Read in 2022

Check out what I’m reading in 2022! It hurts me as much as it hurts you to not have this organized like previous years… but I’m not about to rearrange everything by hand every time I read a new book by an author whose name is in the first half of the alphabet.


Fiction

Agatha Christie A Death in the Clouds
Alex MichaelidesThe Maidens
Alexis Henderson – The Year of the Witching
James HiltonLost Horizon
Sarah GaileyRiver of Teeth
Sarah J. Maas A Court of Thorns and Roses; A Court of Mist and Fury; A Court of Wings and Ruin; A Court of Frost and Starlight; A Court of Silver Flames; The Assassin’s Blade; Throne of Glass; Crown of Midnight; Heir of Fire; Queen of Shadows; Empire of Storms; Tower of Dawn; Kingdom of Ash; House of Earth and Blood; House of Sky and Breath
Seth Grahame-SmithAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; The Last American Vampire
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
Willa Cather My Ántonia


Nonfiction

Andy HallDenali’s Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America’s Wildest Peak
Bill SchuttCannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
Buddy LevyRiver of Darkness: Francisco Orellana’s Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Claudio SauntUnworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Dan BarberThe Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
Dan JonesThe Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
David GrannThe White Darkness
Donnie EicharDead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
Douglas Perry The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired “Chicago
Henry Zebrowski, Ben Kissel, & Marcus ParksThe Last Book on the Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History’s Most Notorious Serial Killers
Hugh BrewsterGilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic‘s First-Class Passengers and Their World
Ian Mortimer The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England; The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England
James L. SwansonChasing Lincoln’s Killer
Jill LeporeThese Truths: A History of the United States
John Ashdown-HillThe Third Plantagenet: George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III’s Brother
John Bakeless – Turncoats, Traitors And Heroes: Espionage in the American Revolution
John ProtasioThe Day the World Was Shocked: The Lusitania Disaster and Its Influence on the Course of World War I
Joshua GunnModern Occult Rhetoric
Lucy BurninghamMy Beer Year: Adventures with Hop Farmers, Craft Brewers, Chefs, Beer Sommeliers, and Fanatical Drinkers as a Beer Master in Training
Luis Alberto UrreaThe Devil’s Highway: A True Story
Marc HartzmanChasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural
Mary RoachFuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Michael Farquhar Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year
Nathaniel Philbrick Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy; Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution
Paul TherouxDark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town; The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean
Tom ClavinTombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride From Hell


Drama, Poetry, & More

Emily Dickinson The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
ed. Kate Bernheimer My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (fairy tale anthology)
trans. Jessie Weston – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (myth/legend)


I recommend most of these works – no point in wasting time reading a bad book. But some I tried and tried and could not power through… any questions about if I think something’s worth the time, just ask!