The best books of 2022 for your summer reading list
ABCCongratulations — you made it to the end of yet another stranger-than-fiction year. This list of 2022 favourites from ABC's book experts — ranging from hot new Australian fiction to Booker Prize nominees, lesser-known gems and snackable morsels — has got you covered for summer. CN The Strangers by Katherena Vermette University of Queensland Press Vermette won the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry for her first book, North End Love Songs. Yet, for all the trouble he puts his characters through in his scalpel-sharp set-ups, there is never any doubt that it is the frail, the misguided, and the innocents who are Rosa's people: The story Short Stack convincingly portrays the inner world of a loser who genuinely enjoys working a dead-end job at a pancake parlour; Charlie in High Definition features the most adorably malevolent feline this side of Lucio Fulci's 1981 horror film The Black Cat. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy Bloomsbury Kennedy's debut novel has made a number of this year's best book lists including The Observer's 10 best debut novelists of 2022.
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Booker Prize 2020: Read this year’s winning novel and the previous top titles
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British Book Awards 2021: Nibbies winners announced
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10 great books that got lost in the noise of 2020
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Booker Prize 2020: Douglas Stuart wins coveted award for Shuggie Bain, debut novel set in 1980s Glasgow – Firstpost
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