Excuse me?! You read four hundred and how many books?! You, Sir, are a powerhouse! Thank you for this fantastic list, I'm so glad I discovered yours and Shelley's channels in 2022 💖
Fraser, great list! I remember seeing some of these in videos throughout the year. I’ve only gotten to a few of them so far but a bunch are on my shelf so it’s good to know I’ve got good things to look forward to :)
What a year! I still need to get to Tomb of Guardians, Atta, and S. Definitely agree regarding Ferrante - her books are easily in my top 10 of the year.
@@kiranreader So glad you're enjoying Solenoid!! My list should be out in like 2 weeks. I just haven't had the time to sit down and film, unfortunately. (I really enjoyed your list, by the way -- Joseph Andras's Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder us was one of my favorites in 2021.)
JR was one of my favorite rereads of 2022. I’m doing The Recognitions for March of the Mammoths. The Magic Mountain was my favorite backlist book of the year. I really liked the first three books of the L.A. Quartet. I haven’t read White Jazz. A lot of other great books on this list.
White Jazz has quite the stylistic upheaval. I liked it, but it’s a step back from a style he had pretty much just perfected, so I guess he got sick of it. When taken all of them as one, it certainly elevates it, because it does bookend and call back to a bunch of things that happened previously. Individually, it’s probably the weakest.
Such a varied and interesting list. Some old favourites here like A Suitable Boy, Perdido Street Station and Lost Children Archive. And then some I should hunt out. I picked up Satantango from a charity shop years ago and have never got around to it but I will now. I have mixed feelings about The House of Leaves but the shared read of Magic Mountain was a wonderful experience for me.
I had a much longer list of best books than what I ended up sharing, but I didn’t have the energy for making a long video. You did well! I was pleased to see some of my faves from earlier years on your list: Luminaries; Women in Clothes; My Brilliant Friend (which I did in audio); and Lost Children Archive (also audio).
I had no idea The Prestige was a book as well as a film. You read an epic amount of books last year. You can definitely have more than a top 10 books 😃
The Art of Losing made my list this year as well. I have never heard of Perdido Street Station but it sounds so interesting! Must see if I can find a copy. I love the Prestige and have to admit I didn't realize it was adapted from a book. Glad to hear it holds up to the movie.
I didn’t know it was adapted from a book for ages too! I’m not sure how I came across it. The audiobook was on audible plus catalogue for free though, so that’s as great! So glad you liked The Art of Losing too! It’s so good!
Perdido Street Station sounds so interesting - i need to check it out! i bought S in 2021 but haven't had a chance to read it yet!! i need to reread autobiography of malcolm x -- looking forward to ur movie list!! i'm so behind on watching films u + nathan r gonna inspire me to watch more!!!
Perdido is a wild one. Sometimes very horrific. But after Lapvona I’m sure you could get through anything on that front hah :) S is just yeah, heavy :| So many movies these days!
mcsqueeze me?! 470 books?? when i grow up i wanna be just like you 😭 glad to see Lispector in the list! read Satantango ages ago when my brain was too small at the ripe age of 18 and may need to revisit it to appreciate it more. thanks for the mention! editing will be the death of me haha but hopefully will learn a lot more this year! hope to see your top 10 films soon!! happy reading to you in 2023!
@@SpringboardThought woah...can't believe i've missed out on your review of Atta! i'm almost done with it, but wanted to see if anyone else had talked about it!
Top 25 is legit - I always like listening to you share about books- out of these do you feel like you know enough to have one you’d recommend to me particularly?
I spaced out on a couple of these and missed mentioning a couple people, so sorry for that. For instance, I read A Suitable Boy with Sandy from Ms Readsalot. I’m pretty sure I saw I missed one or two others as well. Oh noo
I’m all about new streams! You would like Gaddis! Of course From Hell made on this list. 🫠 Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies 🫶🏼 The Luminaries is perfection and so is Middlesex. Wait, wait, I’m seeing a trend. Someone, ahem, ahem, like me or just me, seems to recommend really good books. Hmm?? Hmm? Ferrante! Ferrante! ❤ I love her so much! Malcolm X is on my TBR! 😊
The majority of the books on my best of list of 2022 , were not published in that year. The Sleep Walkers Guide to Dancing The Arsonists City War Doctor by David Nott The Garden of Evening Mists Labyrinth The Performance The Rain Heron After The Parade by Lori Ostlund Foster by Claire Keegan Early Morning Riser The Innocents by Michael Crummey Interpreter of Maladies A Thousand Acres The Lacuna The Poisonwood Bible 🍀👋☘️📕📚📖☕️
It sure didn’t disappoint. Read it right after The Brothers Karamazov, which was very disappointing. Best book ever written, perhaps when it was published.
