Here it is! My top ten for 2022. As usual although not always, it’s half fiction and half non.
Nonfiction:
- Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics by Terry Golway
- The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von Rezzori
- The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski
- Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
- The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America by John Wood Sweet* **
Fiction:
- Skylark by Dezső Kosztolányi
- Troubles by J.G. Farrell
- The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- The Reprisal: A Novel by Laudomia Bonanni
- The Latinist: A Novel by Mark Prins*
*Published in 2022
**Thanks to
Catlady
Usually once I look at my top ten I discern a few themes, but they’re weak at best this year. Two nonfiction are New York City history (with honorable mention to the baseball book.
) None of the novels are set in America. It shocks me that only two, one fiction, one non, were written by women. Also surprising is that I read nine of them and listened to only one, the Hardy.
Excelsior!