The 100 Books of 2022

Every year I try to read 100 books. This year I crossed the finish line with a couple days to spare. 

January 2022

City of Thieves - David Benioff

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks

Private Lives - Noël Coward (play)

Blithe Spirit - Noël Coward (play)

The Incredible Winston Browne - Sean Dietrich

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hating Game - Sally Thorne

Bullshit Jobs - David Graeber 

Elemental Haiku - Mary Soon Lee (poetry)

February 2022

Crenshaw - Katherine Applegate

Upgrade - Blake Crouch

Spinster - Kate Bolick

Admit This to No One - Leslie Pietrzyk

Mouth to Mouth - Antoine Wilson

Arcadia - Tom Stoppard (play)

Renascence and Other Poems - Edna St. Vincent Millay (poetry)

Courage - Bernard Waber (children)

The House on East 88th Street Book - Bernard Waber (children)

March 2022

The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry - Fredrik Backman

Folding Beijing - Hao Jingfang (novelette)

Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - Dennis E. Taylor

I Was Told There'd Be Cake - Sloane Crosley

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu - Tom Lin

The Eye of Argon - Jim Theis

April 2022

The Chain - Adrian McKinty

To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip José Farmer

Hellboy: Odd Jobs - ed. Christopher Golden

Other Minds - Peter Godfrey-Smith

The Longevity Diet - Valter Longo

Strange Wine - Harlan Ellison

Cold in July - Joe R. Lansdale

Hellboy: Oddest Jobs - ed. Christopher Golden

One for the Money - Janet Evanovich

Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome

The Bad Guys #1 - Aaron Blabey (graphic novel)

May 2022

Time and Again - Jack Finney

Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic - Symphony Space

A Room with a View - E. M. Forster

The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams

Railsea - China Miéville

About a Boy - Nick Hornby

Train Dreams - Denis Johnson 

The Railway Children - Edith Nesbit

The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran

The Bad Guys #4: Attack of the Zittens - Aaron Blabey (graphic novel)

The Bad Guys #3: The Furball Strikes Back - Aaron Blabey (graphic novel)

The Bad Guys #2: Mission Unpluckable - Aaron Blabey (graphic novel)

June 2022

Fantastic Mr. Fox and Other Animal Stories - Roald Dahl

The Thicket - Joe R. Lansdale

The Twits, the Minpins and the Magic Finger - Roald Dahl

Another Fine Myth - Robert Lynn Asprin

James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl

The Woman They Could Not Silence - Kate Moore

Gory Details - Erika Engelhaupt

The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking - Ursula Vernon / T. Kingfisher

Deadman's Road - Joe R. Lansdale

Infused: Adventures in Tea - Henrietta Lovell

July 2022

The Great Pretender - Susannah Cahalan

One of Us Is Lying - Karen M. McManus

First Person Singular - Haruki Murakami

Matilda - Roald Dahl

Do Hard Things - Steve Magness

The Willows - Algernon Blackwood

The Ammonite Violin and Others - Caitlin R. Kiernan

This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom - Sangu Mandanna

Home Before Dark - Riley Sager

August 2022

The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin

Killshot - Elmore Leonard

Dark Archives - Megan Rosenbloom

Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts - Kate Lister

September 2022

I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuiston 

Mr. Majestyk - Elmore Leonard

Out of Sight - Elmore Leonard

October 2022

Rook - Anthony McGowan

The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman

The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune

Wordslut - Amanda Montel

Carrie Soto Is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid 

November 2022

Now Is Not the Time to Panic - Kevin Wilson

December 2022

Funny Farm - Laurie Zaleski

Nightcrawlers -  Leila Mottley

And Shall Machines Surrender - Benjanun Sriduangkaew

The Witches - Roald Dahl

The Thief of Always - Clive Barker

This Will Be His Legacy - Aubrey Hirsch

Ulysses - James Joyce

The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin

The Field -  John B. Keane (play)

The Whale - Samuel D. Hunter (play)

Big Hard Sex Criminals (Vol. 1) - Fraction & Zdarsky (graphic novel)

The Arrival - Shaun Tan (graphic novel)