Mike Thorn’s favorite first reads of 2022

Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe (1722)
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray (1847)
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens (1850)
The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot (1860)
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy (1895)
The Ambassadors, by Henry James (1903)
Light in August, by William Faulkner (1932)
The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West (1939)
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison (1952)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, by Flannery O’Connor (1955)
How It Is, by Samuel Beckett (1961)
Pop. 1280, by Jim Thompson (1964)
The Stone Angel, by Margaret Laurence (1964)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson (1971)
Yonnondio, by Tillie Olsen (1974)
Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko (1977)
If You Could See Me Now, by Peter Straub (1977)
Who Do You Think You Are?, by Alice Munro (1977)
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood (1985)
Beloved, by Toni Morrison (1987)
Bastard Out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison (1992)
Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground, by Michael Moynihan & Didrik Søderlind (1998)
Ordinary Affects, by Kathleen Stewart (2007)
Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward (2011)
Tenth of December, by George Saunders (2013)
Suicide Stitch, by Sarah L. Johnson (2016)
Christopher Wild, by Kathe Koja (2017)
The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead (2019)
The Low, Low Woods, by Carmen Maria Machado & DaNi (2020)