2022 in Books: Fiction Edition
literary fiction published 2015-2022 (based on publish of english translation!)
breasts and eggs by mieko kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
heads of the colored people by nafissa thompson-spires (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - a perfect short story collection. so witty!
the hole by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
larose by louise erdrich (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
i will die in a foreign land by kalani pickhart (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the house of broken angels by luis alberto urrea (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
less by andrew sea greer (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
there there by tommy orange (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
at night all blood is black by david diop (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
beautiful world, where are you by sally rooney (⭐⭐⭐)
weasels in the attic by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐)
joan is okay by weike wang (⭐⭐⭐)
a tiny upward shove by melissa chadburn (⭐⭐⭐) - one of the most upsetting books i've ever read :( lots of merit but good lord is it rough
open water by caleb azumah nelson (⭐⭐⭐)
earthlings by sayaka murata (⭐⭐⭐) - competing with a tiny upward shove for most disgusting difficult book to read. this one i almost couldn't complete
kim jiyoung, born 1982 by nam-joo cho (⭐⭐) - this is so overrated. it's not a novel. it's an essay pretending to be a novel.
very nice by marcy dermansky (⭐⭐)
true love by sarah gerard (⭐⭐) - ever wanted to shake some sense into a character before?
spark by naoki matayoshi (⭐⭐)
people from my neighborhood by hiromi kawakami (⭐⭐)
the doll by ismail kadare (⭐)
literary fiction published 1971-2014
sexing the cherry by jeanette winterson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i have never highlighted more lines in a book. prose got me in a chokehold.
love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
norwegian wood by haruki murakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i don't wanna like murakami as much as i do but damn he doesn't miss
midnight's children by salman rushdie (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
less than zero by bret easton ellis (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
woman at point zero by nawal el saadawi (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - read this if you want to get homicidally angry :)
lion cross point by masatsugu ono (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
post office by charles bukowski (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
dept. of speculation by jenny offill (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - if i'd ever had to fight for a relationship this would have been a 5 star.
the dangers of smoking in bed by mariana enriquez (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
woman hollering creek and other stories by sandra cisneros (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - cheat code: read this aloud. prose drips off the tongue.
the ten loves of mr. nishino by hiromi kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
kitchen by banana yoshimoto (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the divorce by cesar aira (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - 4 stars on the merit of the first part. the rest is probably a 3 star
if you kept a record of sins by andrea bajani (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
love by hanne orstavik (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
too loud a solitude by bohumil hrabal (⭐⭐⭐)
the factory by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐)
a feather on the breath of god by sigrid nunez (⭐⭐⭐) - good for what it is but a bit lightweight? maybe too critical because i loved 'the friend' by the same author
the white tiger by aravind adiga (⭐⭐⭐)
sleepless nights by elizabeth hardwick (⭐⭐⭐)
the story of my teeth by valeria luiselli (⭐⭐) - cool concept. unsure about the execution.
interpreter of maladies by jhumpa lahiri (⭐⭐)
battles in the desert by jose emilio pacheco (⭐⭐) - should have been a novel not a novella. it ends right as it starts to gain steam
literary fiction published start of time-1970
the passion according to g.h. by clarice lispector (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - favorite book of the year!!!! an existential crisis on paper!!!!
japanese tales of mystery & imagination by edogawa rampo (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - the 1st short story in this is insane! insane! the chair! i'm screaming!
miramar by naguib mahfouz (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the blind owl by sadegh hedayat (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - pinnacle of slow descent into madness fiction...or it's not that slow i guess
pedro paramo by juan rulfo (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the turn of the screw by henry james (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - would have been 4 stars, but i read an edition with lit crit essays in the back and it was so fun to read the "but are the ghosts real?" discourses that i had to give it that extra star
i am a cat by natsume soseki (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - if soseki ever described my physical appearance in writing i'd promptly perish. he eviscerates people. dear god.
giovanni's room by james baldwin (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the old man and the sea (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the interpreters by wole soyinka (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i don't even know what i like about this book. bad characters, no plot, confusing prose. and yet...it's got a rhythm. it possessed me.
pocho by jose antonio villareal (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the living is easy by dorothy west (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - one of my fave protags of all time!
yesterday by juan emar (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
naomi by jun'ichiro tanizaki (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
passing by nella larsen (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
wide sargasso sea by jean rhys (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
bartleby, the scrivener: a story of wall street by herman melville (⭐⭐⭐) - tell you why i didn't give this more stars? i'd prefer not to.
