My Top Fiction Books of the Year- 2022!

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Hi, I'm Bob, and here are my top fiction books of 2022!
It's been a wonderful reading year for me, and I would love to hear your top books too!
All my best,
Bob
Books Mentioned:
00:00 Introduction
01:37 Geetanjali Shree- Tomb of Sand (tr. Daisy Rockwell)
03:58 Claudia Piñeiro- Elena Knows (tr. Frances Riddle)
05:48 Ryan O'Connor- The Voids
07:48 Douglas Stuart- Young Mungo
10:02 Pajtim Statovci- Bolla (tr. David Hackston)
13:03 Audrey Magee- The Colony
16:09 Selby Wynn Schwartz- After Sappho
17:52 Graeme Macrae Burnet- Case Study
20:11 Sara Baume- Seven Steeples
21:54 Yara Rodrigues Fowler- there are more things
26:47 Sam Kenyon- I Am Not Raymond Wallace
29:57 Andrea Mayo- The Carnivorous Plant (tr. Laura McLoughlin)
33:17 End Discussion
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Комментарии : 76

@nono-wr5nq Год назад

Please never stop reviewing books. I love the way you express your thoughts, and I love that you give the spotlight to books that I otherwise wouldn't have heard of. You deserve so much more recognition

@loriwald9532 Год назад

100% agree! I subscribed and will be checking out older posts too.

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Ahh, thank you so much! That’s so lovely of you (both) to say!

@nono-wr5nq Год назад

@@BobTheBookerer Of course:)

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

What a great reading year and wonderful to hear your passion for all these books. I’m glad you found Bolla such a striking book as well and I’m so curious about The Carnivorous Plant with its unique way of telling. So many great indie presses! Yes, reading is great! 📚

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Thank you so much! There are so many great books out there that just picking 12 feels churlish, but it was such a lovely year!

@benreadsgood Год назад

A wonderful list - thank you for sharing! Bolla and I am not Raymond Wallace are both going on my ‘want to read’ list.

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Thank you so much! And ooh, enjoy! They’re such interesting reads!

@readingwithavengeance Год назад

Wow, great reading year! A lot of these books I’ve never heard of so thank you for sharing ❤

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

My pleasure! And thank you so much!

@jacquelinemcmenamin8204 Год назад

Elena Knows Young Mungo The Colony Are on my list of bests of 2022 also. Others are Demon Copperhead The Lacuna The Poisonwood Bible ( my Barbara Kingsolver phase ) Foster by Claire Keegan Tresspasses by Louise Kennedy War Doctor by David Nott Oh William! Early Morning Riser The Innocents by Michael Crummey The SleepWalkers Guide to Dancing Arsonists City The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Interpreter of Maladies Lessons in Chemistry After The Parade by Lori Ostlund Devotion by Hannah Kent The Trees What Willow Says Take My Hand The Rain Heron A Thousand Acres The Garden of Evening Mists Labyrinth The Performance Lots of backlist books on my list. I now will add more to my TBR from your list. What are your plans for 2023? Do you have a nonfiction list? 🍀👋☘️📚☕️📖📕🤩🤗

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Ooh, what a fab list! So many of those very nearly made my list too (or made backlist lists before!)

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

And I do have a non-fiction list- I don’t think I can link in a comment without it being deleted, but I posted it just before Christmas!

@CharlieBrookReads Год назад

For yearly favourites I always find it funny how books you think will be there sometimes fade and then other books just linger with the characters & the stories echoing around your mind. Such a great list Bob!! The Voids, Plec, The Carnivorous Plant esp although any book on your list I will take note of 📚❤️

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Absolutely! It’s wild how much it shifts over the year! If you’d asked me just after I finished the Booker longlist, it would have been a slightly different picture! And thanks! I hope you enjoy those!

@loriwald9532 Год назад

SUBSCRIBED! Loved your content and delivery. 😊❤

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Thank you so much, Lori! :)

@scrennen Год назад

Really loved seeing Young Mungo on your list! Just finished it and loved it a lot. Loved the tenderness in Stuart's writing and the depth of his characters.

