My Books of 2022

Another year passes at what feels like warp speed, and it seems like no time at all since I was writing my best of 2021. Another 190 books later and I have cobbled together a list of my favourite reads from the past year.  First up are some honourable mentions that I gave 4.5 stars to:

 

Nests – Susan Ogilvy

Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree – David George Haskell

The Nutmeg’s Curse – Amitav Ghosh

The Book Of Pebbles – Christopher Stocks

Silent Earth – Dave Goulson

Take My Hand – Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Living with Trees – Robin Walter

Before Mars – Emma Newman

Atlas Alone – Emma Newman

Ravilious: Wood Engravings – James Russell

This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends- Nicole Perlroth

The Ravens Nest – Sarah Thomas

 

And here are my five star reads:

Lost Dorset: The Towns David Burnett

Orchard: A Year In England’s – Eden Benedict MacDonald & Nicholas Gates

A Natural History Of The Future – Rob Dunn

Moneyland – Oliver Bullough

The Nanny State Made Me – Stuart Maconie

The Draw Of The Sea – Wyl Menmuir

The Book of Trespass – Nick Hayes

Smelling the Breezes – Ralph Izzard & Molly Izzard

 

And my book of 2022 was Field Notes – Maxim Peter Griffin

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4 Comments

  1. Jason Denness

    Excellent choice for book of the year

    • Paul

      Thank you!

  2. Liz Dexter

    What fabulous books. I highly rated The Book of Trespass myself.

    • Paul

      Thank you. Not as many five stars as 2021, but that is the way it goes sometimes.

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