Top 10 Books of 2022 📚🤩

[timetoread]

The Days of Abandonment is one of my fav books of all time. Absolutely fantastic. Hope you have some great reads in 2023!!

[curioushmm]

love your enthusiasm....happy new year juan...hope you find many more books to love.

[Paromita_M]

Great list. Happy New Year!
Some of my top reads were:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien

[RekindledReader]

Amazing, Juan! I'm reading lots of Hobb this year, so this was fun to watch :)

[RedFuryBooks]

I love the Robin Hobb gush fest! I support and endorse it all haha! A few thoughts:
-I'm saving the Inheritance for awhile, until I have total Robin Hobb withdrawal symptoms!
-I think I mentioned to you that I'll be reading Soldier Son with some others this summer, but I also have a booktube friend that mentioned that he thinks it's THE best thing Hobb has written!
-I gave Fool's Quest 5-stars only for the scene that began with a character saying "It's time, Fitz." I bawled my eyes out in that chapter.
-You are SO RIGHT about the ending of it all. It took me 30 minutes to read the final 3 pages because I was so emotionally wrecked by the penultimate chapter. Queen Hobb!

[zezeest.]

I love that Robin Hobb dominated your list. That happened to me too in the years that I read her books. And love to see you read the Inheritance as well. The last story in it was my favorite as it seemed to be a prequel of sorts telling us how folks settled in the Rain Wilds. I have mixed feelings about the Soldier Son books. I LOVED the first one, wasn’t crazy about the second, and got a little mad at the third, so I’d love to hear what you think of the trilogy as a whole. I’ll certainly look up that Bookworm book. You’ve sold me on it. And as for my favorite of the year, it’s Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s a sci-fi novella and the story is told from two perspectives. I love the structure since we get both POVs of a situation at the same time on the same page. It’s a good read and very interesting. I highly recommend it.

[gao]

Happy New Year, Juan! Look forward to more explorations in 2023!

[raquelh]

I really want to start read ing Robin Hobb and happy New Year Juan !!

[Johanna_reads]

Wow, I never hear of Hobb's other books outside of The Realm of the Elderlings, and I'm glad to hear your praise for those! Wonderful list!

[arredondoleti]

Felicidades y éxito en el 2023, por mas buenas lecturas! Por favor recomendaciones para comenzar lecturas en inglés y guía de lectura de RH. Un abrazo! 🎉

[GinaStanyerBooks]

Happy new year Juan! I’ve been sick so I am hoping to do my wrap up next eeek. We’ll see, it’s been a tough month.
So happy to see your list. I’ve got to read some other Hobbs! (She lives about an hour from me and I can’t believe I haven’t stalked her yet LOL)
It’s great to see all your various backgrounds recently. So gorgeous.

[Oxigenorik]

Happy New Year Juan! I finished 2022 yesterday by completing Assassin's Apprentice and I cannot wait to get through the Realm of the Elderlings this year. I was instantly captivated by Hobb's beautiful writing and character work and I just know I will love the rest of the series too. It fills me with a lot of excitement to hear you sing the praises of Hobb's work! 😊❤️

[curtjarrell]

I haven't summarized my 2022 reading as of yet, but the current book I'd choose for my favorite this year if you asked me today would be The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Happy reading and Happy New Year.

[leopercara]

Hello, Juan. Great list. Here is mine.

1- The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas: Everybody is an asshole, but this is filled with empathetic characters.
2- A Reader's Manifesto by B.R. Myers: A lot of uncomfortable truths about giant writers that are still going strong.
3- The Claverings by Anthony Trollope: The best soap opera ever, after Gilmore Girls.
4- Dracula by Bram Stoker: Best villain, and best old man giving advice and taking charge.
5- Northmen by John Haywood: Great overview of the vikings.
6- An Experiment in Criticism by C.S. Lewis: A long essay about what makes a good and bad reader, and how it influences the books that we read.
7- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry: So good that goes beyond any conventions of the western genre.
8- The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien: World War II in a pre-industrial fantastical England.
9- Cultural Amnesia by Clive James: Every single essay is a masterpiece.
10- An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine: Deeply sad, but unbelievably funny.

[amusicalbookworm]

Well if this video won’t remind me to read more Robin Hobb, nothing will! 😂 I got the illustrated edition of Assassin’s Apprentice for Christmas… I’ve read it but never continued the series (because life happened). This video made me feel shameful that I haven’t continued yet 😂😂

[BokObsessed]

I have not read robin Hobbs. Which series would you suggest?