Meanwhile, all of us bookworms - and bookloons - will continue to find relief for harsh world news in reading. We have recommendations below, based on the best of our 2022 reading. These are mainly hardcovers - find rave reads most likely published in paperback in 2022 in our Recommended Reads 2021.

Contemporary	Fantasy	Historical
Black Cake Mad Honey Memphis	Book of Night Kagen the Damned Servant Mage	The House of Fortune The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle The White Hare
Mystery	Mystery-Cozy	Mystery-Historical
Blackwater Falls The Murder Rule Things We Do in the Dark	Dashing Through the Snowbirds The Fragrance of Death Secrets of the Nile	December '41 A Sunlit Weapon The Unkept Woman
Mystery-International	Mystery-Thriller	SF
Dark Music The Shadow Murders Wild Prey	The Chase Girl, Forgotten Last Seen Alive	The Kaiju Preservation Society Mickey7 Ocean's Echo
Non-Fiction	YA Fiction	Books for WeeLoons
Beautiful Country Keep Sharp The Normans	A Mirror Mended These Deadly Games Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves	Cress Watercress I'll Go and Come Back Marco Polo Brave Explorer
Find more book gift suggestions in our many previous Holiday Columns.
All of us at BookLoons wish you and your loved ones better and safer times, the happiest of holidays, and a joyous, peaceful, prosperous and healthy 2023!!