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Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2022

Feature and Contest

Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2022

Over the last two months, we asked you to share both your favorite book that you read with your book group and your favorite book that you read outside your group in 2022.

The results are in! Below are the top 10 selected titles in each category.

A special congratulations to our contest winner, Mary Lou D. from Washingtonville, NY, who won six fabulous book group titles releasing this year: CODE NAME SAPPHIRE by Pam Jenoff, HELLO BEAUTIFUL by Ann Napolitano, THE HOUSE OF EVE by Sadeqa Johnson, LOYALTY by Lisa Scottoline, THE MITFORD AFFAIR by Marie Benedict, and MOONRISE OVER NEW JESSUP by Jamila Minnicks.

 

 

Top 10 Books Read with Your Group:
LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus
HORSE by Geraldine Brooks
THE MAID by Nita Prose
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY by Amor Towles
THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
BLACK CAKE by Charmaine Wilkerson
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES by Shelby Van Pelt
THE VIOLIN CONSPIRACY by Brendan Slocumb
MAD HONEY by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
WEST WITH GIRAFFES by Lynda Rutledge
 

Top 10 Books Read Outside of Your Group:
LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES by Shelby Van Pelt
HORSE by Geraldine Brooks
MAD HONEY by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY by Amor Towles
DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver
BLACK CAKE by Charmaine Wilkerson
FELLOWSHIP POINT by Alice Elliott Dark
CLOUD CUCKOO LAND by Anthony Doerr
TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin