{"id":42037,"date":"2023-01-05T22:49:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T03:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42037"},"modified":"2023-01-15T21:49:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T02:49:37","slug":"2022-sonderbooks-stand-outs-books-for-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42037","title":{"rendered":"2022 Sonderbooks Stand-outs – Books for Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Well, it’s time to announce my 2022 Sonderbooks Stand-outs! Way past time, in fact!<\/p>\n

I like to post Stand-outs on January 1st, but this year a terrible toothache absorbed my attention. After getting a root canal and temporary crown, I’m ready to proceed.<\/p>\n

To give you an idea of my difficult task, here are the numbers of books I read in 2022:<\/p>\n

Adult Fiction: 11 books
\nAdult Nonfiction: 30 books
\nTeen Fiction: 56 books
\nTeen Nonfiction: 7 books
\nChildren’s Fiction: 57 books
\nChildren’s Nonfiction: 113 books (counting many picture books)
\nFiction Picture Books: 283 books<\/p>\n

Let’s say the children’s nonfiction books are all picture books, even though they’re not. That would be grand totals of<\/p>\n

396 picture books
\n161 longer books<\/p>\n

Grand total: 557 books read in 2022.<\/p>\n

So if I have chosen 93 stand-outs (and I have), you see that I’m actually making difficult choices.<\/p>\n

My list of Stand-outs come from all the books I read in a year and they are my personal favorites. I’m not ranking them by literary merit — I’m listing the books that I enjoyed the most.<\/p>\n

As an example of a quirky choice, my Sonderbooks Stand-out #9 in General Nonfiction is Carotid and Vertebral Artery Dissection<\/em>, by Jodi A. Dobbs and Amanda P. Anderson – simply because I had a vertebral artery dissection that caused a stroke eleven years ago, and at last<\/em> I have a source of information validating my experiences with that. Definitely a Stand-out for me!<\/p>\n

This year was extra difficult in the Teen Fiction category, because I was a second round judge for the Young Adult Speculative Fiction category last January and a first round panelist for the same category this Fall. And read lots in between. So as usual, I decided to solve that difficulty by breaking things up into multiple categories.<\/p>\n

Many of the books do not have reviews posted yet, especially the ones I read for the Cybils<\/a> (before we chose our Finalists<\/a>), so my next priority will be getting the reviews for all these books posted.<\/p>\n

It also turns out that it’s taking me a long time to get the books listed with links to the reviews, so I’m going to break this post up to get more titles out sooner.<\/p>\n

Here are the books for grown-ups that I especially loved in 2022:<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. The Golden Enclaves<\/a><\/em>, by Naomi Novik<\/li>\n
  2. Black Cake<\/a><\/em>, by Charmaine Wilderson<\/li>\n
  3. The Murder of Mr. Wickham<\/a><\/em>, by Claudia Gray<\/li>\n
  4. The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot<\/a><\/em>, by Marianne Cronin<\/li>\n
  5. The Reading List<\/a><\/em>, by Sara Nisha Adams<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Christian Nonfiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Miracles and Other Reasonable Things<\/a><\/em>, by Sara Bessey<\/li>\n
    2. Wholehearted Faith<\/a><\/em>, by Rachel Held Evans<\/li>\n
    3. The Whole Language<\/a><\/em>, by Gregory Boyle<\/li>\n
    4. Freeing Jesus<\/a><\/em>, by Diana Butler Bass<\/li>\n
    5. Learning to Pray<\/em>, by James Martin, S.J.<\/li>\n
    6. Open and Unafraid<\/em>, by W. David O. Taylor<\/li>\n
    7. Braving the Thin Places<\/a><\/em>, by Julianne Stanz<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Other Nonfiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. What My Bones Know<\/em>, by Stephanie Foo<\/li>\n
      2. How to Keep House While Drowning<\/em>, by KC Davis<\/li>\n
      3. Conversations with People who Hate Me<\/a><\/em>, by Dylan Marron<\/li>\n
      4. The Choice<\/a><\/em>, by Edith Eva Eger<\/li>\n
      5. Collective Wisdom<\/a><\/em>, by Grace Bonney<\/li>\n
      6. Invisible Acts of Power<\/a><\/em>, by Caroline Myss<\/li>\n
      7. Call Us What We Carry<\/a><\/em>, by Amanda Gorman<\/li>\n
      8. Playing with Myself<\/a><\/em>, by Randy Rainbow<\/li>\n
      9. Carotid and Vertebral Artery Dissection<\/em>, by Jodi A. Dodds & Amanda P. Anderson<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Here are my 2022 Sonderbooks Stand-outs for Teens<\/a>.
        \nAnd here are my         2022 Sonderbooks Stand-outs for Children<\/a>.<\/p>\n

        And here’s my permanent webpage for all my 2022 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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