Narrowing down my 2022 reading list to a short selection of favorites was difficult, but I managed.

• Flames of Hope (Wings of Fire #15)
by Tui T. Sutherland
I loved all 22 books connected to this series.

• The Last Graduate (The Scholomance Series, Book 2)
• The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance Series, Book 3)
by Naomi Novik
Last year’s list included
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance Series, Book 1)

• The Shelterlings
by Sarah Beth Durst

• All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries books #1)
• Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries books #2)
• Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries books #3)
• Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries books #4)
by Martha Wells

• To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
by Christopher Paolini

And, I’ll add to my favorites for 2022 a streaming series.

• Dreamworks’ Dragons Rescue Riders
(29 Netflix episodes followed by 24 Peacock episodes)

Dragons Rescue Riders is based in the Dreamworks How to Train Your Dragon universe, but unlike all of the other entries in that movie and TV franchise, which are stories about humans with sidekick dragons, Dragons Rescue Riders is about the dragons and their two human friends who can understand the dragon language. (Precedent was set in Cressida Cowell’s original How to Train Your Dragon books where Hiccup could speak dragonese.) The characters are wonderful, the stories are fun with great foreshadowing of future episodes and callbacks to previous episodes, and layering of complexity, inspirations, jokes, and insights. I loved it.

My favorite 2021 reads and a movie:

• The Poison Jungle (Wings of Fire 13)
• Dragonslayer (Wings of Fire: Legends 2)
• The Dangerous Gift (Wings of Fire 14)
by Tui T. Sutherland

• A Deadly Education: A Novel
by Naomi Novik

• The House in the Cerulean Sea
by TJ Klune

• Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)

Among my favorite reads during 2020 (not necessarily published in 2020) are the following books.

• Dragonslayer (Wings of Fire: Legends #2) by Tui T. Sutherland

• Spark by Sarah Beth Durst (this was a re-read after having read it in 2019 because I really liked the book)

• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

• Cities: The First 6,000 Years by Monica L. Smith

• Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin

• Don’t Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language by David Shariatmadari

I read a variety of books this year. These six are among my favorite genre reads in 2019 (not necessarily published in 2019).

• The Hive Queen (Wings of Fire #12) by Tui T. Sutherland
• The Poison Jungle (Wings of Fire #13) by Tui T. Sutherland
• Spark by Sarah Beth Durst
• The Girl with the Dragon Heart by Stephanie Burgis
• The Princess Who Flew with Dragons by Stephanie Burgis
• Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2) by Ann Leckie

I read quite a few books this year. Science fiction, fantasy, science fact, memoirs, current affairs, history, skill building, and self help are a few of their categories. I learned many things and I was entertained. These six are among my favorite reads in 2018.

• The Lost Continent (Wings of Fire #11) by Tui T. Sutherland
• Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
• Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
• My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
• Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover