2022 Wrap Up

Books I Read in 2022

Literary Fiction

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman, translated by Henning Koch

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, translated Henning Koch

Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Memoir/Personal Essay

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 

Note to Self by Connor Franta

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Personal Essay(s)

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Thriller

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

Room by Emma Donoghue

Science Fiction

Light Years from Home by Mike Chen

Romance

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain, translated by Jane Aitken & Emily Boyce

All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata

November 9 by Colleen Hoover

Neon Gods by Katee Robert

The Lotus Palace by Jeannie Lin

The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks

One Last Stop by Casey McQuinston

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Classics

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Stranger by Albert Camus

1984 by George Orwell

The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Dhammapada translated by Juan Mascaró

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Children's Literature 

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Peter Ban by J.M. Barrie

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (2 times)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

Young Adult Literature 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Self-Improvement

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do by Amy Morin

The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg 

When Likes Aren't Enough: A Crash Course in the Science of Happiness by Tim Bono

Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment by Tal Ben-Shahar

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness by Sylvia Boorstein

How Successful People Think by John C. Maxwell

He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo

Graphic Novel

Sandcastle by Frederik Peeters and Pierre Oscar Lévy

Nonfiction

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis

The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment by Thom Hartman

The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture by Roger J. Davies and Osamu Ikeno

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