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Favorite reads of 2022:
Fiction (in order read):

• Miss Mole, E. H. Young, 1930
  
• Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
  
• A Lost Lady, Willa Cather, 1923
  
• The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett, 1896
  
• The Feast, Margaret Kennedy, 1950
  
• The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989
  
• Father, Elizabeth von Arnim, 1931
  
• Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan, 2021
  
• The Fortnight in September, R. C. Sherriff, 1931

Nonfiction (in order read):

• On Tyranny Graphic Edition, Timothy Snyder, 2021; thoughts on the threat to democracy; even more powerful in this graphic book edition
  
• Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure, Arthur Conan Doyle, originally 1880; this edition 2012; 1880 memoir of Conan Doyle's time on a whaling ship as medical officer; this 2012 facsimile edition of his journal includes photographs from the expedition and historical background
  
• Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm, David Mas Masumoto, 1995; memoir of running a family farm and Japanese American heritage
  
• A Chelsea Concerto, Frances Faviell, 1959; memoir of living through the London Blitz during WWII
• Our America: A Photographic History, Ken Burns, 2022; stunning historical American photographs selected by Burns

Re-reading Classics is my greatest comfort; I re-read 29 novels in 2022, most by audiobook. Books that were even more wonderful on re-reading were (in order read):

• David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  
• Under the Greenwood Tree, Thomas Hardy
  
• North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
  
• The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
  
• Middlemarch, George Eliot

Here are my 2023 threads:
75ers: https://www.librarything.com/topic/347268#
Category Challenge https://www.librarything.com/topic/347256#