This is my last piece in 2022 and a minimalist one at that where I let pictures do all the talking. Exactly like in 2019, 2020 and 2021, this post is a photo-feature highlighting all the books I read during the year. Of these, the ones I loved the most found a place on My Best Books of 2022list that I published in mid-December.
So without much ado, here are all the books I read in 2022…I have written monthly posts on them too, should you want to read the mini write-ups or detailed reviews. Wishing you a Happy New Year!
In mid-December, I released My Best Books of 2021. These are the books that I really loved and would heartily recommend.
Also, exactly like in 2019 and 2020, I am doing a photo-feature post this year too that depicts all the books I read during the year in pictures, because I also enjoy photographing books.
So without much ado, here are all the books…I have done monthly posts highlighting my reading this year too, should you want to know more about these books.
In mid-December I released My Best Books of 2020. These are the books that made a deep impression on me and ones I would highly recommend.
However, in an immensely strange year where being holed up home was the norm, I took comfort from the fact that it was richly rewarding in terms of reading – both in quantity and quality. I read a total of 71 books, probably more than I did in previous years. Most books I read every month were very good, even if they did not find a place in my year-end list.
So, just like last time, here’s all that I read in 2020 depicted in pictures. I have done monthly posts highlighting my reading this year too, should you want to know more about these books.
This is more of a post to capture all of the books I read this year…in pictures.
In that sense, it is different from my Best of 2019 list (which I intend to release by mid-December), for which I will pick up the cream of the books from this lot.
It’s an attempt to try a different kind of a post, more so because I love to photograph books as much as I love reading them.
Throughout the year, on social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram, I had been posting books I read and enjoyed at the end of every month. And so I thought why not collate all this, and put it up on my blog?
So without further ado, click on each picture for a clearer view of the books…
Favourites in Jan were Good Behaviour, The Driver’s Seat, Memento Mori and The Girls of Slender MeansFeb favourites: The Balkan Trilogy and The Gastronomical MeMarch was a bumper month. I loved all four of these books.Books in April which lingered in my mind: Good Morning Midnight, Bottled Goods and the short story collection Animalia ParadoxaMay was another super duper month. Favourites were Tentacle, Fish Soup, The Juniper Tree and The Ivory GrinSome wonderful books in June were The Wind That Lays Waste and All For NothingI couldn’t read as much as I would have liked in July, but all the three books were greatThe star in August was Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet. Kawakami’s novel was a close secondSeptember stunners were the three Tove Ditlevsen memoirs and The Levan TrilogyFavourites in October: The Man Who Saw Everything and Seduction & BetrayalWhat I loved in November: Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Loop, The Galton Case and A Girl Returned
What’s missing is December, which I will add at the end of the month. Also, by then I would have released my Best of 2019 books list.
Radhika's Reading Retreat 