I wanted to take a look at some of my favorite reads of the year. I had a wonderful year of reading. I hope you did too. 

Nonfiction

I managed to read 29 nonfiction books this year, and these were my favorites:

Dopesick by Beth Macy

You Can’t Be Serious by Kal Penn

Winter Pasture by Li Juan

Made in China by Anna Qu

Savor by Fatima Ali 

We Were Dreamers by Simu Liu

Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders

Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson

Speculative Fiction

Here are my favourite speculative fiction reads of 2022. 

Here we have:
⭐️ Amari and the Night Brothers – B.B. Alston 
⭐️ Kaiju Preservation Society – John Scalzi
⭐️ The Starfarers Quartet – Vonda N. McIntyre
⭐️ Sea of Tranquility – Emily St John Mandel
⭐️ Hunt the Stars – Jessie Mihalik 
⭐️ The Book Eaters – Sunyi Dean
⭐️ A Deadly Education – Naomi Novik
⭐️ The Last Graduate – Naomi Novik 
⭐️ The Golden Enclaves – Naomi Novik

With these books, I escaped to parallel worlds and other universes, braving mals and kaiju, meeting telepaths and magicians. What a whirlwind year of reading fantasy and science fiction! 

Translated Books

These were my favourite translated books. I read 37 translated books this year, and featured two already in the section on nonfiction reads. 

Here are my favourites, which happen to all be written by women: 

🔹 The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong
🔹 Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong
🔹 The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo, translated by Chi-Young Kim
🔹 The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura, translated by Lucy North
🔹 Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Asa Yoneda 

Remarkable Reads

These are the rest of the books that stuck to me, whether because of unforgettable characters, setting, plot, beautiful writing or a combination of all.

▪️Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So
▪️Joan is Okay by Weike Wang
▪️Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall 
▪️Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
▪️Himawari House by Harmony Becker 
▪️XOXO by Axie Oh 
▪️Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean
▪️If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
▪️When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill 
▪️The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh 
▪️Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
▪️Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo