39 Great Novels to Set You Up for 2022

The titles in bold are the ones I love the most.

The ones with an asterisk (*) are not particularly relaxing.

The ones that say YA are written for teens (but loved by me).

1. House Rules by Jodi Piccoult
2. Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta (YA)
3. Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (YA)
4. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
5. The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
6. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
7. The Dry by Jane Harper
   
8. Force of Nature by Jane Harper
9. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver *
10. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
11. Where the Crawdads Sing by Dehlia Owens
12. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer
13. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (YA)
15. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
16. Jayne Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
17. The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
18. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
19. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
20. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
21. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
22. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
23. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
24. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
25. What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
26. Looking For Alibrandi by Melina Marcetta (YA)
27. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
28. The Bronze Horseman Trilogy by Paullina Simons
29. Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton*
30. The Light Between Oceans by M.L Stedman
31. The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
32. The Lost Man by Jane Harper
33. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult*
34. A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult*
35. Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
36. The Rip by Mark Brandi
37. I Do Not Come To You By Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
38. Wimmera by Mark Brandi*
39. The Lake House by Kate Morton

How many of these great reads have you ticked off?

Article supplied with thanks to Yvette Cherry. Yvette is a wife, mum to four little girls, worship ministry coordinator, and former English teacher.

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