10 Best Books of 2022 (so far...)

Anyway, this is me just having a conversation with myself about how I kind of read this book badly, but I'm putting it in my top 10 because she is wonderful. She is perfect, and I did love it.

It kind of surprised me that I've put this one so low down because Breasts and Eggs was my favorite book of 2020, and Heaven was one of my favorite books of last year.

Nell Stevens is already a very accomplished writer, but this is her debut piece of fiction, her debut novel, and it is magnificent. It is so sexy and sensual, but it also really reminded me of Hamnet.

It's disturbing and frightening and very punk, and I loved it to pieces for all of those things because that's what I really love in fiction.

It kind of surprised me that I've put this one so low down because Breasts and Eggs was my favorite book of 2020, and Heaven was one of my favorite books of last year.

I did a video on this very recently, and this is my favorite piece of science fiction of this year so far. I am amazed at the breadth and scope and imagination on display here.

She's probably the most exciting author coming out of Mexico right now, and that was solidified by Hurricane Season, which was a really incredible novel.

I love this book absolutely to pieces. It would be in my top 10, but I'm not doing nonfiction.

It is a magnificent piece of camp queer historical fiction that pays homage to so many great British writers like Shakespeare and Dickens and even Agatha Christie. I can't say enough good things about Nettle Black.

Our Wives Under the Sea is modern, but it is gothic through and through. There are no castles. There are no monsters, really.

It's really poignant in that way. And these characters are interestingly sympathetic for people who are so awful, and I found that really engaging.

It is a book about holding on, about discovery, about reaching out and finding the strength to connect yourself to the world around you, and I think it's absolutely beautiful. It gave me a lot of strength, a lot of empathy, a lot of what I needed at the time when I was feeling particularly depressed, probably the lowest point I think I've ever been at in my life, and Solo Dance came along, and I am so grateful to it for that.

The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews is a perfect, over-the-top, caricatured gothic novel that I absolutely adored. I had so much fun reading this.

What I really, really liked about Violets is the way that it explored patriarchy and the male gaze in a way that is very subtle and quiet, and therefore kind of stuck in my head more than something loud and shocking.