Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes. I found a MacInnes spy novel that I hadn’t already read! Excellent. The setting is Austria and Germany, summer 1939, just before World War II exploded into the world.

Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede. Also, sequels Across the Great Barrier and The Far West. Wrede’s Enchanted Forest Chronicles, beginning with the book Dealing with Dragons, are excellent fantasy stories for children, and I can now say that her adult fantasy novels are just as good. Fantasy set in an alternate history reimagined American Midwest.

Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh. Murder, mystery, and Macbeth.

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

Klara and the Sun by Kashuo Ishiguro. Semicolon review of Klara and the Sun.

The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Semicolon review of The Blithedale Romance.

Elantris by Brandon Sanderson.

Bargain Bride by Evelyn Sibley Lampman. Semicolon review of Bargain Bride.

The Wooden Horse by Eric Williams. Novel based on a true story of escape from a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Hope at Worthwhile Books reviews The Wooden Horse.

The Fiddler’s Gun by A.S. Peterson. Also the sequel, Fiddler’s Green by A.S. Peterson. Pete Peterson on the origin of The Fiddler’s Gun. A Rabbit Room review of The Fiddler’s Gun.

The Hammer of God by Bo Giertz. The only adult fiction book to which I gave five stars on Goodreads. I think I read about this book in this Gospel Coalition article by Leland Ryken, The Best Christian Novel You’ve Never Heard Of. It’s very Lutheran novel, but nevertheless accessible to all “mere Christians.” It’s also quite preachy, written by a Swedish pastor, bishop, and theologian, but the preachiness is very much a part of the story and not at all sentimental or overbearing. This novel is the best adult novel I read in 2022.