Okay, my numbers were still down relative to my top years… but I managed more than a book every two weeks, and there were some long ones in there! I apologize for nothing! Ahem… please enjoy my reading list for 2022:
- Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes, Jessica Pan
- Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart
- A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
- The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles
- Superman Smashes the Klan, Gene Luen Yang (art by Guruhiru)
- Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, Amanda Montell
- Yearbook, Seth Rogen
- Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities, Alexandra Robbins
- All’s Well, Mona Awad
- The Comic Hero’s Journey, Steve Kaplan (reread)
- The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Alison Bechdel
- New Teeth, Simon Rich
- Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos, Michael Imperioli & Steve Schirripa with Philip Lerman
- The Innocents, Michael Crummey
- Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, Bob Odenkirk
- Butter Honey Pig Bread, Francesca Ekwuyasi
- Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots
- The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, Les Payne and Tamara Payne
- Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel
- The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: Finding the Formula for the Cost of Love, Haley McGee
- The Butterfly Revolution, William Butler (technically a re-read, but it had probably been about thirty years)
- The Topeka School, Ben Lerner
- How To Write One Song, Jeff Tweedy
- Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers, James Andrew Miller (975 pages!)
- Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
- I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus, Samantha Albert
- A Star Called Henry, Roddy Doyle
- Seven Games: A Human History, Oliver Roeder
- Audience-ology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love, Kevin Goetz with Darlene Hayman
- People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present, Dara Horn
- Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory, Sarah Polley
- Hola Papi: How to Come Out In a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons, John Paul Brammer