Books Read in 2022
I read more books this year than I would have guessed. I had to look up my lowest total since 2009, since I didn’t remember it; back in 2011 I only finished reading 28 books, and it would be a whole ‘nother blog post to talk about why that particular year was so poor for reading, so I’ll just say when I rediscovered that was the year, I was not the least bit surprised. 2011 was a personal quagmire.
Anyway, this year! Here are the books I finished reading this year:
Books Read in 2022 — 38
Novels (12), Story Collections (5), and Non-Fiction (21)
- Writers and Lovers by Lily King
- The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
- Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
- Al Pacino in Conversation by Lawrence Grobel
- My Monticello by Jocelyn Noelle Johnson
- I Came All This Way to Meet You by Jami Attenberg
- A False Spring by Pat Jordan
- Power Ball: An Anatomy of the Modern Game by Rob Neyer
- Weather by Jenny Offill
- Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
- The Bad Guys Won by Jeff Pearlman
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- The Other Guys by Dave Housley
- The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
- Disgust: A Memoir by Stephanie Grant
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
- Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
- On The Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane by Emily Guendelsberger
- Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke by Andrew Maraniss
- The Mothers by Brit Bennett
- Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
- Raising Raffi by Keith Gessen
- Blackout by Erin Flanagan
- Rickey by Howard Bryant
- Raising Raffi by Keith Gessen
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
- The Family Chou by Lan Samantha Chang
- The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
- Heat 2 by Michael Mann
- Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke
- Stories No One Hopes Are about Them by AJ Bermudez
- The Woods by Janice Obuchowski
- Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman
- Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission by Mark Leibovich
- The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series by Tyler Kipner
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Whenever I review this list, I admit to feeling a bit guilty for not reading books that my writer-friends published this year. But, I imagine most writers have a lot of friends who also write books and they just can’t read all of them every single year.