As part of a larger effort to spend less time on my phone and more time doing things I love, I read 61 books in 2022. I wrote about how it was strange that I didn’t read very much despite very much identifying as a reader back in 2020. After a solid warmup year in 2021, I really hit my stride in 2022.
As with a lot of things, I was inspired by Cal Newport. I started off the year with a more modest goal of 2 books a month, then, after an 11 book bender in May, I figured I could handle a 5 books a month goal. Since I had some uneven months already, I decided to go for an average of 5 books a month, rather than exactly 5 every month. This goal felt aggressive, but flexible, and it kept me motivated through the year.
Shifting from reading a little to reading a lot, and spending less time on my phone as a result, was a huge boon to my mental health and happiness this year.
Without further ado, here are the 61 books I read in 2022. My favorites are noted “fav”. This table may break the layout on my blog. If it does, apologies. I’m working on it :)
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| Number | Month | Title | Series | Author | Favorites |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January | Deep Work | Cal Newport | ||
| 2 | January | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3 | January | The Curse of Chalion | World of the Five Gods 1 | Lois McMaster Bujold | |
| 4 | January | Paladin of Souls | World of the Five Gods 2 | Lois McMaster Bujold | |
| 5 | February | Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | Fav | |
| 6 | February | New Suns | ed. Nisi Shawl | ||
| 7 | March | Designing Design | Kenya Hara | ||
| 8 | March | Precision Nutrition | John Berardi | ||
| 9 | April | Delicious | Rob Dunn, Monica Sanchez | ||
| 10 | April | This is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone | Fav | |
| 11 | April | Among Others | Jo Walton | Fav | |
| 12 | April | A Psalm for the Wild-built | Monk & Robot 1 | Becky Chambers | |
| 13 | May | Travel Light | Naomi Mitchison | ||
| 14 | May | The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet | Wayfarers 1 | Becky Chambers | Fav |
| 15 | May | Closed and Common Orbit | Wayfarers 2 | Becky Chambers | Fav |
| 16 | May | Record of a Spaceborn Few | Wayfarers 3 | Becky Chambers | Fav |
| 17 | May | A The Galaxy and the Ground Within | Wayfarers 4 | Becky Chambers | Fav |
| 18 | May | Bird by Bird | Anne Lamott | ||
| 19 | May | Nova | Samuel R. Delany | ||
| 20 | May | The Caves of Steel | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 21 | May | Foundation | Foundation | Isaac Asimov | |
| 22 | May | Tell the Machine Goodnight | Katie Williams | ||
| 23 | May | How Long ‘Til Black Future Month | N.K. Jemisin | Fav | |
| 24 | June | Gold Fame Citrus | Claire Vaye Watkins | ||
| 25 | June | Skyward Inn | Aliya Whiteley | ||
| 26 | June | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 27 | June | On Bullshit | Harry G. Frankfurt | ||
| 28 | June | 5/3/1 | Jim Wendler | ||
| 29 | July | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 30 | July | Three Parts Dead | The Craft Sequence 1 | Max Gladstone | |
| 31 | July | There is No Good Card for This | Emily McDowell, Kelsey Crowe | ||
| 32 | July | The Art of Lifting | Greg Nuckols | ||
| 33 | July | The Science of Lifting | Greg Nuckols | ||
| 34 | July | Several People are Typing | Calvin Kasulke | ||
| 35 | July | The Shards of Earth | The Final Architecture 1 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | |
| 36 | July | Leviathan Wakes | The Expanse 1 | James S.A. Corey | |
| 37 | July | A Prayer for the Crown-shy | Monk & Robot 2 | Becky Chambers | |
| 38 | August | Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro | ||
| 39 | August | At Home | Bill Bryson | ||
| 40 | August | Caliban’s War | The Expanse 2 | James S.A. Corey | |
| 41 | August | Two Serpents Rise | The Craft Sequence 2 | Max Gladstone | |
| 42 | August | Full Fathom Five | The Craft Sequence 3 | Max Gladstone | |
| 43 | August | Last First Snow | The Craft Sequence 4 | Max Gladstone | |
| 44 | August | Four Roads Cross | The Craft Sequence 5 | Max Gladstone | |
| 45 | September | The Ruin of Angels | The Craft Sequence 6 | Max Gladstone | |
| 46 | September | Abaddon’s Gate | The Expanse 3 | James S.A. Corey | |
| 47 | September | Nona the Ninth | The Locked Tomb | Tamsyn Muir | |
| 48 | October | Play Unsafe | Graham Walmsley | ||
| 49 | October | Never Have I Ever | Isabel Yap | ||
| 50 | October | Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master | Michael E. Shea | ||
| 51 | October | Swordspoint | The Riverside Series 1 | Ellen Kushner | |
| 52 | November | The Eyes of the Void | The Final Architecture 2 | ||
| 53 | November | Cibola Burn | The Expanse 4 | James S.A. Corey | |
| 54 | November | Nemisis Games | The Expanse 5 | James S.A. Corey | |
| 55 | November | The Stars are Legion | Wayward Children 1 | Kameron Hurley | |
| 56 | December | Noor | Nnedi Okorafor | ||
| 57 | December | Floralinda and the Forty Flight Tower | Tamsyn Muir | ||
| 58 | December | The Empress of Salt and Fortune | The Singing Hills Cycle 1 | Nghi Vo | |
| 59 | December | Every Heart a Doorway | Seanan McGuire | ||
| 60 | December | To Be Taught If Fortunate | Becky Chambers | Fav | |
| 61 | December | The Long Loaf | Andrew Barton | Fav |