2022 Reading list

2022 was not my best reading year, but it wasn't my worst either. As I usually do, I'll list the books in the order that I finished them. I'll also label each of them: 

F =  Fiction

NF = Non-fiction

M = Mystery

YA = Young Adult

RA = Read aloud

An '*' after the listing means that I think it is a valuable enough book to read that I would purchase it if the library didn't have it. 

Some stats:

69 book read (34 non-fiction; 13 mysteries; 25 fiction)

Average of 5.75 books per month

15 books that I started but didn't finish

12 books read aloud

and a total of 22, 074 pages read

1. Moonflower Murders - Anthony Horowitz (M)(591 p.)*

2. Looming Murder - Carol Ann Martin (M)(329 p.)

3. How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell (NF)(204 p.)

4. Arctic Homestead - Norma Cobb and Charles W. Sasser (NF)(300 p.)

5. The Interrupted Tale - Mary Rose Wood (F-YA-RA)(385 p.)*

6. Ink and Bone - Rachel Caine (F-RA)(351 p.)

7. Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking - David Bayles and Ted Orland (NF)(118 p.)

8. The Story of the Romans - H. A. Guerber (NF-YA-RA)(349 p.)

9. The Unmapped Sea - Mary Rose Wood (F-YA-RA)(404 p.)*

10. The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates (F)(403 p.)*

11. You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism - Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar (NF)(235 p.)*

12. The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life - Shawn Achor (NF)(210 p.)

13. Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life - Nir Eyal (NF)(226 p.)

14. The Long-Lost Home - Mary Rose Wood (F-YA-RA)(441 p.)*

15. The Dictionary of Body Language: A Field Guide to Human Behavior - Joe Navarro (NF)(176 p.)

16. Insight: The Surprising Truth About How We See Others See Us, How We See Ourselves, and Why the Answers Matter More Than We Think - Tasha Eurich (NF)(288 p.)*

17. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan (NF)(250 p.)

18. The Dark Archive - Genevieve Cogman (F)(335 p.)

19. The Untold Story - Genevieve Cogman (F)(381 p.)

20. The Little Book of Ikigai: Live a Happy and Long Life the Japanese Way - Ken Mogi (NF)(189 p.)

21. The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles (F)(576 p.)*

22. Grounded: Discerning the Missing Piece in the Puzzle of Children's Behavior - Claire Wilson (NF)(152 p.)

23. Goodnight Sweet Prince - David Dickinson (M)(320 p.)

24. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (F-RA)(652 p.)*

25. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (F)(333 p.)*

26. Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing - David A. Treleaven (NF)(205 p.)

27. Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others - Barbara Brown (NF)(307 p.)*

28. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs - Peter Enns (NF)(228 p.)*

29. The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living - Hillary L. McBride (NF)(258 p.)

30. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde (F-RA)(374 p.)*

31. The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture has made us Unable to Read It - Peter Enns (NF)(244 p.)*

32. The Power of Mindful Learning - Ellen J. Langer (NF)(135 p.)

33. An Altar in the World - Barbara Brown Taylor (NF)(209 p.)

34. A Rising Man - Abir Mukherjee (M)(384 p.)*

35. The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey (M)(375 p.)

36. Everyday Blessing: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting - Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn (NF)(387 p.)

37. The Frangipani Tree Mystery - Ovidia Yu (M)(312 p.)

38. The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: Spirituality for Real Life - James Martin, SJ (NF)(397 p.)*

39. Inner Compass: An Invitation to Ignatian Spirituality - Margaret Silf (NF)(264 p.)

40. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer (NF)(378 p.)

41. The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being - Daniel J. Siegel (NF)(362 p.)*

42. Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde (F-RA)(397)*

43. The House Between Tides - Sarah Maine (F)(385 p.)

44. A Necessary Evil - Abir Mukherjee (M)(370 p.)*

45. Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions - Rachel Held Evans (NF)(227 p.)

46. Smoke and Ashes - Abir Mukherjee (M)(447 p.)*

47. Over-Dressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion - Elizabeth L. Cline (NF)(414 p.)*

48. Death in the East - Abir Mukherjee (M)(414 p.)*

49. The 7-1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton (M)(464 p.)

50. The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde (F-RA)(373 p.)*

51. The Shadows of Men - Abir Mukherjee (M)(334 p.)*

52. Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Mystery - Leonie Swann (M)(341 p.)*

53. Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence - Ruth Haley Barton (NF)(139 p.)

54. Sadhana: A Way to God - Christian Exercises in Eastern Form - Anthony de Mello (NF)(140 p.)

55. The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd (F)(387 p.)*

56. On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity - Ellen J. Langer (NF)(230 p.)

57. You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why it Matters - Kate Murphy (NF)(224 p.)

58. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts - Joshua Hummer (NF)(242 p.)

59. Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde (F-RA)(385 p.)*

60. Running with Sherman: the donkey with the heart of a hero - Christopher McDougall (NF)(334 p.)

61. Pomfret Towers - Angela Thirkell (F)(254 p.)

62. Wild Strawberries - Angela Thirkell (F)(265 p.)

63. Cat's Paw - Roger Scarlett (M)(240 p.) [I really do not recommend this one. The characters were each so unpleasant I was kind of hoping they would all get killed off.]

64. Thornyhold - Mary Stewart (F)(188 p.)

65. Cured: The Life-Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing - Jeffry Rediger (NF)(366 p.)*

66. Mad Honey - Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (M)(452 p.)

67. Thursday Next: First Among Sequals - Jasper Fforde (F-RA)(362 p.)*

68. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel (F)(604 p.)*

69. The War of Art - Steven Pressfield (NF)(162 p.)