Books I read in 2022

Statistics

  • total: 63 books
  • unique authors (including co-authors): 61 (31 women, 30 men)
  • fiction-nonfiction: 47-16 (about 75%/25%)
  • re-reads: 4
  • graphic novels: 8
  • ebooks: 9
  • genres: 19 distinct genres
  • translated to English: 5
  • series: 23 books were from a series, with 17 different series represented

A bar plot showing the distribution of books across years, with the oldest published in 1953, several published from 1990-2010, and the majority published in the last 10 years. With 20, 2021 has the single greatest number of books.

Non-fiction

  • Hanif Abdurraqib
    • They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (2018)
  • Christopher Blattman
    • Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace (2022)
  • Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
    • Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon (2021)
  • Allan R. Cohen and David L. Bradford
    • Influence Without Authority, 3rd Edition (2017)
  • Cristina De Stefano
    • The Child is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori (2020; English translation by Gregory Conti, 2022)
  • Kevin M. Hoffman
    • Meeting Design: For Managers, Makers, and Everyone (2018)
  • Douglas Hubbard
    • How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business, 3rd Edition (2014)
  • Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., and John J. Ratey, M.D.
    • ADHD 2.0: How Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction--from Childhood Through Adulthood (2021)
  • Michael Jarrett
    • Drifting on a Read: Jazz As a Model for Writing (1999)
  • Will Larson
    • An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (2019)
  • Alec MacGillis
    • Fulfillment: America in the Shadow of Amazon (2021)
  • Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank
    • Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology (2021)
  • Rob Scheer
    • A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time (2018)
  • Teresa Torres
    • Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value (2021)
  • Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
    • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It (2016)
  • Isabel Wilkerson
    • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020)

Fiction

  • Julie Abe
    • Eva Evergreen and the Cursed Witch (2021)
  • Laurent Binet
    • Civilizations: A Novel (2019; English translation by Sam Taylor, 2021)
  • Maurice Broaddus
    • Sweep of Stars (2022)
  • Molly Brooks
    • Sanity and Tallulah #3: Shortcuts (2021)
    • Sanity and Tallulah #2: Field Trip (2019)
  • Lindsay Ellis
    • Axiom's End (2020)
    • Truth of the Divine (2021)
  • Octavia Butler
    • Parable of the Sower (1993)
    • Parable of the Talents (1998)
  • Monica Byrne
    • The Actual Star (2021)
  • Chi Ta-Wei
    • The Membranes (1996; English translation by Ari Larissa Heinrich, 2021)
  • Alice Childress
    • Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life (1956)
  • P. Djèlí Clark
    • Ring Shout (2020)
  • J.S. Dewes
    • The Last Watch (2021)
    • The Exiled Fleet (2022)
  • Saara El-Arifi
    • The Final Strife (2022)
  • Stuart Gibbs
    • Space Case (2014)
  • Jennifer L. Holm
    • Lion of Mars (2021)
  • Ada Hoffman
    • The Outside (2019)
    • The Fallen (2021)
  • Honoré Fanone Jeffers
    • The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (2021)
  • Micaiah Johnson
    • The Space Between Worlds (2021)
  • Yusef Komunyakaa
    • The Emperor of Water Clocks: Poems (2015)
  • Nathaniel Mackey
    • Bass Cathedral (2008)
    • Late Arcade (2017)
    • Double Trio: volume one, Tej Bet (2021)
  • Alan Lightman
    • Einstein's Dreams (1993)
  • Kevin Nguyen
    • New Waves (2020)
  • Megan O'Keefe
    • Catalyst Gate (2021)
  • Ada Palmer
    • Too Like the Lightning (2016)
  • Betsy Peterschmidt
    • Emilia Erroway, Castaway Commander (2021)
  • Tom Pollock
    • This Story is a Lie (2018)
  • Olga Ravn
    • The Employees (2018; English translation by Martin Aitken, 2020)
  • Mario Rocchi and Francesca Carità
    • Gert and the Sacred Stones (2020; English translation by Jamie Richards, 2021)
  • Lucinda Roy
    • The Freedom Race (2021)
  • Monica Sherwood
    • The Ice House (2021)
  • Rachel Swirsky
    • January Fifteenth (2022)
  • Amy Timberlake (pictures by Jon Klassen)
    • Skunk and Badger (2020)
  • Cynthia Voight
    • Little Bird (2020)
  • Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooklyn A. Allen, and Noelle Stevenson
    • Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware The Kitten Holy (2014)
    • Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max (2014)
  • Chuck Wendig
    • Wanderers (2019)
  • Kelly Yang
    • Front Desk (2018)
    • New from Here (2022)
  • Gene Luen Yang
    • Boxers (2013)
    • Saints (2013)
  • Kevin Young
    • Stones: Poems (2022)