Pace Setter : January 2023

Best Books of 2022

by Mark Mindel and Sally Drake

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Mark Mindel’s Top Ten Books

10. James Patterson, My Life by James Patterson

9. No Plan B, by Lee Child

8. The Life We Bury, by Allen Jenkins

7 Lyrics, by Paul McCartney

6. The Investigator, by John Sandford

5. Righteous Prey, by John Sandford

4. Hotel Nantucket, by Elin Hilderbrand

3. Reminders of Him, by Colleen Hoover

2. The Maid, by Nita Prose

1. RUN ROSE RUN BY JAMES PATTERSON AND DOLLY PARTON

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Sally Drake’s Top Ten Books

Happy New Year! My top 10 books of 2022 (in the order read):

—The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

—Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh

—In Love: A Memoir of Loss and Love by Amy Bloom

—Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen

—The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

—The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela

—Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

—Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

—The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama

—Dead End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto

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