My favorite book of the year was the first one I read this year--Maggie Shipstead's
Great Circle, but it was published in 2021. Of the books published in 2022, my favorites, in the order I read them, are
Fiction (all historicals; my go-to suspense authors disappointed me this year):
- Last Dance on the Starlight Pier by Sarah Bird
- Little Souls by Sandra Dallas
- The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian
- The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan
- Ashton Hall by Lauren Belfer
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- Joan by Katherine J. Chen (included because it inspired me to go on a Joan of Arc binge)
Nonfiction:- The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America by John Wood Sweet
- The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
- Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman