40 Books from 2022 You Need to Read in 2023

Bijal A Shah
42 min readDec 16, 2022

We’re almost at the end of 2022, here are the books we’ve loved this year across a variety of genres from literary fiction, true crime, business books to memoir and romance, mystery and thrillers, LGBTQIA+, political books, travel and cookbooks. Here are our final 40 books we loved this year. Any others that should be here? Do share what you loved this year!

Best Literature and Fiction Books of 2022

The Candy House (Literary Fiction) by Jennifer Egan

The Candy House (Literary Fiction) by Jennifer Egan

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan manages to dazzle us again with this deeply thoughtful novel about the meaning of memory and the search for privacy and authenticity in a world where technology is re-shaping everything we know and have known. Plus she brings back the very memorable characters from her previous book,A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan takes us back to 2010, where 40-year-old ambitious tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton and dad of four stumbles upon an exciting idea where we can share memories with each other by ‘owning your own consciousness’. Whilst it’s been a hit with many people, it’s not…

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Bijal A Shah

Bibliotherapist, author, poet & founder of Book Therapy - therapy using the power of literature: https://www.booktherapy.io/ and www.bit.ly/bibliotherapycourse