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
Excellent choice for book of the year
Thank you!
What fabulous books. I highly rated The Book of Trespass myself.
Thank you. Not as many five stars as 2021, but that is the way it goes sometimes.