Everyone else’s favourite books of the year lists (2022 edition)

27 December 2022

I read a lot of blogs by a lot of people who read a lot of books. At this time of the year it is the custom to do a census of all the books they have they read and then share that list with everyone else. For the last few years (2021, 2020, 2018), I’ve been collecting all those lists in one place – here (actually two places – here’s a twitter thread of it). I find these lists helpful because it forms the often unrealistic basis of my next year of reading. I’ll put that together soon.

As Tyler Cowen says, “A good list has never been more valuable, and please note my recommendations are never done to fill a quota, “achieve balance,” right previous wrongs, or whatever. They are what I think are the best books. Scary how rare that has become.”

Time invested in reading is time well spent and the sharing of books is a tradition we shouldn’t ever lose. Books should be read and re-read. They will broaden your horizons, transport you to other worlds, they will inform, entertain, absorb, change you, move you and grow you. Books make a life!

Peter Mead has an excellent post with 10 suggestions on thinking about, using, giving and reading books.

On to the lists (which I’ll update until the end of the year) so if you see an updated post – then there’s a new list of books.