Our Favorite Reads of 2022
Created by SCLSNJ Staff
We work in a library so naturally we love books. Here are our staff favorite books read (re-read or newly discovered) in 2022:
A favorite of more than one staff member:
- “A City Beautiful” by Aden Polydoros
- “Heartstopper, Volume 1” by Alice Oseman
- “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid
All the favorites:
- “All Our Hidden Gifts” by Caroline O’Donoghue
- “Anxious People” by Fredrik Backman
- “Be Prepared” by Vera Brosgol
- “Beautiful World, Where Are You” by Sally Rooney
- “Black Cake” by Charmaine Wilkerson
- “Book Lovers” by Emily Henry
- “Braving the Wilderness” by Brené Brown
- “The Circles in the Sky” by Karl James Mountford
- “Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr
- “Cujo” by Stephen King
- “Dear Girls“by Ali Wong
- “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller
- “Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?” by Harold Schechter
- “Different Kinds of Fruit” by Kyle Lukoff
- “Fairy Tale” by Stephen King
- “From Blood and Ash” by Jennifer L. Armentrout
- “The Genius Under the Table” by Eugene Yelchin
- “The Giver of Stars” by JoJo Moyes
- “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” by Holly Jackson
- “H is for Harlem” by Dinah Johnson
- “The Hacienda” by Isabel Cañas
- “Hamnet” by Maggie O’Farrell
- “Home Sick Pilots Vol. 1” by Dan Watters
- “House of Sky and Breath: A Crescent City Novel” by Sarah J. Maas
- “How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be” by Katherine L. Milkman
- “If This Gets Out” by Sophie Gonzales
- “The Immortalists” by Chloe Benjamin
- “Iron Widow” by Xiran Jay Zhao
- “The Kiss Quotient” by Helen Hoang
- “Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro
- “The Last Graduate” by Naomi Novik
- “Lore Olympus” by Rachel Smythe
- “The Lumberjanes” series by various authors
- “The Maid” by Nita Prose
- “Malice” by Heather Walter
- “Mazebook” by Jeff Lemire
- “The Nature of Fragile Things” by Susan Meissner
- “Night Books” by J.A. White
- “Night of the Living Rez” by Morgan Talty
- “Olga Dies Dreaming” by Xochitl Gonzalez
- “Pages & Co.” series by Anna James
- “People From My Neighborhood” by Hiromi Kawakami
- “The Personal Librarian” by Marie Benedict
- “Poison for Breakfast” by Lemony Snicket
- “A Psalm for the Wild-Built” by Becky Chambers
- “Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt
- “Shutter” by Ramona Emerson
- “Sick in the Head” by Judd Apatow
- “Sicker in the Head” by Judd Apatow
- “Small Spaces” series by Katherine Arden
- “The Spanish Love Deception” by Elena Armas
- “Spear” Nicola Griffith
- “Spontaneous Human Combustion” by Richard Thomas
- “Strange the Dreamer” by Laini Taylor
- “The Summer Place” by Jennifer Weiner
- “Sweep of Stars” by Maurice Broaddus
- “Tender Is the Flesh” by Agustina Baztericca
- “Things Past Telling” by Sheila Williams
- “This Time Tomorrow” by Emma Straub
- “Tidesong” by Wendy Xu
- “Tinfoil Butterfly” by Rachel Eve Moulton
- “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin
- “The Two Lives of Sara” by Catherine Adel West
- “Velorio” by Xavier Navarro Aquino
- “The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches” by Sangu Mandanna
- “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson
- “The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- “What Moves the Dead” by T Kingfisher
- “When the Angels Left the Old Country” by Sacha Lamb
- “Winterkeep” by Kristin Cashore