season of migration to the north by tayeb salih (⭐⭐⭐)
everything and nothing by jorge luis borges (⭐⭐⭐) - i read this with a migraine. i was not in the right mindset. i'll give ficciones more attention someday.
portrait of the artist as a young man by james joyce (⭐⭐) - listen i'm not proud of this rating either. joyce isn't 2 stars. i'm just a 2 star reader.
genre fiction from all time
the fifth season by n.k. jemisin (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - STUNNING
the invisible life of addie larue by v.e. schwab (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i usually don't care for fantasy and hated the other v.e. schwab i read, so this was a nice surprise. it lost me at points but ultimately regained me. deals with the devil are my kryptonite.
a court of mist and fury by sarah j. maas (⭐⭐⭐) - i get the hype. hard to criticize because its faults are what make it so good to others. i liked a lot of it.
how to stop time by matt haig (⭐⭐⭐)
the goddess chronicle by natsuo kirino (⭐⭐⭐)
never have i ever by isabel yap (⭐⭐⭐)
almond by sohn won-pyung (⭐⭐⭐)
once more upon a time by roshani chokshi (⭐⭐⭐)
sea of ruin by pam godwin (⭐⭐) - i thought this was a pirate romance. it is smut. pure smut. i was blushing on audio book. not a fan.
city of refuge by kenzo kitakata (⭐⭐)
nothing but blackened teeth by cassandra khaw (⭐⭐) - bizarre ending. like it could have been ok but it missed the obvious homerun for no reason.
velvet was the night by silvia garcia-moreno (⭐⭐)
colorful by eto mori (⭐⭐)
plays
millennium approaches by tony kushner (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
a doll's house by henrik ibsen (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the inspector general by nikolai gogol (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
waiting for godot by samuel beckett (⭐⭐) - listen i'm just a dumb dumb. i know it's good. i just didn't like it.
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Booklist
My current booklist, with a little over 200 books total, some of which I am currently reading and two that I've finished. Everything will be in alphabetical order and below the cut because this is gonna be a long one.
Please also keep in mind that there may be issues with the listed writers or books that I don't know (I don't really inhabit spaces where I'd find this information out and googling every book or writer I find to see if they're controversial is depressing and I'm not doing that). I'd still like to know though so if you see someone on my list give me a heads up.
A
🤎 A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa
🤍 A Magic Steeped In Poison by Judy I. Lin
🤎 A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
🤍 After the Sun by Jonas Eika
🤎 Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
🤍 All Flesh Is Grass by Clifford D. Simak
🤎 All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell
🤍 All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
🤎 All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thompson Mathews
🤍 Annhilation by Jeff Vandermeer
🤎 Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum
🤍 August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White
B
🤎 Before the Coffe Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
🤍 Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
🤎 Borne by Jeff Vandermeer
🤍 Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
🤎 Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
🤍 Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
🤎 Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
C
🤎 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
🤍 Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka
🤎 City by Clifford D. Simak
🤍 City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer
🤎 Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au
🤍 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (COMPLETED)
🤎 Coraline by Neil Gaiman
🤍 Crying in H Mart by Michell Zauner
D
🤎 Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer
🤍 Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano
🤎 Devil House by John Darnielle
🤍 Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
🤎 Dishonored: The Corroded Man by Adam Christopher
🤍 Dishonored: The Return of Daud by Adam Christopher
🤎 Dishonored: The Veiled Terror by Adam Christopher
🤍 Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
🤎 Don't Say We Didn't Warn You by Ariel Delgado Dixon
E
🤍 Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
🤎 Edenville by Sam Rebelein
🤍 Edge Case by Yz Chin
🤎 Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin
🤍 Enchanted Pilgrimage by Clifford D. Simak
F
🤎 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (COMPLETED)
🤍 Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson
🤎 Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin
🤍 Fire Season by Leyna Know
🤎 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
🤍 Flux by Orion Carloto
🤎 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
🤍 Funny You Should Ask by Elisa Sussman
G
🤎 Ghost Forest by Pik Shuen Fung
🤍 Ghosted by Jenn Ashworth
🤎 Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
🤍 Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
🤎 Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang
🤍 Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #1 by Mō Xiāng Tóng Xiū
🤎 Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
H
🤍 Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
🤎 Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami
🤍 Heaven's Official Blessing #1 by Mō Xiāng Tóng Xiū
🤎 Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
🤍 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
🤎 Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky
I
🤍 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
🤎 I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-Hee
🤍 Idol, Burning by Rin Usami
🤎 If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
🤍 Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
🤎 Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan
🤍 Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flynn
J
🤎 Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang
K
🤍 Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto
🤎 Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
🤍 Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
🤎 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
L
🤍 Laserwriter II by Tamara Shopsin
🤎 Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
🤍 Letter to a Future Lover by Ander Monson
🤎 Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
🤍 Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
🤎 Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
🤍 Loteria by Cynthia Pelayo
🤎 Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park
M
🤍 Made to Kill by Adam Christopher
🤎 Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
🤍 Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
🤎 Memorial by Bryan Washington
🤍 Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
🤎 Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West
🤍 Mister N by Najwa Barakat
🤎 Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
🤍 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of N.I.M.H. by Robert C. O'Brien
🤎 Ms. Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami
🤍 My Year Abroad byChang Rae-Lee
N
🤎 Never Whistle At Night by Shane Hawk
🤍 Night Film by Marisha Pessl
🤎 Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
🤍 Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
🤎 Normal People by Sally Rooney
O
🤍 O Beautiful by Jung Yun
🤎 Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
🤍 Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint by Sing Shong
🤎 Our Wives Under the Sun by Julia Armfield
P
🤍 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
🤎 Paradise Rot by Jenny Hual
🤍 People From My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami
🤎 Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
🤍 Popisho by Leone Ross
🤎 Postmarked the Stars by Andre Norton
🤍 Pretend I'm Dead by Jen Beagin
Q
R
🤎 Revival Season by Monica West
🤍 Ringworld #1 by Larry Niven
S
🤎 Saltwater by Jessica Andrews
🤍 Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
🤎 Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
🤍 Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow
🤎 Send Nudes by Saba Sams
🤍 So Bright the Vision by Clifford D. Simak
🤎 Solo Leveling #1 by Chugong
🤍 Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
🤎 Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin
🤍 Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina
🤎 Stories from Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Rofena
🤍 Strange Weather In Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
🤎 Supper Club by Lara Williams
🤍 Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
🤎 Swimming In the Dark by Tamasz Jedrowski
T
🤍 Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel
🤎 Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki
🤍 Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima
🤎 The Vietri Project by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye
🤍 The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay
🤎 The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
🤍 The City Inside by Samit Basu
🤎 The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
🤍 The Deep by Rivers Solomon
🤎 The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
🤍 The End of the Moment We Had by Toshiki Okada
🤎 The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
🤍 The Fallen by Thomas E. Sniegoski
🤎 The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
🤍 The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
🤎 The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oli
🤍 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
🤎 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
🤍 The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada
🤎 The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
🤍 The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Davila
🤎 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
🤍 The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
🤎 The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
🤍 The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
🤎 The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
🤍 The Local by Joey Hartstone
🤎 The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
🤍 The Midcoast by Adam White
🤎 The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope
🤍 The Nakano Thrift Store by Hiromi Kawakami
🤎 The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected In the Water by Zen Cho
🤍 The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
🤎 The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin
🤍 The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart
🤎 The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
🤍 The Rig by Roger Levy
🤎 The Rock Eaters by Brenda Peynado
🤍 The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System by Mō Xiāng Tóng Xiū
🤎 The Secret History by Donna Tart
🤍 The Stange Bird by Jeff Vandermeer
🤎 The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
🤍 The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
🤎 The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
🤍 The Visitors by Clifford D. Simak
🤎 The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber
🤍 The Werewolf Principle by Clifford D. Simak
🤎 The White Book by Han Kang
🤍 The World After the Fall by Sing Shong
🤎 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
🤍 They Walked Like Men by Clifford D. Simak
🤎 This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
🤍 This One Sky Day by Leone Ross
🤎 This Weightless World by Adam Soto
🤍 This World Is Full of Monsters by Jeff Vandermeer
🤎 Those Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
🤍 Time and Again by Clifford D. Simak
🤎 Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
🤍 Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist
U
V
W
🤎 Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
🤍 We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman
🤎 Weather by Jenny Offrill
🤍 Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
🤎 Welcome to Nightvale by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
🤍 What Is Not Your Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
🤎 What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
🤍 When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
🤎 When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'Neill
🤍 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
🤎 Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes
🤍 Where the Evil Dwells by Clifford D. Simak
🤎 Why Call Them Back From Heaven? by Clifford D. Simak
🤍 Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
🤎 Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
X
Y
🤍 You Have A Friend In 10A by Maggie Shipstead
🤎 You Made A Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
🤍 Yvinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Z
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