The demands of my day job meant that I read fewer books in 2022 than I have in previous years. I know that’s no real excuse, but it’s the only one I have and I’m sticking to it. That and Barkskins, which crawled by at a snail’s pace and took me about three months to finish. I must admit I was slightly disappointed with Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club, too, given that I’d heard so many good things about it. There were just too many characters who kept popping up willy-nilly and then disappearing just as fast.
Pick of the year is probably Florence De Changy’s The Disappearing Act: The Impossible case of MH370. Things like that just shouldn’t happen in this day and age. Unless they are supposed to happen.
Stranded by Bracken Macleod (2016)
The Legend of the Dogman by David C Posthumus (2022)
Terror Peak by Edward J McFadden III (2022)
HH Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil by Adam Selzer (2019)
Springsteen: The Mojo Collector’s Series by Various Authors (2021)
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (2021)
The Purisima Hauntings by Hazel Holmes (2022)
The Disappearing Act: The Impossible case of MH370 by Florence De Changy (2021)
The Very Best of Classic Rock by Various Authors (2022)
Mothman: Return to Point Pleasant by Scott Donnelly (2022)
My Life in Dire Straits by John Illsey (2021)
The Ghosts of Hexley Airport by Amy Cross (2022 version)
Barkskins by Annie Proulx (2016)
Out of Time by Various Authors (2022)
Underneath by Robbie Dorman (2019)
The 27 Club by Lucy Nichol (2021)
The Golden Key by J. Keiller (2022 version)
You can see last year’s list here.
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January 3rd, 2023 at 4:33 pm
Oooh, I want to check out that White City book…I’m fascinated by World’s Fairs and things (I have a big old book–well, it’s a bunch of loose pages that used to be a book–of the World’s Fair in Chicago–picture plates and all that. If that made any sense…I probably shouldn’t be writing anything online the week following New Year’s Day! So…very…tired…Ha!)
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January 3rd, 2023 at 5:20 pm
That book was pretty weird. The author tried to underplay everything. It was all like… “People think HH Holmes was some kind of nutjob serial killer, but he wasn’t really THAT bad. They claim he bludgeoned his victim in the head with a hammer seventeen times, when in actual fact, the evidence shows that he only hit him eleven times.”
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