Bookworm
We're only a quarter of the way through 2022, but already Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker have compiled a list of the fourteen best books of the year, thus far, on behalf of BBC Culture. Not ten. Not fifteen. And, fortunately, not twenty. Fourteen.
I think that's more than I've read in my entire life. But I feel neither despondent nor inferior, because I don't believe that our culture vultures have read all of the candidates themselves. Firstly, they split the load between them. Secondly, they fall back on reviews written by other culture vultures, who've presumably actually read these worthy tomes. (nerd)
So, then, it's a list of fourteen books to leave casually lying on your coffee table. (shrug)