Top 2022 #BookReviews (and #Goodreads rundown)

I love reading. I prefer to do that than watch TV, go to the gym, floss my teeth, pay bills, or wash the laundry. I review a lot of the books I read, usually received from NetGalley, the library, Kindle Unlimited, or an Indie efriend, but I also buy quite a few. I collect my writing book reviews here and my education ones here. When I read, I choose thrillers, historical fiction, education (for my other passion), and then anything else.

Here are the top ten reviews–ranked by you–for 2022 (in alphabetic order):

1. Hues of Hope by Balroop Singh
2. Innerscape trilogy by acFlory
3. Linda’s Midlife Crisis by Toni Pike
4. The Necromancer’s Daughter by Diana Peach
5. Searching for Home by Jill Weatherholt
6. Robbie Cheadle’s Sir Chocolate series
7. Sierra Six by Mark Greaney
8. A Voice in the Silence by DL Finn
9. Where Shall I Flee by Anne Clare
10. The Winding Road: A Journey of Survival by Miriam Hurdle

I read 189 books according to Goodreads.

This included a whole lot of Indie and blogging efriend books. Any you like or have also read?

 

My Top Ten list is completely different. I admit–my taste is unlike most people so this next list doesn’t reflect ‘popular’ as much as ‘personal taste’:

1. Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery
2. The Jess Williams Westerns series by Robert Thomas
3. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
4. The Life and Times of Le Bronco von der Lowenhohle: Stories and Tips from Thirteen Years with a Leonberger by Thomas Wikman
5. The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs by Tristan Gooley
6. Mateo’s Blood Brother by Sandra Cox
7. No Plan B by Lee Child
8. Racing the Light by Robert Crais
9. Vera Stanhope series by Ann Cleeves
10. Weathered: Finding Strength on the John Muir Trail by Christy Teglo

–A note: Some thriller authors who usually show up on my ‘favorites’ list fell off because in their latest books, they found it necessary to lecture me on politics. Most of those I didn’t finish.

Curious how I turned the Goodreads image into a GIF:

1. 1. 1. Record a video using a free screencast program like Screencast-o-matic.
      2. Save as an MP4.
      3. Add the MP4 to a PowerPoint slide.
      4. Save the ‘slideshow’ (of one slide) as a GIF.
      5. Add to your blog!

Oh–one more thing. I’d love for you to follow me on social media. Here’re my handles:

Twitter: @worddreams

Instagram: JacquiMurrayWriter

LinkedIn: Jacqui Murray

Since I read about three books a week, I’m always eager for new material. What’s your favorite book from 2022?

Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work:

https://forms.aweber.com/form/87/838503387.htm.

Copyright ©2023 worddreams.wordpress.com – All rights reserved.

---

Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular prehistoric fiction saga, Man vs. Nature which explores seminal events in man’s evolution one trilogy at a time. She is also the author of the Rowe-Delamagente thrillers and Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. Her non-fiction includes over a hundred books on integrating tech into education, reviews as an Amazon Vine Voice,  a columnist for NEA Today, and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. Look for her next prehistoric fiction, Savage Land, Winter 2024.

Advertisement