Mid-Year Update: 2022 Top Ten (so far, anyway)

I have read some amazing books already this year, along with a fair amount of mindless schlock. Here are the top ten, so far:

1. All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville West
2. Caste: the Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
3. In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
4. The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott – this is really an inclusion of Scott’s entire Raj Quartet. I am in the last half of book 4 right now, and will write a review of the whole series once I finish.
5. Jubilee by Margaret Walker
6. The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
7. The Least of Us by Sam Quinones
8. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
9. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
10. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin