I read 93 books in 2022. Here are my favorites.

And everything else I read!

Another year has come and gone and it was another year of ups and downs. I lost another close friend when Lexi suddenly passed away in January and Dan & I got COVID in the summer. But, we also had our big wedding celebration, went on our honeymoon, and bought our first home! We were able to travel, see friends and family, and make great memories.

This year, I also started running after signing up for a half marathon out of the blue. While training, I began listening to audiobooks and really enjoyed them. I also gave myself permission to read (and listen to) whatever I wanted, instead of pushing myself to read nonfiction like I had the past few years. So, 2022 was definitely the year of fiction!

Like I do every year, I’ve listed my favorite books and all of the books I read this year with rankings. Check them out and let me know what you liked! In 2023, I will continue tracking my books on Goodreads, but I’m also committing to writing (short) reviews for every books. Keep an eye out!

Top 10 books I read in 2022 (in the order they were read)

Plus one extra for good luck!

1. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
2. The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
3. Several People are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
4. Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson
5. The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
6. Thin Girls by Diana Clarke
7. Tampa by Alissa Nutting (not for the faint of heart!!!)
8. My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
9. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Janette McCurdy
10. Schmutz by Felicia Berliner
11. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

Full list of everything I read in 2022 with ratings

Shoutout to the Brooklyn Public Library for supplying all of my Kindle books and audiobooks this year!

January

1. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock — 2 stars (this book sucked but it was a book club book)
2. Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard — 4 stars
3. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu — 5 stars
4. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy — 5 stars
5. All’s Well by Mona Awad — 5 stars
6. Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby — 5 stars
7. Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami — 5 years
8. Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor — 4 years

February

1. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood — 3 years
2. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead — 3 years
3. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr — 5 stars
4. Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder — 5 years

March

1. The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara — 4 stars
2. The Anomoly by Hervé Le Tellier — 3 stars
3. Yearbook by Seth Rogan — 4 stars
4. The Fisherman by Chigozie Obioma — 4 stars
5. The Idiot by Elif Batuman — 3 stars
6. Skinship by Yoon Choi — 5 stars

April

1. Lakewood by Megan Giddings — 4 stars
2. The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward — 5 stars
3. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam — 1 star (this book was offensively bad but I hadn’t downloaded any books for a flight and bought this in the airport)
4. High Spirits by Camille Gomera-Tavarez — 4 stars
5. What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons — 4 stars
6. Abandon Me: Memoirs by Melissa Febos — 4 stars
7. Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes — 4 stars

May

1. Several People are Typing by Calvin Kasulke — 5 stars
2. New Teeth by Simon Rich — 5 stars
3. Assembly by Natasha Brown — 5 stars
4. Notes on a Silencing by Laxy Crawford — 4 stars
5. One Year of Ugly by Caroline Mackenzie — 3 years
6. Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations by Simon Rich — 4 stars
7. Girlhood by Melissa Febos — 5 stars
8. Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson — 5 stars
9. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut — 3 years
10. Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Pauline Dakin — 3 years
11. Recitatif by Toni Morrison — 5 stars
12. So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder — 4 stars

June

1. Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh — 3 stars
2. The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan — 5 stars
3. The Pisces by Melissa Broder — 3 stars
4. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh — 3 stars
5. No Exit by Taylor Adams — 5 stars
6. To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara — 3 stars (I gave this book 3 stars even though I really didn’t like it, but I still loved A Little Life so much that I had to give this one more than 2 stars)
7. Verity by Colleen Hoover — 4 stars

July

1. For The Love of Autism: Stories of Love, Awareness and Acceptance on the Spectrum by Tamika Morales — 3 stars
2. Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett — 3 stars
3. Thin Girls by Diana Clarke — 5 stars
4. All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda — 3 stars
5. I’ll Be You by Janelle Brown — 3 stars
6. Hello Molly!: A Memoir by Molly Shannon — 5 stars
7. Passing by Nella Larson — 4 stars
8. The Temps by Andrew DeYoung — 4 stars
9. Whip Smart: A Memoir by Melissa Febos — 4 years

August

1. Wayward by Dana Spiotta — 3 stars
2. Intamacies by Katie Kitamura — 4 stars
3. We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz — 1 star
4. Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell — 4 stars
5. The Passenger by Lisa Lutz — 4 stars

September

1. Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley — 4 stars
2. Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine — 4 years
3. Girls of a Certain Age by Maria Adelmann — 4 stars
4. Tampa by Alissa Nutting — 5 stars
5. I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins — 4 stars
6. The Best of Me by David Sedaris — 4 stars
7. My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki — 5 stars
8. Stinetinglers by R.L. Stine — 3 stars

October

1. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Janette McCurdy — 5 stars
2. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad — 4 stars
3. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki — 4 stars
4. The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins — 3 stars
5. Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar — 3 stars
6. Shiner by Amy Jo Burns — 5 stars
7. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield — 5 stars

November

1. Lanny by Max Porter — 4 stars
2. The Door by Maga Szabó — 2 stars
3. The Hop by Diana Clarke — 5 stars
4. Fix by J. Albert Mann — 4 stars
5. My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson — 5 stars
6. The Lost Village by Camilla Sten — 4 stars
7. Schmutz by Felicia Berliner — 5 stars
8. Dark Sparkler by Amber Tamblyn — 4 stars

December

1. The Trees by Percival Everett — 4 stars
2. Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho — 2 stars
3. The Children on the Hill by Jeniffer McMahon — 4 stars
4. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica — 5 stars
5. The Sandman by Lars Kepler — 4 stars
6. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry — 3 stars
7. Earthlings by Sayaka Murata — 4 stars
8. The Shadows by Alex North — 5 stars
9. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa — 4 stars
10. Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill — 4 stars
11. Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel — 3 stars