60 Books I read in 2022
Rounding out to a delightfully even number, I read 60 complete books in 2022 — with plenty others left unfinished.
Here’s the list, but you can find links to my favorites at INPUTS [a Bookshop curated by Sarah Duet]…
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir by Matthew Perry
A World of Curiosities (Novel) by Louise Penny
One Jump at a Time: My Story by Nathan Chen
One Step Too Far (Novel) by Lisa Gardner
Create Dangerously: The Power and Responsibility of the Artist by Albert Camus
Why I Wake Early (Selected Essays) by Mary Oliver
Upstream (Poems) by Mary Oliver
Unsettling: Surviving Extinction Together by Elizabeth Weinberg
These Silent Woods (Novel) by Kimi Cunningham Grant
Tools for Grassroots Activists: Best Practices for Success in the Environmental Movement published by Patagonia
Leavings (Poems) by Wendell Berry
Fallout (Novel) by Sara Paretsky
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘em Dead (Novel) by Elle Cosimano
Appointed to Die (Novel) by Kate Charles
Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke
Jesus Revealed: The I AM Statements in John’s Gospel by Matt Rawle
Grabbin’ the Bag by Rob Bell
Handling Your Fire by Rob Bell
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes
We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation by Eric Garcia
The Woman in the Library (Novel) by Sulari Gentill
Who is Vera Kelly? (Novel) by Rosalie Knecht
The House Across the Lake (Novel) by Riley Sager
Save Yourself: A Memoir by Cameron Esposito
Caged (Novel) by Ellison Cooper
Buried (Novel) by Ellison Cooper
Cut to the Bone (Novel) by Ellison Cooper
Refuse to be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts by Matt Bell
Murder, She Wrote: Killing in a Koi Pond (Novel) by Jessica Fletcher, Terrie Farley Moran
Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life by Jonathan Van Ness
Before She Disappeared (Novel) by Lisa Gardner
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
Finlay Donovan is Killing It (Novel) by Elle Cosimano
Eleutheria (Novel) by Allegra Hyde
Before & After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book by Courtney Maum
Death in Holy Orders: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery (Novel) by P.D. James
Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season (Novel) by Jessica Fletcher, Jon Land
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby
Murder, She Wrote: The Murder of Twelve (Novel) by Jessica Fletcher, Jon Land
Murder, She Wrote: A Time for Murder (Novel) by Jessica Fletcher, Jon Land
Murder, She Wrote: Manuscript for Murder (Novel) by Jessica Fletcher, Jon Land
Murder, She Wrote: Coffee, Tea, or Murder (Novel) by Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown
Then She Was Gone (Novel) by Lisa Jewell
The Temps (Novel) by Andrew DeYoung
The Hangman (Novella) by Louise Penny
The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
We Were 8 Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Your Wound / My Garden (Poems) by ALOK
Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream by Scott Erickson
Matrix (Novel) by Lauren Groff
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel
The Last Thing He Told Me (Novel) by Laura Dave
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman
I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro