This list was extremely hard for me to narrow down, so much so that I was originally aiming for a nice, round 10 choices but ended up with 12. I couldn’t make myself cut two more. I read 91 books in 2022, and if I’m not mistaken, only two of them were by men. I made a conscious choice about five years ago to focus more on books by women, and have since really only ended up reading books by men when they are on a specific subject that I’m researching. I will talk more about that choice in a separate post someday, but suffice it to say that I read a lot of books by women and nonbinary people this year, and most of them were good. So for December’s list, I decided to do a quick little bit about some that missed the other lists for whatever reason, but that I still think are worth recommending. But enough prologue. To the list.
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
1982
Fiction
This was my end-of-year read, when all the TBR lists had been completed (or as completed as they ever are). I took my time with it, and I think you’ll want to, as well. It’s a multigenerational story of a landowning family living in Chilé, and it covers the period from the 1910s all the way up until the 1970s. We start with the little clairvoyant of the family, Clara, dropping an F bomb in…
