Martin Aitken

14.    Wayward -- Dana Spiotta

15.    Year of the Monkey -- Patti Smith

16.    By Nightfall -- Michael Cunningham

17.    Ocean State -- Stewart O'Nan

18.    Time Is a Mother -- Ocean Vuong

19.    Forest Dark -- Nicole Krauss

20.    Gap Creek the story of a Marriage -- Robert Morgan

21.    Leave the World Behind -- Rumaan Alam

22.    The Vanishing Act of Esmé Lennox -- Maggie O'Farrell

23.    The Lost Family: how DNA testingis upending who we are -- Libby Copeland

24.    The Black Snow -- Paul Lynch

25.    Elegy for April -- Benjamin Black

26.    Learning to Talk -- Hilary Mantel

27.    Something to Do with Paying Attention -- David Foster Wallace

28.    Enon -- Paul Harding

29.    Whereabouts -- Jhumpa Lahiri

30.    Dreaming in Cuban -- Cristina Garcia

31.    Unaccustomed Earth -- Jhumpa Lahiri

32.    Ghost Light -- Joseph O'Connor

33.    Eventide -- Kent Haruf

34.    Noboy's Normal: how culture created the stigma of mental illness -- Roy Richard Grinker

35.    The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri -- David Bajo

36.    The Slap -- Christos Tsiolkas

37.    The Comedian -- Joseph O'Connor 


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