Thursday, January 5, 2023

2022 Year in Books

Another year, and somehow an even longer list of books this year. I am starting to think I might be neglecting my kids, husband, family and friends.  But at least I am reading an eclectic variety of things!

A Calling for Charlie Barnes, Joshua Ferris

When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut

Our Country Friends, Gary Shteyngart

Beautiful World Where Are You, Sally Rooney

Tacky, Rax King

The Sentence, Louise Erdich 

Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr

Tell Me Lies (technically an audible) 

Born a Crime, Trevor Noah

But What If We Are Wrong, Chuck Klosterman

The Collective, Alison Gaylin

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson

Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead

The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah

Tell No One, Harlan Coben

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Play it Where it Lays, Joan Didion 

The Seven Sisters, Lucinda Riley 

Husband Material, Emily Belden

How Civil Wars Start, Barbara F Walter

Glory, NoViolet Bulawayo

When Women Kill, Alia Trabucco Zeran

Blood Sugar, Sascha Rothchold

The Storm Sister, Lucinda Riley

Treachery of Spies, Manda 

Trailed, Kathryn Miles

The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave

Peach Blossom Spring, Melissa Fu

The Island, Adrian McKinty

God’s Shadow, Alan Mikhail

I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy

The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcolm

Beowulf: A New Translation, Maria Dahvana Headley

Grendel, John Gardner

The Latecomer, Jean Hanff Korelitz

Four Lost Cities, Annalee Newitz

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

Anxious People, Fredrik Backman

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Daniel H Pink

Stranger Faces, Namwali Serpell 

Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Diary of a Void, Emi Yagi

Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change, W. David Marx

My Monticello, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

The Family Chao, Lan Samantha Chang

The Love Prescription, Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy, John M. Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD

The Deep Deep Snow, Brian Freeman

The Seven Husbands and Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Verity, Colleen Hoover 

Less is Lost, Andrew Sean Greer

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