Looks like we have wrapped up another hundred book plus (126) year, again disregarding rereads such as Toby Daye series and Mercy Thompson series.
Best new (to me) author: Robert Jackson Bennett, with his City of Stairs, City of Blades, City of Miracles trilogy. Runner up - Bernard Cornwell, with his Last Kingdom series.
My 2021 best new author, Jack Carr, has published another four books in his series and the first one has been made into a controversial Netflix series.
Best SF: Hail Mary by Andy Weir is a return to good old hard science SF, for the most part.
Best Fantasy: Nothing in the stand alone category this year.
Best SF series: Dorothy Grant's Combined Operations books, though Nathan Lowell's Quarter Share had a great beginning, and I'd pursue it if the library started carrying them.
Best Fantasy (YA) series: The Scholomancer trilogy by Naomi Novik.
Best Thriller/Mystery: The Whistler by John Grisham
Best Non Fiction: Life, on the Line, by Grant Achatz - personally resonated with me on multiple levels.
So much else that I began reading in non fiction this year just bored me to tears after a hundred pages or so, and I moved on.
Patricia Briggs, Seanan McGuire and Faith Hunter continue to crank out new tales of their heroines, though I think that Jane Yellowrock may be retired at last in Final Heir.
Speaking of retiring, I am seriously peeved at the ending of the latest "woke" Bond film.
2022 wasn't a really great year in newly published amazing books. I've tried some new authors, but not much has stuck with me.
