And there we go. In a twist ending, I finished eight novels in December, a bigger chunk than I had in any other month of 2022. That brings me up to 15 books for the past three months, and 52 for the year overall, which is still a little less than has been typical in recent years; I suspect some of that is that I've been starting more things without finishing them, and getting further in before I give them up, but since books I don't finish is not one of the things I keep a record of (I worry it would be dispiriting), it's hard to say for sure.
I'll post the full year's list immediately in the comments here (meaning cohost, but if you're seeing this mirrored on facebook, I'll put it there, too), and sometime later I'll follow up with another comment with statistics about author demographics and such.
October
Kathleen Jennings - Flyaway
Sarah Thankam Matthews - All This Could Be Different
Kelly Robson - High Times in the Low Parliament
Simon Jimenez - The Spear Cuts Through Water
November
Ruthanna Emrys - A Half-Built Garden
Nghi Vo - Siren Queen
Peng Shepherd - The Cartographers
December
Ashley Herring Blake - Delilah Green Doesn't Care
R. F. Kuang - Babel, or, The Necessity of Violence
Naseem Jamnia - The Bruising of Qilwa
Graydon Saunders - Safely You Deliver
K. Tempest Bradford - Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion
Robin McKinley - Chalice
Candas Jane Dorsey - A Paradigm of Earth
Isaac Fellman - The Two Doctors Górski