A Year of Reading: 2022, Part 1

This doesn’t purport to be a list of the “best” books of the year; rather, these are the ones from a year of reading that most readily come to mind. (The rules stipulate that only titles published in 2022 are eligible. That means I can’t include Rhonda Ortiz’s delicious historical novel In Pieces, which I read this summer but which was published in 2021. Fortunately a sequel is scheduled to appear early next year.) As I type this on my laptop, legs extended on a venerable reclining chair, I am quite literally surrounded by books