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 Michaelides – The Maidens
Alexis Henderson – The Year of the Witching
James Hilton – Lost Horizon
Sarah Gailey – River 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-Smith – Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; The Last American Vampire
Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose
Willa Cather – My Ántonia
Nonfiction
Andy Hall – Denali’s Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America’s Wildest Peak
Bill Schutt – Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
Buddy Levy – River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana’s Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Claudio Saunt – Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Dan Barber – The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
Dan Jones – The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
David Grann – The White Darkness
Donnie Eichar – Dead 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 Parks – The Last Book on the Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History’s Most Notorious Serial Killers
Hugh Brewster – Gilded 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. Swanson – Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
Jill Lepore – These Truths: A History of the United States
John Ashdown-Hill – The Third Plantagenet: George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III’s Brother
John Bakeless – Turncoats, Traitors And Heroes: Espionage in the American Revolution
John Protasio – The Day the World Was Shocked: The Lusitania Disaster and Its Influence on the Course of World War I
Joshua Gunn – Modern Occult Rhetoric
Lucy Burningham – My Beer Year: Adventures with Hop Farmers, Craft Brewers, Chefs, Beer Sommeliers, and Fanatical Drinkers as a Beer Master in Training
Luis Alberto Urrea – The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
Marc Hartzman – Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural
Mary Roach – Fuzz: 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 Theroux – Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town; The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean
Tom Clavin – Tombstone: 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!