My Top 10(ish) Books of 2022 

Thank you Russell for all the recommendations through the year... Wish you a very Happy and prosperous 2023! 😊

I've loved watching your videos this year Russell. Thank you for all the engaging bookish content & happy new year! 🙂

I loved Maps of our Spectacular Bodies too, and can't believe it didn't make the short list. I was considering They're Going to Love You in the shops yesterday. I put it down. I'll have to go back...

Thanks Russell, as usual you've caused my tbr to grow exponentially lol Hope 2023 is wonderful reading year for you

thanks russell...i hope you're dry and safe. am adding your top choices to my tbr...

Happy new year! Great rec as usual.

Great list! The Trees is definitely on my top ten list as well.

omg!! I just discovered your channel and I'm obsessed! our tastes in books overlap so much and I will be binging your videos for the next few weeks 🫡

Maps is my favourite book of the year and loved The Trees too. I will definitely check out They’re Going To Love You. Happy New Year Russell 🎉🎉❤️

Such a great list, Russell! I also adored The Trees, such a brilliant read! And I’m reading Our Missing Hearts at the moment and think it’s incredible, so totally see why it made your top list! You’ve popped a few more on my tbr so many thanks (I hadn’t actually even heard of They’re Going To Love You)🙏 hope you’re well x

I just picked up The Change from your recommendation. I love it! Great review. Thank you!

The Change = one of my favorite books of 2022 as well! This is first time I’ve heard it mentioned on booktube 🙌🏿 💚

I’ll definitely be reading The Change, and I’m adding your favorite to my tbr!

Young Mungo put me through all my feelings and was one of the few that made me properly cry. I have also just reserved The Change and the Trees from my library, you have sold the premise completely to me.

I have several of these on my TBR from your previous videos and must move them up to the front of the line. Address Unknown and Perish first. They’re Going to Love You would not be something I would normally choose, but since it’s your number one book, I will have to check it out! I loved Young Mungo. I think my number one read of the year is either Yonder by Jabari Asim or Ghost Town by David Chen. Happy New Year, Russell! I look forward to your 2023 videos.

Happy new year Russell 🎉 ✨️ 🍾 🥂

Lovely review - thank you!

I agree that The Trees definitely made a strong, necessary point brought all its related points . The usage of humor to make it digestible for people who previously had a different perspective of the meal = art.

Such a great list, can't wait to try some of them. Maps, The Trees, and Young Mungo all on my list and Trust very nearly was! Young Mungo was my book of the year - I think it's been massively overlooked and I demand justice for Mungo haha! The most beautiful love story.

Happy New Year and have a wonderful year ahead. 🤗

I really need to read Our Missing Hearts. The Trees made my list, too. Your videos inflate my TBR, lol.

Best wishes for a wonderful 2023! From México City 🙂

The Other Mother and They’re Going to Love You we’re not on my radar at all and I’m super excited to add them to my tbr!

Just added a bunch of these books to my list!

Happy New Year kind sir!!! All great books! I actually want to read all of them in 2023! As a side note! Emmett Till was murdered on August 28, 1955. So, we are looking at 68 years ago this August coming! Hope all is well!!! ❤️❤️❤️

The way you talk about each book makes all tittles look great, not enough time in our life’s for every recommendation unfortunately Basically everyone is talking about Maps of our spectacular bodies, that one I’m as didn’t to the list Happy new year, Russel :)

Great video, really enjoyed learning about your year in reading. I, too, read Perish by Dr. Watkins. To say I enjoyed it feels wrong to say given the subject matter, lol, but she definitely propelled me to the end. However, and maybe this happened with your reading, about two-thirds of the way through the novel, the trauma cascade was so all encompassing that it began to eat away at my suspension of disbelief. Did this happen with you? As if she needed to turn down the trauma dial from 11 to 7, you know? Enjoy your videos and I hope you have a great 2023 reading year (hoping you read Andrew Miller’s The Slowworm’s Song at some point as I’d be interested in your thoughts). Happy New Year!🎉

Great list! Just subscribed and added a few of these to my Goodreads list. My favorites list for 2022 (in no order): 1. The Green Mile by Stephen king 2. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeannette McCurdy 3. Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine 4. The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent 5. House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 6. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky 7. Wild Swans by Jung Chang 8. Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates 9. Childhoods End by Aurthur C. Clarke

Our only overlap in the top ten is Young Mungo, which was my one number one this year, although I did read a few others on your list as well. I’m definitely checking out Address Unknown in the new year. I too am am reading less YA, but trying to keep up on LGBTQ+ YA regardless. If you haven’t checked out When You Call My Name about two high school senior boys in NYC at the height of the AIDS crisis it’s worth a look. Interestingly, My Government Means to Kill Me could easily been marketed as YA as well and covers similar, but very different ground.

