#book list 2022

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Books Read in 2022

1. The Night Swim by Megan Goldin

2. The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom

3. Everything After by Jill Santopolo

4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (reread)

5. Someone We Know by Shari Lapena

6. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

7. Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human by John Mark Comer

8. The Stranger in the Mirror - Liv Constantine

9. Lovely War - Julie Berry

10. To Kill a Kingdom - Alexandra Christo

11. It’s Not What You Think - Jefferson Bethke

12. Love That Lasts - Jefferson and Alyssa Bethke

13. The Fellowship of the Ring (audio book) - J.R.R. Tolkien

14. Not a Happy Family - Shari Lapena

15. The Midnight Library - Matt Haig

16. The Flatshare - Beth O’Leary

17. Get Out of Your Head - Jennie Allen

18. The Two Towers (audio book) - J.R.R. Tolkien

19. Verity - Colleen Hoover

20. Let Your Life Speak - Parker J. Palmer

21. The Kind Worth Killing - Peter Swanson

22. The Wives - Tarryn Fisher

23. Rules for Perfect Murders - Peter Swanson

24. Meet Me in Another Life - Catriona Silvey

25. And Then There We’re None - Agatha Christie

26. The Return of the King (audio book) - J.R.R Tolkien

27. The Bridal Party - J.G. Murray

28. The Christie Affair - Nina de Gramont

29. The Rules of Magic - Alice Hoffman

30. The Secret Bridesmaid - Katy Birchall

31. Unshakeable Hope - Max Lucado

32. A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis

33. Just Last Night - Mhairi McFarlane

34. A Flicker in the Dark - Stacy Willingham

35. My Life Next Door - Huntley Fitzpatrick

36. Never Saw Me Coming - Vera Kurlan

37. Maybe in Another Life - Taylor Jenkins Reid

38. No Greater Love - Mother Teresa

39. The Siren - Katherine St. John

40. One True Loves - Taylor Jenkins Reid

41. American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins

42. Lies Beneath - Anne Greenwood Brown

43. Every Summer After - Carley Fortune

44. One by One - Ruth Ware

45. Three Single Wives - Gina Lamanna

46. A Theatre for Dreamers - Polly Samson

47. One of the Girls - Lucy Clarke

48. How to Stop Time - Matt Haig

49. People we Meet on Vacation - Emily Henry

50. In My Dreams I Hold a Knife - Ashley Winstead

51. Still Life - Louise Penny

53. Carrie Soto is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid

54. The Paris Apartment - Kelly Bowen

55. Wrong Place, Wrong Time - Gillian McAllister

56. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

57. The Final Revival of Opal and Nev - Dawnie Walton (read half then quit)

58. The Bullet that Missed - Richard Osman

59. So This is Christmas - Jenny Holiday

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Book List 2022

Ranking my favorite books I've read in 2022. My goal is to read 25 books this year. Lost this post for a while because Tumblr’s search engine is a fail, but then someone randomly liked it, so I found it again. Yay, random person. Unfortunately I fell off on my reading, but I may still hit my goal.... Let’s see. 

Anyway, will update throughout the year. Let's see how this goes.

1. Under the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

2. The Missing Page by Cat Sebastian

3. Prince’s Gambit by C.S. Pacat

4. Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat

5. King’s Rising by C.S. Pacat

6. Last Call at the Nightengale by Katherine Schellman

7. Spellbound by Allie Therin

8. The Sugared Game by KJ Charles

9. Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles

10. Subtle Blood by KJ Charles

11. Wonderstruck by Allie Therin

12. Starcrossed by Allie Therin

13. Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice

14. A Destiny of Dragons by TJ Klune

15. Consumption of Magic by TJ Klune

16. The Lightening Struck Heart by TJ Klune

17. A Wish Upon the Stars by TJ Klune

18. Proper Scoundrels by Allie Therin

19. Olive Juice by TJ Klune

20. Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

21. It Takes Two to Tumble by Cat Sebastian

22. A Mouthful of Forevers by Clementine von Radics

--Anne Rice is ranked lower because Interview has never been my favorite book in the series. What can I say, I’m a basic bitch, in love with a certain disaster bisexual blonde and once he’s out of the book I always find it to be a bit of a struggle. But up next is The Vampire Lestat which is my one true book love. 

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Books Read 2022

Finally got around to logging in from the computer to post this.

From Sea to Sea by Nila Banton Smith

Seafire by Natalie C. Parker

Steel Tide by Natalie C. Parker

Stormbreak by Natalie C. Parker

You May Already Be A Winner by Ann Dee Ellis

Boy 21 by Matthew Quick

The War of the Worlds by HG Wells

Like the Willow Tree by Lois Lowry

The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian

The Eyes of the Amaryllis by Natalie Babbit

Island: Book One: Shipwreck by Gordon Korman

Island: Book Two: Survival by Gordon Korman

The Sea House by Elizabeth Gifford

The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lighthouse Mermaid by Kathleen Karr

The Elephant Girl by Ellen Banda-Aaku, Sophia Krevoy, and James Patterson

The Bee-Loud Glade by Steve Himmer

The Closest I've Come by Fred Aceves

The Nurse's Secret by Amanda Skenandore

The Pirate Queen by Barbara Sjoholm

Seaward Bound by Lea Wait

The Deserted Yacht by Ann Wirt

A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffett

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice

The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Leia Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Basic Stats:

29 novels/novellas, 1 book of short stories, 1 non-fiction

Re-reads: 5 (one I didn't realize it until half-way through)

Book I would most recommend: probably The Bee-Loud Glade, but it would depend on who the recommendation is for. I really just love the premise of that one.

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

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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)

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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.

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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

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~ books read in 2022 ~

#19: The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

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

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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) 🔥🔥🔥

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

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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.