Totally baffled as to how I managed to read more this year than any other year, including those couple of pandemic years where I was just home all of the time. But here we are, 70 books later - a personal best! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Top 5

• The Dictionary of Lost Words, by Pip Williams

• The Fragile Threads of Power, by V.E. Schwab

• Other Birds, by Sarah Addison Allen

• Weyward, by Emilia Hart

• Who is Maud Dixon?, by Alexandra Andrews

Loved it (highly recommend)

• Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo," by Zora Neale Hurston

• Deaf Republic, by Ilya Kaminsky

• Hestia Strikes a Match, by Christine Grillo

• The House Girl, by Tara Conklin

• Kaikeyi, by Vaishnavi Patel

• Murder Most Festive, by Ada Moncrieff

• Olga Dies Dreaming, by Xóchitl González

• Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng

Liked it (enjoyed it and would recommend)

• Alias Emma, by Ava Glass

• A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons, by Kate Khavari

• Butts: A Backstory, by Heather Radke

• The Death of Jane Lawrence, by Caitlin Starling

• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, by Benjamin Stevenson

• Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch, by Rivka Galchen

• The Family Upstairs and The Family Remains, by Lisa Jewell

• Ghost Boys, by Jewell Parker Rhodes

• The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill

• Grief is the Thing with Feathers, by Max Porter

• Horse, by Geraldine Brooks

• The Housekeepers, by Alex Hay

• The Inheritance Games series, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

• The Killings at Kingfisher Hill, by Sophie Hannah

• Let Me Go, by Helga Schneider

• Night of the Living Rez, by Morgan Talty

• Now Is Not the Time to Panic, by Kevin Wilson

• Shy, by Max Porter

• So Much More Than a Headache, edited by Kathleen O'Shea

• The Pearl Thief and The Enigma Game, by Elizabeth Wein

• The Power, by Naomi Alderman

• True Biz, by Sara Nović

• Wrecked, by Heather Henson

It was fine (read it if the subject matter interests you)

• Amy Among the Serial Killers, by Jincy Willett

• The Cartographers, by Peng Shepard

• The Cat Who Saved Books, by Sosuke Natsukawa

• The Enigma Game and The Pearl Thief, by Elizabeth Wein

• Hell Bent, by Leigh Bardugo

• The Last White Man, by Mohsin Hamid

• The Light of Luna Park, by Addison Armstrong

• Night of the Short Eyes, by Peter Plate

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• The Sun Is Also a Star, by Nicola Yoon

• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin

• The Veneration of Monsters, by Suzanne Burns

• The Whalebone Theatre, by Joanna Quinn

Did not like it (do not recommend)

• Black Cake, by Charmaine Wilkerson

• Changing Destiny, by Ben Okri

• Genuine Fraud, by E. Lockhart

• How High We Go in the Dark, by Sequoia Nagamatsu

• Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• Remote Control, by Nnedi Okorafor

• Scatterlings, by Resoketswe Manenzhe

• The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, & a Family Secret, by Catherin Bailey

• The Skin and Its Girl, by Sarah Cypher

• Under the Whispering Door, by T.J. Klune

And a few great re-reads this year:

• The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean

• Code Name Verity and Rose Under Fire, by Elizabeth Wein

• Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms, by Lissa Evans

• The Kingdoms, by Natasha Pulley

• The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern

• Ninth House, by Leigh Bardugo

• The Shawshank Redemption, by Stephen King

• Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel