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Books I'm looking forward to reading in 2022

In addition to my general magpie-like reading and obsessive collecting and enormous TBR, there are some specific books I'm looking forward to reading in 2022.  Here are some that came out in 2021 and I didn't get to last year: M. John Harrison, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again  Lavie Tidhar, The Escapement  Samuel R. Delany, Occasional Views part 1 and Of Solids and Surds  Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly [Currently reading it. Thank you, Toronto Public Library!] Also v. much looking forward to these books being released this year (2022): Jennifer Egan, The Candy House Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob Ryan North,  How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain Nicola Griffith, Spear Adam Roberts, The This Sandra Newman, The Men Tim Pratt, Prisoners of Sleep John Crowley, Flint and Mirror What an incredible list for 2022 releases already!
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2021 in reading

In 2021, I twitter-threaded books I read, and reached 100 by the time the year ended. Go me.  This is an undercount as I did not list partially-read books, short comic books and graphic novels (for example, Hem by Jason, even though I liked it quite a lot), or re-reads (with a couple of exceptions). I did not see many movies or TV shows and it was, well, 2021 (COVID-19, now with added omicron), so I didn't see my usual number of concerts or plays. So this list is probably longer than it would've been in a more normal year.  Books were my   escape outside of the pandemic walls. When I wasn't reading, I was often doing book-related activities: I followed writers on twitter, read reviews, checked best of the year lists, marked books that sounded intriguing. I made lots of lists.  Also, I bought a lot of books. My TBR is even more ridiculous than it was when the year started. Buying likely-looking (and inexpensive) books from  bookoutlet.ca was a pastime--as wel...
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