#2022 book list

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2022 Book List

Here’s all the books I read in 2022. It’s a lot fewer than 2021, but not bad. Hopefully now that I’ve graduated college I’ll get a chance to do a bit of research and update my TBR so I can get back to reading more again. I did get to visit four new libraries this year though, so that’s fun :)

Our Violent Ends [These Violent Delights: 2] - Chloe Gong

Black Sun [Between Earth and Sky: 1] - Rebecca Roanhorse

Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Bad Beginning [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 1] - Lemony Snicket

The Reptile Room [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 2] - Lemony Snicket

The Wide Window [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 3] - Lemony Snicket

The Miserable Mill [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 4] - Lemony Snicket

The Austere Academy [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 5] - Lemony Snicket

The Ersatz Elevator [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 6] - Lemony Snicket

The Vile Village [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 7] - Lemony Snicket

The Hostile Hospital [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 8] - Lemony Snicket

The Carnivorous Carnival [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 9] - Lemony Snicket

The Slippery Slope [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 10] - Lemony Snicket

The Grim Grotto [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 11] - Lemony Snicket

The Penultimate Peril [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 12] - Lemony Snicket

The End [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 13] - Lemony Snicket

An Abundance of Katherines - John Green

Turtles All the Way Down - John Green

Looking for Alaska - John Green

Paper Towns - John Green

The Unauthorized Autobiography - Lemony Snicket

This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

Fevered Star [Between Earth and Sky: 2] - Rebecca Roanhorse

Gallant - V. E. Schwab

The Atlas Six [The Atlas Series: 1] - Olivie Blake

I Must Betray You - Ruta Sepetys

Elektra - Jennifer Saint

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel

The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks [Montague Siblings: 3] - Mackenzi Lee

The Invisible Library [Invisible Library: 1] - Genevieve Cogman

Last Night in Montreal - Emily St. John Mandel

The Lola Quartet - Emily St. John Mandel

Black Water Sister - Zen Cho

Lore - Alexandra Bracken

The Masked City [Invisible Library: 2] - Genevieve Cogman

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes [The Hunger Games: 0] - Suzanne Collins

The Singer’s Gun - Emily St. John Mandel

Ace of Spades - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Forever, interrupted - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio

Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel

After I Do - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Burning Page [Invisible Library: 3] - Genevieve Cogman

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution - R. F. Kuang

Carrie Soto is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Atlas Paradox [The Atlas Series: 2] - Olivie Blake

Foul Lady Fortune [Foul Lady Fortune: 1] - Chloe Gong

Alone with you in the ether - Olivie Blake

[krazieka2]

bunch of different pieces from a bunch of different zines! wooooo

[moonkissedmeli]

literally not a single soul asked

but, i'm going to share anyway. here are my favorite reads this year in no particular order:

Fiction - Novels

Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" (Honestly, a masterpiece. I can't wait to devour his entire library. Read it. No notes.)

Leo Tolstoy's "Ana Karenina" (If you're looking for your next existential crisis, here ya go.)

Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" (I know I'm super late reading this and the whole world has already been in love with it for ages, now I finally know why.)

Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (In all fairness, this is on my list every year).

Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein" (This is also always on my list, idec. Shelly's monster may teach you a bit about being human.)

Stephen's Fry's "Mythos" (Honestly, just a super fun read. Really good starting point if you're a budding Hellenic or into ancient Greek mythology, in my opinion. As long as you take it as a starting off point for further research and understand that he has put it together to be entertaining.)

Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" (You will never love a book so much where 97% of the characters and their actions are entirely insufferable. You might wonder why you began, but won't be able to stop and will be grateful that you didn't. Handsomely and meticulously written, as well.)

Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian" (Historians, anthropologists, romance, and vampires. Chef's kiss.)

Madeline Miller's "Circe" (I JUST LOVE IT OKAY)

Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" (I will never take criticism about this book. No notes, lmao.)

Fiction - Novellas

H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwitch Horror"

H.P. Lovecraft's "The Lost City"

H.P. Lovecraft's "The Festival"

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla"

Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" (Every moment of this will have you saying what the actual fuck lmao)

Non-Fiction

Viktor Frankl's "A Man's Search For Meaning" (Just saying, this is written by a Holocaust survivor who is also a psychologist. There are graphic depictions of his sufferings. Major trigger warnings and all that - but, I still highly recommend as this is a really life changing book. His message and eloquence touched me in an indescribable way.)

Walter Burkett's "Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical" (Really, I recommend this as required reading to all Hellenics and those interested in ancient Greek religion.)

Dorsey Armstrong's audiobook, "Medieval Myths & Mysteries"

Lacy Collison-Morley's "Greek and Roman Ghost Stories"

Anne Baring and Jules Cashford's "Myth of the Goddess: An Evolution of an Image"

Estelle B. Freedman's "The Essential Feminist Reader"

Alexandra Kollontai's "The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman"

Bernadotte Perrin's Translation of Plutarch's "The Parallel Lives" (Juicy Roman drama).

Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations"

Robert Graves' Translation of Suetonius' "The 12 Caesars" (Juicy Roman tea, with a hint of bias though)

[kadoore]

I just added a few books and updated the pub dates of others, so now's a good a time as any to link to the 2022 Queer SFF Books list!

Adult! Science fiction! And fantasy! Books! That have queer main characters!! They exist!

A great place to find gifts for your friends! Your family! Your enemies!!

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Which version of this do you prefer?

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My 2022 top books

So...every year I try to do a round-up of my favourite books. I'm horrified to realise I missed 2021 but...baby we're back!

Here are my top 5 books of 2022!

An honourable mention goes to The Magnus Archives, which I loved and listened to between August and October 2022.

Bring on 2023! I have some things I'm excited for already lined up to devour.

[jakeperalta]

nobody asked but here's my top reads of 2023 📚🫶

fiction top 5:

in memoriam by alice winn

if we were villains by ml rio

happy place by emily henry

east of eden by john steinbeck

after I do by taylor jenkins reid

non-fiction top 5:

humankind: a hopeful history by rutger bregman

sex power money by sara pascoe

I feel bad about my neck (and other thoughts on being a woman) by nora ephron

women & power: a manifesto by mary beard

small fires: an epic in the kitchen by rebecca may johnson

[wannabe-british-fangirl]

~ books read in 2022 ~

#19: The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

[lexa-el-amin]

Top 5 queer books i read in 2022:

1) the prince and the dressmaker - Jen Wang

this comic is pure and heartwarming and healing and every queer kid should have it. it is about friendship and love and being yourself and overcoming fears and hatred. and the illustrations are amazing.

2) the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

this book had me by the throat. 80-something (fictional) Oscar-winning actress Evelyn Hugo tells the story of her life. it's beautiful and it hurts but leaves your heart so full.

3) The factory witches of Lowell - C.S. Malerich

this novella has everything. sapphics, witches and the fight for labor and women's rights.

4) Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao

just... societal issues wrapped up in a rich fantasy setting, with one young woman who is unhinged and reckless, ready to burn everything down for revenge and love. this one really blew me away.

5) A Master of Djinn - P. Djeli Clark

set in an alternate timeline in Egypt, where a suit-wearing muslim lesbian solves supernatural crimes. where the plot lacks the world building and loveable characters make up for it.

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KDRAMAS SEEN IN 2022

Kdramas are my new obsession, so I have to do it

Crash Landing on You

Descendants of the Sun 🔥

Extraordinary Attorney Woo 🔥

Fight My Way

Goblin 🔥

Hospital Playlist 🔥

Little Women

Mad for Each Other 🔥🔥

My Liberation Notes

Our Blues

Romance Is a Bonus Book

Snowdrop

Something in the Rain

Squid Game

Suspicious Partner 🔥

The Sound of Magic

Tomorrow

Touch Your Heart

Vincenzo (rewatch) 🔥🔥🔥

[therefugeofbooks]

My time has come. I finally made one of these! Curious to see the books we have in common ✨️

[friendofcars]

in these last few days of december i am somehow gaining my motivation/ability to concentrate on reading again which is super exciting and hopefully a good sign for next year

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Feo’s fave books of 2022 (4/6)

Maurice by Edward Morgan Forster

I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me.

[readingrobin]

It wouldn't be the new year without a round up list! Here are all the books I got to reading in 2022. How many have you read?