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Yes! Such a beautiful book, isn’t it? I was really impressed by how full of heart it all was!

@bookishbedlam Год назад

A bunch of these are on my TBR for 2023. Happy New Year!

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Ooh, exciting, which ones? And Happy New Year!

@bookishbedlam Год назад

@@BobTheBookerer I have Tomb of Sand, The Voids, Young Mungo, The Colony, and Case Study lined up.

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

@@bookishbedlam oooh, enjoy! I think you’re in for a treat!

@LarryHasOpinions Год назад

yay bolla! :-D great to hear your top books for the year, i've added a couple to my list :-)

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Thank you! And yeah! Let me know if I can lend you any of them!

@Shellyish Год назад

Seven Steeples sounds fascinating! I want to read it now. 😊

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Yes! It’s so cool, and really forces you to slow down and watch the scenery!

@ioanna. Год назад

Great video Bob! The Swimmers, Black Cake, Nightcrawling, Seven Moons and Now is not the Time to Panic were some of my favourites this year. Thanks for sharing yours. Am going to be starting The Void sometime soon 😊

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Thank you! Ooh, I haven’t read three of those but I’ve been eyeing up the first two! Thanks!

@readandre-read Год назад

Great list! I need to add Elena Knows and Seven Steeples to my list! I agree that The Colony should have made the shortlist. I'm still trying to finalize my best of list, figuring out which ones had the most staying power for me.

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Thank you so much! Yes! Staying power is such a big part of it- I felt weird about it at first because there were a few I had given 4 stars to at the time, but which really stuck with me!

@wavaleebranch Год назад

Thank you!!!!

@CharlieBrookReads Год назад

Excited to see what’s on here!! 0:14 🥰

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Thank you!

@curioushmm9027 Год назад

reading is great!!!

@emmavd Год назад

Thank you, Bob!🌷The Colony is also among my best reads of 2022 and I totally agree on it deserving the Booker (or at least being shortlisted)😢. Among my favourites I would also mention, in no particular order, Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees, Sarah Winman’s Still Life, Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence, Jocelyne Saucier’s And the Birds Rained Down, Primo Levi’s The Wrench, Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy by the Sea (loved the audiobook), Elsa Morante’s Arturo’s Island, Yoko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor, Ruth Ozeki’s The Book of Form and Emptiness. I have Tomb of Sand on my TBR for 2023. I am intrigued by After Sappho, There are more Things, and I am not Raymond Wallace. Thanks for your great reviews throughout 2022 and Happy New Year to you too!!!

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Thank you! Ooh, that’s such a fab set of books! And happy new year!

@rhyst124 Год назад

Case Study, so good.

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

So good, right?!

@SpringboardThought Год назад

The Colonnnnny so good. Loved it immensely. And Young Mungo! And Bolla. So many great ones here. Actually, I think I’ve read all of the ones I can get over here, for once~!

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Yessssssssss. Aha, nice! Go you!

@AnaMoShoshin Год назад

Reading IS Great! Very fun to hear your thoughts on all your favorites in 2022! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! (PS - you made a cameo in my dream last night as a bartender on a cruise ship! Does that mean I'm watching too much booktube??)

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Thank you! And you, I hope you’re having a good festive period! Ahahah, that’s hilarious! I would be an awful bartender, so I hope Bartender Bob was better!

@lorimiller854 Год назад

Loved listening to your best fiction list. Added a few to my list (aka my trying to have a little self control list). I have Elena Knows on my shelves and am going to read it after my current book. Don't think I've heard anything negative about it.

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Ahah, self control with TBRs is so important 😂 But yes, Elena Knows is one of those books that I think is just so successful at what it does that it seems to work for loads of people!

@RovingReader Год назад

Elena Knows made my list too!!! ❤❤❤

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Yay! I’ve really found myself thinking about it a lot this year!

