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The Best Books I Read in 2022

Note: that’s best books read but not necessarily written in 2022

Nothing beats a good read. Image by ThePixelman from Pixabay.

I read 37 books in 2022. That’s 15 fewer than 2021 but I didn’t want to rush through my reading so much. For 2023, I’ve challenged myself to read 40 books. I’ve already finished one, which I sneakily started at the end of 2022.

Here are the books I read, loved and recommended in 2022. They’re not new releases, just books from any time and genre I enjoyed reading.

Titles are listed in alphabetical order because I didn’t want to play favourites with my favourite books.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon is the story of an intellectually-disabled man called Charlie and a mouse called Algernon. Both undergo surgery to increase their intelligence and we follow their story through Charlie’s journal as his intelligence grows.

Flowers for Algernon is heartbreaking in many ways, particularly in its portrayal of how the world treats the intellectually disabled. But also in how the newly-intelligent Charlie is destined to wind up alienated.

You can read Flowers for Algernon as a short story or a novel. I read the novel.