Bursts of Color - Top 10 Books of 2022
In case you’re looking for reading ideas in the weeks ahead: here are ten books that stuck with me in 2022. Some were published this year; others are older and were just new for me.
Please keep sending me your ideas and recommendations too, as that’s how I decided to read most of these. Happy holidays!
Fiction
City on Fire - New England mobster drama from Don Winslow
The Orphan Masters Son - North Korean spies & politics; 2013 Pulitzer Prize
Radio Life - Derek B Miller’s take on dystopian fantasy
Razorblade Tears - a revenge thriller with heart
The World Played Chess - three interwoven coming-of-age tales
Non-Fiction
Blood and Oil - Succession and power in Saudi Arabia
Freezing Order - Bill Browder plays cat-and-mouse with Vladimir Putin
How Not to be Wrong - “the Freakonomics of math”
The Sixth Man - NBA star Andre Iguodala on sports, race and plenty more
Surrender - Bono of U2 has lived quite a life; the audio version has music too