@kelseywood174 Год назад

I really really want to order Tomb of Sand after hearing you talk about it! It's not available for purchase on Google play until January 31st so I may pre order it! I bought Elena Knows after hearing quite a few people say how good it is. I am excited to read that one as well. And I will definitely be reading Young Mungo, because Shuggie Bain is one of my all time favorites!

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Ahh, I hope you enjoy it whenever you can read it! Elena Knows is fab, I hope you enjoy that and Young Mungo!

@MoreToSan Год назад

Tomb of Sand is definitely going to my tbr!

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

It’s such a joy to read! I hope you like it!

@HowardsHaunt Год назад

Thanks as always. Noted a few I hadn’t heard of. My favourite this year has been Emily Austin’s Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead. Highly recommend that if you haven’t read it yet.

@HowardsHaunt Год назад

The Carnivorous Plant has gone straight to the top of my TBR

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Oooh, I’ve not read that one, but I keep seeing it about! Thanks!

@JenniMReads Год назад

I don't really read that many new books, but a few of these are on my tbr. Bolla is the only one of these I've read (back in 2020 in Finnish) and that was such a great book. My book group read it, and they are mostly old age pensioners, so I was a bit worried going into the discussion. But we ended up having a great conversation! The brutality of the book was a bit much for some people, but everyone loved how well Statovci had portrayed the relationships in this book.

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Ooh nice! And glad Bolla worked in that group- it’s such a fascinating book, and yeah, he’s so good at conveying it all.

@SavidgeReads Год назад

Fabulous list. Do you have a standout favourite? I might have missed it as you were keeping me company sorting my wardrobe, what delightful company you were! I definitely want to read Sam Kenyon and Yara Rodrigues Fowler, I loved her debut!

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Thank you! Ooh, good question! Quite possibly Tomb of Sand or Elena Knows! Aha, happy to have been company! Ooh, yes! YRF’s debut was fun! This one feels like a real development of that style!

@barbarahelgaker390 Год назад

In my top ten I also had the Colony ( should have won, I agree!) , Elena Knows, Lucy by the Sea and Case Study

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Oh nice! Lucy By The Sea is probably my favourite of the 4 Amgash books!

@MarcNash Год назад

I like the sound of 7 Steeples. Has it got a similar vibe to Woolf's "To The Lighthouse"?

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Ooh, I hadn’t thought of it that way, but that’s a good comparison, in the sense of watching the minutiae change and picking up on the small details that reflect the world around them. I need to re-read that now!

@BookishTexan Год назад

Must read _Tomb of Sand_ and agree completely about _The Colony_. I couldn't get past my horror at the actions of the main character in _Bola_ .

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Yes! The Colony was so good- it’s really lingered for me! Tomb of Sand is such a fun ride! Oh gosh, yeah, the main character in Bolla is awful!

@janethansen9612 Год назад

It's so hard to choose the top books, I feel like my choices reflect mostly cosy reading this year. I didn't overlap with any of these though a couple came close. I still haven't finalised my list though.

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Definitely! Ooh, that’s a good thing indeed- I’ve not been very good at reading cosy books this year but I always forget how much joy they give me!

@AnnNovella Год назад

What? Nothing by Colleen Hoover? 😢😂

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

So nearly made the cut

@rudy679 Год назад

'Splishy-Sploshy'

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

‘Get that dirty shirty clean’ I am contractually obliged to mention Kate Bush at least once a month 😂

@onetrickpony381 Год назад

Bobbu you are the best dear! messy lgbtq characters? sign me up ;)

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Aha, thank you! Someone once asked me what book prize I would create if I could make my own, and it would definitely be some kind of prize for messy LGBTQ characters aha

@dqan7372 Год назад

I must be tired. When you said the books were in 'no particular order' my brain heard 'Moby Dick' order and just went with it. Almost made sense when you started with 'Tomb of Sand'. 🐳

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

Aha, oh bless! Moby Dick order would start out like a normal order, and then spend 20 minutes discussing facts about whales 😂