2022 in reading: recommendations
Books recommendations from my 2022 reading
by Carl Bettis in Books
Condensed from my previous post: my top 3 poetry, top 3 fiction, and top 3 nonfiction recommendations from my 2022 reading.
- Poetry:
- The rehearsal of misunderstanding: three collections by contemporary Greek women poets, Karen Van Dyck, translator and author of introduction
- Mummy Eaters, Sherry Shenoda
- Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, Anne Carson
- Fiction:
- Another Country, James Baldwin
- The Hearing Trumpet, Leonora Carrington
- My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones
- Nonfiction:
- Barracoon, Zora Neale Hurston
- Hand to Mouth: The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World, Linda Tirado
- Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, Eduardo Galeano, translated by Mark Fried
