Christopher Pitts's Blog

Favorite books from my extremely relevant one-person corner of the internet.

Best Fiction: The Financial Lives of the Poets


Best Nonfiction: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook


Best Historical: Comanche Moon


Best Book Club: No-No Boy


Honorable Mention: The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean


Most Similar to Celery in Terms of Calorie Count and Taste: Intimacies

Best Fiction: Lonesome Dove





Best Nonfiction: Chip War





Best Historical: Rickshaw Boy





Best Short Stories: Beijing Sprawl

My best books of 2023, none of which were published this year. :)

Best Fiction
Demon Copperhead

Best Nonfiction
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

Best Historical Fiction
The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi: Detective Stories of Old Edo

Best BD/Reread
Ailefroide : Altitude 3954

Looking at the Goodreads Choice Awards, I realized I hadn't read a single book nominated in any of the categories. So without further ado, my own favorite reads of 2022.

Fiction





Nonfiction





Historical Fiction





Best Reread: This one's a tie.





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