The Best of 2021-2022

Of all 104 books I read this last twelve months, here are the ones I enjoyed the most (in no particular order):

• The Witch and the Tsar, by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Path of Thorns, by Angela Slatter
• Kaikeyi, by Vaishnavi Patel
• Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, by Amanda Montell
• Nettle & Bone, by T. Kingfisher
• The Old Woman with the Knife, by Gu Byeong-Mo
• Bullet Train, by Kōtarō Isaka
• When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East, by Quan Barry
• Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age, by Dennis Duncan
• The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich
• The Latinist, by Mark Prins
• The God of Lost Words, by A.J. Hackwith