Scallydandling about the books | A belated best of 2022 from Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 52 minutes ago.
2022 was a great reading year for me. Here's my whistlestop tour of the most enjoyable or memorable of the 172 books I finished in the year. Sorry it's a bit long. Do make use of the time stamps to focus on what interests you. And tell me your thoughts about any of these books too.
0:00 Intro
1:33 Top 5 poetry books
5:30 Top 3 plays
8:32 Top 4 graphic novels/comics
11:56 Top 5 non-fiction
17:00 Top 3 novels I reread
19:15 Top 5 classic novels
23:50 Top 5 backlist novels
29:32 Top 5 recent novels in translation
35:42 Top 5 recent novels in English
Books mentioned:
Paradiso, Dante Alighieri trans Robin Kirkpatrick
Goblin Market, Christina Rosetti
The Owl And The Nightingale, Simon Armitage
Pandemonium, Andrew McMillan
All The Names Given, Raymond Antrobus
Midsummers Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
Peeling, Kaite O'Reilly
The Grain Store, Natalia Vorozhbit trans Sasha Dugdale
The Arrival, Shaun Tan
Genu Omnibus, Tommaso Todesca, Alex Franquelli, Giulio Srabek Tomassy
Britten and Brulightly, Hannah Berry
The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui
Ghost In The Throat, Doireann Ni Griofa
Happening, Annie Ernaux trans Tanya Leslie
Uncomfortable Labels, Laura Kate Dale
Under The Sea Wind, Rachel Carson
Mountains Of the Mind, Robert MacFarlane
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
The Passion According to GH, Clarice Lispector trans Idra Novey
In This House of Brede, Rumer Godden
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes trans Edith Grossman
Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann trans Helen Lowe Porter
The Artificial Silk Girl, Irmgard Keun trans Kathie von Ankum
The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati trans Stuart Hood
Memed My Hawk, Yasar Kemal trans Edouard Roditi
One Moonlit Night, Caradog Pritchard trans Philip Mitchell
The Waiting Years, Fumiko Enchi trans John Bester
The Women of Tijucopapo, Marilene Felinto trans Irene Matthews
Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
Minor Detail, Adania Shibli trans Elisabethe Jacquette
The Anomaly, Herve Le Tellier trans Adriana Hunter
Brickmakers, Selva Almada trans Annie McDermott
Season of the Shadow, Leonora Miano trans Gila Walker
Disoriental, Negar Djevadi trans Tina Kover
Cold Enough For Snow, Jessica Au
Lean Fall Stand, Jon McGregor
Treacle Walker, Alan Garner
What Willow Says, Lynn Buckle
Companion Piece, Ali Smith
Booktube channels mentioned:
@tomlabooks3263
@BernasBookishAdventures
2022 was a great reading year for me. Here's my whistlestop tour of the most enjoyable or memorable of the 172 books I finished in the year. Sorry it's a bit long. Do make use of the time stamps to focus on what interests you. And tell me your thoughts about any of these books too.
0:00 Intro
1:33 Top 5 poetry books
5:30 Top 3 plays
8:32 Top 4 graphic novels/comics
11:56 Top 5 non-fiction
17:00 Top 3 novels I reread
19:15 Top 5 classic novels
23:50 Top 5 backlist novels
29:32 Top 5 recent novels in translation
35:42 Top 5 recent novels in English
Books mentioned:
Paradiso, Dante Alighieri trans Robin Kirkpatrick
Goblin Market, Christina Rosetti
The Owl And The Nightingale, Simon Armitage
Pandemonium, Andrew McMillan
All The Names Given, Raymond Antrobus
Midsummers Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
Peeling, Kaite O'Reilly
The Grain Store, Natalia Vorozhbit trans Sasha Dugdale
The Arrival, Shaun Tan
Genu Omnibus, Tommaso Todesca, Alex Franquelli, Giulio Srabek Tomassy
Britten and Brulightly, Hannah Berry
The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui
Ghost In The Throat, Doireann Ni Griofa
Happening, Annie Ernaux trans Tanya Leslie
Uncomfortable Labels, Laura Kate Dale
Under The Sea Wind, Rachel Carson
Mountains Of the Mind, Robert MacFarlane
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
The Passion According to GH, Clarice Lispector trans Idra Novey
In This House of Brede, Rumer Godden
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes trans Edith Grossman
Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann trans Helen Lowe Porter
The Artificial Silk Girl, Irmgard Keun trans Kathie von Ankum
The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati trans Stuart Hood
Memed My Hawk, Yasar Kemal trans Edouard Roditi
One Moonlit Night, Caradog Pritchard trans Philip Mitchell
The Waiting Years, Fumiko Enchi trans John Bester
The Women of Tijucopapo, Marilene Felinto trans Irene Matthews
Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
Minor Detail, Adania Shibli trans Elisabethe Jacquette
The Anomaly, Herve Le Tellier trans Adriana Hunter
Brickmakers, Selva Almada trans Annie McDermott
Season of the Shadow, Leonora Miano trans Gila Walker
Disoriental, Negar Djevadi trans Tina Kover
Cold Enough For Snow, Jessica Au
Lean Fall Stand, Jon McGregor
Treacle Walker, Alan Garner
What Willow Says, Lynn Buckle
Companion Piece, Ali Smith
Booktube channels mentioned:
@tomlabooks3263
@BernasBookishAdventures
