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Books I Couldn't Shut Up About in 2022

Are these the top ten books I read this year? I don’t know. But they’re the ones that are sticking to my innards in some beautiful and uncomfortable ways.

The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell. Imagine if Ray Bradberry and Wendell Berry (Way Berry?) got together and wrote a novel about space exploration, colonization, religion, linguistics, the natural wor…