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Rachel’s Reads – December 2022

2022 Issues

The year is winding down, the weather outside is becoming chillier, and I can’t wait to curl up by the fire with a great book. As in past Decembers, I am continuing the tradition started several years ago of sharing my top books of the year. I hope you will see one of your favorites or will be inspired to pick up one of these. Maybe you will even find yourself reading by the fire, too!

Fiction
  • The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
  • Septology by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls
  • Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R. F. Kuang
  • Trust by Hernan Diaz
  • The Colony by Audrey Magee
Nonfiction
  • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke
  • Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle by Jody Rosen
  • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
  • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
  • What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill
Poetry
  • Alive At The End Of The World by Saeed Jones
  • Please Make Me Pretty, I Don’t Want to Die: Poems by Tawanda Mulalu
  • The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limón
  • Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
  • The Slain Birds by Michael Longley
Backlist
  • Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley
  • The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi
  • Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
  • Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer

There are many books I didn’t get to read this year, and I would love to hear from subscribers about their favorite books so I can add them to my never-ending “to be read” list. Please reach out with the books you loved this year, and I will share reader favorites in my January column. 

Happy Reading and Happy Holidays!

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