It’s only a few more days until the new year so I figured I’d actually post my reading list of 2022 early this year. But that also means that I may have cheated just a tiny bit with my last book (50!!!) because I’m not finished reading it yet, but I plan to finish before the 1st. Two standouts were Kelly Link’s newest collection, White Cat, Black Dog, (she never ceases to amaze me!) and Quan Barry’s When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East (it was exactly what I needed to read and it’s quiet and philosophical and enthralling). A few of these books were for work, many for fun, and I’m happy to talk about my opinions on any of them. Time loop stories seem to be a trend, judging from some of my work reading. My last dozen or so books read were definitely helped by a lack of wifi in the apartment this last month, so I’d recommend no wifi if you want to slow down and get a lot of reading done! Anyway, happy new year!
- Eat Up!– Ruby Tandoh (NF)
- Isaiah Dunn Saves the Day– Kelly J. Baptist (MG)
- Tales from the Inner City– Shaun Tan
- Objects of Desire– Clare Sestanovich
- A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting– Sophie Irwin
- Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America’s Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt– Daniel Barbarisi (NF)
- Creature– Shaun Tan (NF)
- Ali Cross: The Secret Detective– James Patterson (MG)
- Crying in H Mart– Michelle Zauner (NF)
- Ghosts– Dolly Alderton
- The Verifiers– Jane Pek
- My First Popsicle– edited by Zosia Mamet (NF)
- Defenestrate– Renée Branum
- The Measure– Nikki Erlick
- Monarch– Candice Wuehle
- The Book of Delights– Ross Gay (NF)
- The Night Ocean– Paul La Farge
- Midnight Strikes– Zeba Shahnaz (YA)
- White Cat, Black Dog– Kelly Link
- Southern Lady Code– Helen Ellis (NF)
- Several People Are Typing– Calvin Kasulke
- Brood– Jackie Polzin
- My Sister, the Serial Killer– Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Thank You, Mr. Nixon– Gish Jen
- When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East– Quan Barry
- Fiona & Jane– Jean Chen Ho
- Lessons in Chemistry– Bonnie Garmus
- We Ride Upon Sticks– Quan Barry
- Foster– Claire Keegan
- The Possibilities– Yael Goldstein-Love
- Disappearing Earth– Julia Phillips
- Groundskeeping– Lee Cole
- To the Lighthouse– Virginia Woolf
- The Lives of Christopher Chant– Diana Wynne Jones (reread)
- God’s Trombones– James Weldon Johnson
- A Ring of Endless Light– Madeleine L’Engle (reread)
- She Weeps Each Time You’re Born– Quan Barry
- The Golden Screen: The Movies that Made Asian America– Jeff Yang (NF)
- The Hearing Trumpet– Leonora Carrington
- Intimacies– Katie Kitamura
- Little Eyes– Samanta Schweblin, tr. Megan McDowell
- People From My Neighborhood– Hiromi Kawakami, tr. Ted Goossen
- The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit– Michael Finkel (NF)
- Exit West– Mohsin Hamid
- Girl, Interrupted– Susanna Kaysen (NF)
- The Nursery– Szilvia Molnar
- River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile– Candice Millard (NF)
- Educated: A Memoir– Tara Westover (NF)
- Lorna Mott Comes Home– Diane Johnson
- Stay True: A Memoir– Hua Hsu (NF)