I work from home and any time I’m not working, I’m probably reading, even if it’s an audiobook while I drive or go for a walk, or workout, etc. I just allocate a lot of my time to it.
Excuse me?! You read four hundred and how many books?! You, Sir, are a powerhouse! Thank you for this fantastic list, I'm so glad I discovered yours and Shelley's channels in 2022 💖
Wow thanks so much :)
What a remarkable list! Loved having you join the group read. Thank you for your participation.
Thanks for putting it together!
you definitely added books to my tbr and got me geeked to read others i've been sleeping on! thank you :)
So happy to hear it!!
House of Leaves is incredible! So glad you liked it! Really want to read Luminaries!
I hope you like it if you get to it! House of Leaves was probably my most fun read of the year!
Fraser, great list! I remember seeing some of these in videos throughout the year. I’ve only gotten to a few of them so far but a bunch are on my shelf so it’s good to know I’ve got good things to look forward to :)
Thanks a lot!!
What a year! I still need to get to Tomb of Guardians, Atta, and S. Definitely agree regarding Ferrante - her books are easily in my top 10 of the year.
when are we getting your top reads?! ps - i've started solenoid so good!!
@@kiranreader So glad you're enjoying Solenoid!! My list should be out in like 2 weeks. I just haven't had the time to sit down and film, unfortunately. (I really enjoyed your list, by the way -- Joseph Andras's Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder us was one of my favorites in 2021.)
@@travelthroughstories thank you, thank you!!! looking forward to ur vid!
I think all three would be slam dunks for you! Yeah, I think about that last Ferrante especially all the time. I loved that ending so much.
Just bought Perdido Street Station!
Hope you also dig it!
@@SpringboardThought will read it one of these days.
I really enjoyed The Autobiography of Malcolm X! Thanks for sharing all your books
Thanks Deb!!
A great list Fraser. So many good ones and underrated books that need more love. A few are on my TBR. 😊💙
Thanks a lot! :)
JR was one of my favorite rereads of 2022. I’m doing The Recognitions for March of the Mammoths.
The Magic Mountain was my favorite backlist book of the year.
I really liked the first three books of the L.A. Quartet. I haven’t read White Jazz.
A lot of other great books on this list.
White Jazz has quite the stylistic upheaval. I liked it, but it’s a step back from a style he had pretty much just perfected, so I guess he got sick of it. When taken all of them as one, it certainly elevates it, because it does bookend and call back to a bunch of things that happened previously. Individually, it’s probably the weakest.
an award ceremony!!!!!! yes!!!!!!!!!!
A very haphazard one lmao
Such a varied and interesting list. Some old favourites here like A Suitable Boy, Perdido Street Station and Lost Children Archive. And then some I should hunt out. I picked up Satantango from a charity shop years ago and have never got around to it but I will now. I have mixed feelings about The House of Leaves but the shared read of Magic Mountain was a wonderful experience for me.
Im pretty confident you’d like Satantango! I read it off the back of The Brothers Karamazov and it was wildly better than that
So many of my favourites on this list. I'd forgotten that you'd read "Atta", quite remarkable piece of writing.
Yes, I knew right away ATTA would be on the list. Looking forward to more Kobek this year too.
I had a much longer list of best books than what I ended up sharing, but I didn’t have the energy for making a long video. You did well! I was pleased to see some of my faves from earlier years on your list: Luminaries; Women in Clothes; My Brilliant Friend (which I did in audio); and Lost Children Archive (also audio).
Somehow shorter than the top 10! Hah!
Yay for Luminaries! I haven't watched adaptation yet either ...
I still haven’t ahhh
I had no idea The Prestige was a book as well as a film. You read an epic amount of books last year. You can definitely have more than a top 10 books 😃
Haha thank you! And yeah! I didn’t know either until I was browsing the audible plus catalogue thing and came upon it! Had no idea!
The Art of Losing made my list this year as well. I have never heard of Perdido Street Station but it sounds so interesting! Must see if I can find a copy. I love the Prestige and have to admit I didn't realize it was adapted from a book. Glad to hear it holds up to the movie.
I didn’t know it was adapted from a book for ages too! I’m not sure how I came across it. The audiobook was on audible plus catalogue for free though, so that’s as great! So glad you liked The Art of Losing too! It’s so good!
