2022 Reading List

Previous years’ reading lists: 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

Asterisked works were read in 2023 but in time to be considered for the 2022 Hugos.

2022 Novels:

• Spelunking Through Hell, Seanan McGuire
• The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd
• Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
• The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi
• The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison
• Be the Serpent, Seanan McGuire
• The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal
• The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik
• Station Eternity, Mur Lafferty
• The World We Make, N.K. Jemisin
• Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

2022 Novellas:

• Where the Drowned Girls Go, Seanan McGuire
• Escape from Yokai Land, Charles Stross
• Femmes Fatale, Erik Scott de Die and Amanda Cherry

2022 Short Stories:

• “Sacrifice Your Tears”, Seanan McGuire
• “Ghost Lights”, Seanan McGuire
• “In Mercy, Rain”, Seanan McGuire
• “Long Way From Home”, Seanan McGuire
• “Those Three Girls from Rush’s Bend”, Seanan McGuire

2022 YA Stories (Lodestar):

• Tiger Honor, Yoon Ha Lee
• Into the Windwracked Wilds, A. Deborah Baker
• Illuminations, T. Kingfisher*

Non-2022 works read in 2022:

• Paladin’s Grace, T. Kingfisher
• Paladin’s Strength, T. Kingfisher
• Paladin’s Hope, T. Kingfisher
• The Past Is Red, Catherynne M. Valente
• Comfort Me With Apples, Catherynne M. Valente
• The Future is Blue, Catherynne M. Valente
• Square³, Mira Grant
• Dead Lies Dreaming, Charles Stross
• Quantum of Nightmares, Charles Stross
• Alien: Echo, Mira Grant
• Peace Talks, Jim Butcher
• Battle Ground, Jim Butcher
• (Five and a half years’ worth of Patreon stories by Seanan McGuire)
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers
• A Spindle Splintered, Alix Harrow
• Light from Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki
• A Master of Djinn, P. Djeli Clark
• Stormsong, C.L. Polk
• Soulstar, C.L. Polk
• She Who Became the Sun, Shelly Parker-Chan
• Fireheart Tiger, Aliette de Bodard
• “Bots of the Lost Ark”, Suzanne Palmer
• “Colors of the Immortal Palette”, Caroline M. Yoachim
• “L’Esprit de L’Escalier”, Catherynne Valente
• “O2 Arena”, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
• “That Story Isn’t the Story”, John Wiswell
• “Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.”, Fran Wilde
• “The Sin of America”, Catherynne Valente
• “Proof by Induction”, José Pablo Iriarte
• “Tangles”, Seanan McGuire
• “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”, Sarah Pinsker
• Seasonal Fears, Seanan McGuire
• Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao
• The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison
• Artemis, Andy Weir
• A Darker Shade of Magic, V.E. Schwab
• A Gathering of Shadows, V.E. Schwab
• A Conjuring of Light, V.E. Schwab
• The “Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac” series, Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti
• The Dispatcher: Murder by Other Means, John Scalzi