End of year lists

I have been using the local library in recent months, as well as reading on Kindle, listening on Audible and reading the odd purchased book. The list below is of all of the books I have read during 2021, having slowed right down in December. I have got stuck on Coming Up for Air by George Orwell, not because of it being unenjoyable but I've just not had time to get into the routine of reading recently.

45 books then, almost one a week, so that has to be the target for 2022. The worst book I have got through tis year was History by Miles Jupp. I like Miles Jupp and find him very funny. However, I absolutely hated his book. Strong words but I mean them in this case. There was something deeply irritating about the humour and the constant hopelessness of the main character.

My top 5 are:

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex

Circe by Madeleine Miller

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

Remain Silent by Susie Steiner
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Queenie by Candice Carty Williams
The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Bacchae by Euripides
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Anti Social by Nick Pettigrew
The Mannington Witches by A K Blakemore
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
The Corfe Castle Murders by Rachel Maclean
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
Summer by Ali Smith
Circe by Madeleine Miller
Slough House by Mick Herron
Putin's People by Catherine Belton
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
The Iliad by Homer
Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
History by Miles Jupp
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
And Away by Bob Mortimer
Maigret Sets a Trap by Georges Simenon
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
No Regrets: Edith Piaf by Carolyn Burke
Don't You Leave Me Here by Wilko Johnson
The Death of Jesus by J M Coetzee
Stranger City by Linda Grant
Charlie Savage by Roddy Doyle
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
A Room Made of Leaves Kate Grenville
Meltdown by Ben Elton
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
The Soul Of a Woman by Isabel Allende
Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
Conclave by Robert Harris
In A Strange Room by Damon Galgut
Christmas Village by Laurie Lee

I think of all of them, Great Circle is my favourite of the year.