Flashback to 2022: all-time favorites

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8/9/22

I made a Kindle category called "all-time favorites" and here's what on it. (This is in the mysterious order that the Paperwhite arranges things in lately - I don't really understand it.) (So effectively, no particular order!)

Winterkeep
Knife Children (a novella)
Leah on the Offbeat
How to Go to Hell in 10,000 Easy Steps
Penric's Fox (novella)
Strange Practice
Every Heart a Doorway
Nemesis Games
The Martian
Howl's Moving Castle
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings (if I had to pick one volume, I'd go with Two Towers)
Ready Player One
Good Omens
Leviathan Wakes
The Civil War vol. 2 (meaning the Shelby Foote books)
Doomsday Book
Jonathan Strange and Mr.Norrell
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Paladin of Souls
Coraline
Fire
Emma
Persuasion
Sense & Sensibility
Rosemary & Rue
The Magicians
The Murder at the Vicarage
Neverwhere
The Blue Sword
Foreigner
Game of Thrones
Spindle's End
Pride and Prejudice

I'm sure I'll tinker with this over time but that's a pretty fair rendition of the things I adore. (Although, huh, did I not put Graceling in? I'd say I love it more than Winterkeep.) (added: oh wait, Fire is there too. I think I didn't notice that at the time. But Fire is the one I usually say I love the most out of the original three there.)

This is 36 books, but I didn't pick a certain number or anything. There's clearly some things I missed (Graceling) and some where I still don't have them as e-books (Dune, Golden Compass, maybe I Capture the Castle?)

There's a good many things that I used to would have put in but now didn't - The Stand and The Dark Tower, for example. The non-horror King books haven't held up all that well, for me, that I'd still class them this high. Cassie Clare, ditto. (Although I happen to be reading Clockwork Angel right now.)

Anyway, I'd say this gets you pretty close on what I love - fantasy, SF, and Jane Austen, with some other genres occasionally thrown in!