The #Bookvent Calendar 2022 – Day One

Jen Lucas

Dec 1

#Bookvent - Celebrating my top reads of 2022

It's that time again. The time where is start to list my favourite reads of 2022. It's been a great year for books this year and a really difficult year for me in choosing which ones make my top twenty four titles. Again. And it will be a top twenty four this year, unlike the last couple of years, one a day right through to Christmas Eve. I could easily have made if a top twenty five or twenty six, and believe me it's been hard narrowing down the final few books, but I made myself do it.

Now for the uninitiated, my #bookvent has some very simple rules, all designed to try and help me narrow down the list from 160+ books to just the 24. First of all, the books must have been published in 2022. Second of all, if they were awarded a red-hot-read badge, they are automatically included. That takes care of quite a few, I tell ya. The books are featured in the order in which they appeared on the blog with the exception of those featured on 22-24 December which, this year at least, are my top three reads of 2022, with my book of the year featured on 24th.

I do have some very important honourable mentions too. These are three books that I read this year but which were published in 2021, so don't technically qualify for this year's Bookvent list. They are too good not to mention though so they will get a very special feature over the final three days of #bookvent as, in any other circumstance, I really do think they would have been right up there as potential books of the year.

I have only one exception to the rules year, and that is purely because the book was published on New Year's Eve 2021, so missed out on a place in the 2021 countdown. As you can imagine, it was one of the earliest reviews of 2022, and that makes it my day one #bookvent. The book is also unique in that I think it's possibly the only none crime book in the whole list. It's part of a series I adore, from an author who never fails to bring a smile to my face (and a tear to my eye). I might not do much in the chick-lit/romance genre, but when I do, they're always crackers.

My day one #bookvent choice is …