2022 Reading List
With 2021's end closely approaching, it's another favorite time of the year for me: finalizing my 2022 Reading List and goals! But first, let's recap 2021.
I set my reading goal at 40 books that I increased to 46 during the year because of children's books and DNF's. I will finish the year with 63 or 64 books completed (depending on if I get my book club book finished before the 31st, lol). This has been a steady improvement from 2019, when I consider myself to have gotten back into reading. My total number of books read that year was 21 (with the original goal of 16). My goal in 2020 was 36 books, and I ended up reading 42. A goal I did not meet in 2021 was reading all of Jane Austen's books. I got through two, got stuck on Mansfield Park, and didn't move on to another of her books instead. I would at least like to read Emma or Persuasion in 2022, and then maybe we'll go from there. I also said I would aim to read a bit more fiction in 2021 since 2020 was memoir/biography and nonfiction heavy. While I still read more nonfiction than not, my ratio was about 50/50 as opposed to previous years where it was more of a 60/40 or 70/30 situation. You should read what you love, but I've reminded myself that it's a good thing to switch up genres. Especially if you find yourself in a reading slump.
While I could be super ambitious and pick a reading goal like 75 or 100 books for next year, I think I'm going to keep it semi-modest again and set a goal for 50 books in 2022. It's an increase from 2021, but still a number I won't feel too overwhelmed with. Within that, I think I'd like to explore more fantasy (even though you won't really see that in the below sections) and more horrors/thrillers. I want to branch out some but also feel free to fall back on those comfort genres I know I'll enjoy.
I'll continue posting reviews here, which will also be on my GoodReads profile. If you're on TikTok, give me a follow! I've started a #booktok account that I'd like to really grow and build a community on. I have an Amazon Wishlist dedicated to books as well, and am always open for doing a book swap and/or book annotations (send me a book you'd like annotated, and I'll do the same)! Lastly, the "Don't Overthink It" Reading Challenge is from Modern Mrs. Darcy, where I got my 2021 Community Reading Challenge. Here's to reading more in 2022!
2022 Reading List
Book Club Reading List
January: Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer ✅
February: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates ✅
March/April: Circe by Madeline Miller ✅
May/June: November 9 by Colleen Hoover ❌
July/August: A Time for Mercy by John Grisham ❌
September/October: Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell ✅
November/December: One Day in December by Josie Silver ✅
"Don't Overthink It" 2022 Reading Challenge
A book you've been meaning to read: The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald ❌
A book you chose because of the cover: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner ✅
A book chosen for you by your spouse: Florida by Lauren Groff ✅
A book previously abandoned: The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson ❌
A book in the backlist of a new favorite author: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller ✅
A memoir, biography, or book of creative nonfiction: The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls ✅
A book from your childhood: Josefina: An American Girl by Valerie Tripp ✅
A book published before you were born: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway ✅
Three books by the same author: John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat ✅
Of Mice and Men ✅
Cannery Row ✅
A book recommended by your local librarian or bookseller: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid ✅
A book about a topic or subject you already love: Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America by Benjamin Woolley
A book nominated for an award this year (2021): The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey ✅
Other Titles I'd Like to Read
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
Letters from Hawaii by Mark Twain
Read - In Order
`Wait for It by Jenn McKinlay
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
`The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Josefina: An American Girl by Valerie Tripp
The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer
^Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Hawaiian Folk Tales: A Collection of Native Legends by Thomas G. Thrum
^Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
~Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
^The Iliad by Homer
~Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
`The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Anne Brashares
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
^A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
^The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus by Lee Strobel
The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
`Florida by Lauren Groff
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How to Be a Good Creature by Sy Montgomery
~Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
~`The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
`On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
^Circe by Madeline Miller
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain by Tom Vitale
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
`Note to Self by Connor Franta
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
`Yerba Buena by Nina Cour
~Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
~The Guncle by Steven Rowley
~Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
`City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
~The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O'Neill
~The Tea Dragon Festival by Kay O'Neill
~The Tea Dragon Tapestry by Kay O'Neill
~Taproot by Keezy Young
`Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguichi
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
`The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
Heartstopper: Vol. 1 by Alice Oseman
~If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
~I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Heartstopper: Vol. 2 by Alice Oseman
Heartstopper: Vol. 3 by Alice Oseman
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Heartstopper: Vol. 4 by Alice Oseman
`The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
`The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Bloom by Kevin Panetta, Savanna Ganucheau (Illustrator)
Lore Olympus: Vol. 1 by Rachel Smythe
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
/ The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh
/ The Blouse by Bastien Vives
/ My Nemesis by Charmaine Craig
~The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
/ Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
/ The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Out of the Blue by Jason June
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
~Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
~Bunny by Mona Awad
Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman
Galatea: A Short Story by Madeline Miller
The Secret Bridesmaid by Katy Birchall
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin
~Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Mythos by Stephen Fry
/ The Frederick Sisters are Living the Dream by Jeannie Zusy
~When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
/ The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
/ Phaedra by Laura Shepperson
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
/ Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
~Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
~Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
/ Heartbreak Boys by Simon James Green
~Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
~Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
/ Not the Plan by Gia de Cadenet
Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band by Christian Staebler
/ My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Tiny Love Stories: True Tales of Love in 100 Words or Less by Daniel Jones
^The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
`Meet Me in Paradise by Libby Hubscher
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
There There by Tommy Orange
~This Place: 150 Years Retold by Multiple Authors
~Crumbs by Danie Sterling
/ What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety by Cole Kazdin
~Red Island House by Andrea Lee
~Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress
`Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Babel by R.F. Kuang
`One Day in December by Josie Silver
Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison
/ The Shadow of Perseus by Claire Heywood
Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun
The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake
Did Not Finish Reading
`Dubliners by James Joyce
~The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D
`The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Wolfsong: Moonrise #1 by Ignatz Dovidans
The Car Share by Zoe Brisby
`The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
`November 9 by Colleen Hoover
`The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More by Annie Raser-Rowland and Adam Grubb
~ Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane
~A Time for Mercy by John Grisham
~Land: How Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
~The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly
Key * Books I am currently actively reading ^ Books from my attic ~ Library books I've borrowed ` Unhauled
/ Advanced Reader Copies
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