Perdido Street Station sounds so interesting - i need to check it out! i bought S in 2021 but haven't had a chance to read it yet!! i need to reread autobiography of malcolm x -- looking forward to ur movie list!! i'm so behind on watching films u + nathan r gonna inspire me to watch more!!!
Perdido is a wild one. Sometimes very horrific. But after Lapvona I’m sure you could get through anything on that front hah :) S is just yeah, heavy :|
So many movies these days!
Great list. Glad The Luminaries made it, I loved it, but a couple of my friends DNF'd it. The Malcolm X audiobook sounds superb.
It does take a while to get going I guess! Malcolm X was so good. I hope you like it too!
Interesting list. I want to listen to the Autobiography of Malcolm X with the LF narration!
It’s really fantastic I hope you like it!
Ugh.. the magic mountain 🤷♀️ yay for a suitable boy
Haha yay !!
Each time I hear about The Art of Losing, I think I need to pick that up! I love that kind of immigrant family history type of story.
It’s so good! I hope you like it too!
I really want to read Fake Accounts and Ace. I go back and forth on whether I want to read the Ferrante series but I should probably give it a go.
I loook forward to whatever you end up picking up!
mcsqueeze me?! 470 books?? when i grow up i wanna be just like you 😭 glad to see Lispector in the list! read Satantango ages ago when my brain was too small at the ripe age of 18 and may need to revisit it to appreciate it more.
thanks for the mention! editing will be the death of me haha but hopefully will learn a lot more this year! hope to see your top 10 films soon!!
happy reading to you in 2023!
Haha thanks, same to you. Actually a goal this year is to read less. Yeah lots of videos coming! At… some point hah :)
@@SpringboardThought great let's swich lives/reading habits !! would honestly love to read more ✨🙇🏻♂
@@SpringboardThought woah...can't believe i've missed out on your review of Atta! i'm almost done with it, but wanted to see if anyone else had talked about it!
@@nathansnook oh awesome that you’ve picked it up, looking forward to your thoughts. I think I only know of like one other person who has read it.
Top 25 is legit - I always like listening to you share about books- out of these do you feel like you know enough to have one you’d recommend to me particularly?
I think The Lost Children Archive would be up your alley
"...by a country mile, a country mile!" LOL
It’s true it’s true!
I spaced out on a couple of these and missed mentioning a couple people, so sorry for that. For instance, I read A Suitable Boy with Sandy from Ms Readsalot. I’m pretty sure I saw I missed one or two others as well. Oh noo
I’m all about new streams! You would like Gaddis! Of course From Hell made on this list. 🫠 Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies 🫶🏼 The Luminaries is perfection and so is Middlesex. Wait, wait, I’m seeing a trend. Someone, ahem, ahem, like me or just me, seems to recommend really good books. Hmm?? Hmm? Ferrante! Ferrante! ❤ I love her so much!
Malcolm X is on my TBR! 😊
Haha yes you recommend great books, it is true and known :)
@@SpringboardThought well thank you!! ☺️
The majority of the books on my best of list of 2022 , were not published in that year.
The Sleep Walkers Guide to Dancing
The Arsonists City
War Doctor by David Nott
The Garden of Evening Mists
Labyrinth
The Performance
The Rain Heron
After The Parade by Lori Ostlund
Foster by Claire Keegan
Early Morning Riser
The Innocents by Michael Crummey
Interpreter of Maladies
A Thousand Acres
The Lacuna
The Poisonwood Bible
🍀👋☘️📕📚📖☕️
Thanks for sharing! I’m surprised none of the ones you were mentioning early in the year as your favourites around Booker season made the cut!
Top 25, ok, now I feel even more savage with my top 5. LoL. 😂
Haha I tried but in the end I just justified my actions instead lol
@@SpringboardThought Good approach! 😆
Some great books. I have been wanting to read satantango for so long!
It sure didn’t disappoint. Read it right after The Brothers Karamazov, which was very disappointing. Best book ever written, perhaps when it was published.
Just finished perdido street. Wondered if you read mordew by Alex pheby. It reminded me of gormenghast by Mervyn peake.
I haven’t read Mordew, but Gormenghast is one of my absolute favourites, so that’s very enticing!
Fraser, how did you read so many books and obviously retained them so well. Do you work or is reading your full time occupation?
I work from home and any time I’m not working, I’m probably reading, even if it’s an audiobook while I drive or go for a walk, or workout, etc. I just allocate a lot of my time to it.
I really enjoy your book talks! I’m an expat living in USA originally from Ontario. Thanks for your reply!