What I read in 2022

Reading is my absolute favourite thing to do. If I had my way, I would have a lot more spare time and I would spend all of it reading. Not watching TV, not scrolling social media, just reading books.

After a good year of reading in 2021, 2022 looked set to be another one. I started my third book of the year on 6th January. But thanks to it being a VERY long book, having a lot of work on and a new puppy, I was still reading it nearly a month later. Maybe I wouldn’t read as much in 2022?

I got Covid in June and spent six days in isolation, reading three entire books in that time, which helped to get my reading back on track. I then read six books and started a seventh in July.

I got through about four books per month through August, September and October. Then my reading slowed down a bit in November when I had a lot of work on.

So what did I read in 2022?

• The Familiars by Stacey Halls
• Don’t Laugh, It’ll Only Encourage Her by Daisy May Cooper
• Tombland by C J Sansom
• The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
• The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
• Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes
• Our Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent
• Vaxxers by Professor Sarah Gilbert & Dr Catherine Green
• Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
• Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
• Mrs England by Stacey Halls
• Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
• Still Life by Sarah Winman
• The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary
• Watch Her Fall by Erin Kelly
• Blood & Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
• Meredith, Alone by Claire Alexander
• Mustn’t Grumble by Graham Lawton
• The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
• The Slow Lane Walkers Club by Rosa Temple
• Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah
• Snap by Belinda Bauer
• Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
• The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
• Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
• Holding by Graham Norton
• Magpie by Elizabeth Day
• The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh
• Woman of a Certain Rage by Georgie Hall
• The Jealousy Man by Jo Nesbo
• The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith
• The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
• Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal
• Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
• The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
• Lily by Rose Tremain
• Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce
• A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin
• A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon
• A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin
• Dog Days by Ericka Waller
• Keep Her Safe by Jen Faulkner
• The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen
• Dead Man’s Creek by Chris Hammer
• Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
• The People Next Door by Tony Parsons

That is a total of 48 books for the year, which is the exact same number I read in 2021 and more than I read in previous years.

I read some really good books in 2022 and it was very hard to pick my favourites. Genuinely, nearly half of these could have made my favourite reads list. If you want to know which books came close, check out my Favourite books board on Pinterest.

But after a lot of deliberation, I decided that my favourite books of 2022 were:

• The Ink Black Heart
• Lessons in Chemistry
• Still Life
• Daughters of Night
• The Last Party