Demon Copperhead made top of my list, I thought it was terrific.

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Read in 2022 was 52 books in 52 weeks. 1) "The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollope 2) "Can You Forgive Her?" by Anthony Trollope 3) "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro 4) "Mark Twain: A Life" by Rom Powers 5) "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain 6) "The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain 7) "The End of the Affair" by Graham Greene 8) "Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady" by Samuel Richardson 9) "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark 10) "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote 11) "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" by Raymond Carver 12) "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy 13) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy 14) "Master and Man" by Leo Tolstoy 15) "A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy 16) "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy 17) "The Raid" by Leo Tolstoy 18) "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs 19) “In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 20) "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by Victor Hugo 21) "Clara Militch" by Ivan Turgenev 22) "Mumu" by Ivan Turgenev 23) "Kassyan of Fair Springs" by Ivan Turgenev 24) "The Portrait Game" Ivan Turgenev 25) " Punin and Baburin" by Ivan Turgenev 26) "The Inn" by Ivan Turgenev 27) "The Watch" by Ivan Turgenev 28) "Acia" by Ivan Turgenev 29) "Home of the Gentry" by Ivan Turgenev 30) "On the Eve" by Ivan Turgenev 31) "Rudin" by Ivan Turgenev 32) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev 33) "First Love" by Ivan Turgenev 34) "The Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev 35) "How Russians Meet Death" by Ivan Turgenev 36) "Sketches from a Hunter's Album" by Ivan Turgenev 37) "Volodya" by Anton Chekhov 38) "Ward No. 6" by Anton Chekhov 39) "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekov 40) "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" by Alexander Pushkin 41) "The Captain's Daughter" by Alexander Pushkin 42) “Le Grand Meaulnes, or the Lost Domain” by Alain-Fournier 43) "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 44) "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 45) "Flipped" by Wendelin Van Draanen 46) "Kolyma Tales" by Varlam Shalamov 47) "An Island Hell" by S. A. Malsagoff 48) "The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy 49) "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy 50) “Strait is the Gate” by André Gide 51) “And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer” by Fredrik Backman 52) “Middlemarch” by George Eliot I have begun for 2023 to read plenty. 1) "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens 2) "The Warden" by Anthony Trollope 3) "Agnes Grey" by Anne Brontë 4) "The 39 Steps" by John Buchan 5) "The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe" by John Toland 6) "Pamela, or, Virtue rewarded" by Samuel Richardson 7) "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë 8) "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery 9) "The Moon Is Down" by John Steinbeck 10) "The Princess" by Anton Chekhov 11) "What Men Live by" by Leo Tolstoy 12) "How Much Land does a Man Need" by Leo Tolstoy 13) "The Life and Ministry of Rev. Ivan Voronaev" by Dony K. Donev 14) "Less Than Zero" by Bret Easton Ellis Currently reading "Vilette" by Charlotte Bronte.

Good afternoon. The Trees was also my number two book. My number one book was The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak. I loved it. If you enjoyed The Trees I found Anywhere You Run by Wanda M Morris. It's so very good.

THE TREES was the last book I read for 2022. I’ll probably be thinking about it for the rest of 2023. Everett is an incredible writer. Brilliant!

Rec for you for more mature gay YA: All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown. Strong characters, amazing pacing, and somehow romance and humour mixed perfectly with deeply affecting postpandemic trauma.

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My three overlaps with my best of list are Young Mungo Trust The Trees Others on my best of list are Demon Copperhead The Lacuna The Poisonwood Bible Oh William! Lessons in Chemistry Foster by Claire Keegan Tresspasses by Louise Kennedy Take My Hand The Colony by Audrey Magee Elena Knows Devotion by Hannah Kent The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Early Morning Riser War Doctor by David Nott The Innocents by Michael Crummey The Sleep Walkers Guide to Dancing The Arsonists City After The Parade by Lori Ostlund What Willow Says Interpreter of Maladies The Rain Heron Labyrinth The Garden of Evening Mists A Thousand Acres The Performance Happy New Year Russell 🎉🍀👋☘️🤩🥳🤗📚☕️📕📖

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