BOOKS READ IN 2022

• My favorite read of the year was: The Swimmers and Mad Honey
• My favorite sci-fi (sortof) read of the year was: Light from Uncommon Stars
• My favorite Fantasy read of the year was: Lonely Castle in the Mirror
• My favorite uplit read of the year was: Remarkably Bright Creatures
• My favorite nonfiction read of the year was: You Could Make this Place Beautiful and Four Thousand Weeks
• My favorite Historical Fiction read of the year was: Song of Achilles
• My favorite Mystery read of the year was: The Twist of a Knife
• My favorite graphic novel read of the year was: Everything is Okay

Here are all 279 books I’ve read this year. You can see my goodreads reviews here.

1. Mixed Signals
2. Forever Hold Your Peace
3. How Far the Light Reaches
4. It Won’t Always be Like This
5. Exiles
6. The Collected Regrets of Clover
7. We All Want Impossible Things
8. No Two Persons
9. Light from Uncommon Stars
10. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
11. We Are the Light
12. The Villa
13. All the Dangerous Things
14. Romantic Comedy
15. The Lightkeeper’s Daughters
16. The Family Game
17. The Minimum Method
18. The Plus One (A Brush with Love, #3)
19. Earthlings
20. Savage Wilder (Sinners and Saints, #4)
21. Earth’s the Right Place for Love
22. The Immeasurable Depth of You
23. Gone for Good (Detective Annalisa Vega, #1)
24. Painting Perspective, Depth & Distance in Watercolour
25. Watch Over Me
26. Marigold and Rose: A Fiction
27. Ready to Paint with Terry Harrison: Watercolour techniques, tips and projects for the complete beginner
28. The Watercolour Companion: Techniques & tips to improve your painting
29. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery, #4)
30. Skye Falling
31. You’d Be Home Now
32. Things We Do in the Dark
33. The Shamshine Blind
34. Autoboyography
35. Lavender House
36. The Go-Giver Marriage: A Little Story about the Five Secrets to Lasting Love
37. Maureen (Harold Fry #3)
38. Hello Beautiful
39. A Hard Day for a Hangover (Sunshine Vicram, #3)
40. Mad Honey
41. The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
42. The Drift
43. Ana Takes Manhattan
44. Our Missing Hearts
45. A Map for the Missing
46. Roadside Picnic
47. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
48. Imposter
49. Spells for Forgetting
50. The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything
51. A Very Typical Family
52. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
53. The Key to My Heart
54. The Matchmaker’s Gift
55. Touch
56. The Sun Walks Down
57. The Atonement (The Arrangement, #3)
58. The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2)
59. The Amendment (The Arrangement, #2)
60. The Spanish Love Deception
61. All That’s Left Unsaid
62. The Half Moon
63. Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom
64. Lighter than My Shadow
65. The Answers Are Within You: 108 Keys to Unlock Your Mind, Body Soul
66. Killers of a Certain Age
67. The Marriage Portrait
68. The World of Urban Sketching: Celebrating the Global Revolution of Drawing on Location – New Inspirations, Approaches, and Techniques for Seeing the World One Drawing at a Time
69. Honor
70. Wild is the Witch
71. The Gravity of Us (Elements, #4)
72. People Person
73. Bookworm
74. Wrong Place Wrong Time
75. The Placeholder
76. Carrie Soto Is Back
77. You Are Not Alone: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Mental Health
78. Love on the Brain
79. Daisy Darker
80. Look Closer
81. The Eighth Life
82. Tiny
83. A Tidy Ending
84. The Soulmate
85. Horse
86. Thank You for Listening
87. Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout, #1)
88. The Last Housewife
89. The Lioness
90. Hamnet
91. The Ferryman
92. The Violin Conspiracy
93. Jar of Hearts
94. Little Secrets
95. All the Acorns on the Forest Floor
96. The Couple at Number 9
97. Fighting Words
98. A Month in the Country
99. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
100. People Who Knew Me
101. Professor Everywhere
102. These Silent Woods
103. The Museum of Rain
104. When She Was Good (Cyrus Haven, #2)
105. The Every
106. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
107. Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)
108. Lonely Castle in the Mirror
109. Seven Days in June
110. And Yet: Poems
111. Someone Else’s Bucket List
112. Maame
113. Small World
114. Tiny Buddha’s Inner Strength Journal: Creative Prompts and Challenges to Help You Get Through Anything
115. The Guest Lecture
116. A Flicker in the Dark
117. Happily Ever After & Everything In Between
118. When We Were Friends
119. Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert’s Story
120. Book Love
121. Fresh Water for Flowers
122. The Art of the Travel Journal: Chronicle Your Life with Drawing, Painting, Lettering, and Mixed Media – Document Your Adventures, Wherever They Take You
123. The Appeal
124. Everything Is OK
125. A Shoe Story
126. Vacationland
127. The Dead Romantics
128. Metropolis
129. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
130. Crying in H Mart
131. The Long Answer
132. I Let You Go
133. Kaleidoscope
134. Naughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
135. After You’d Gone
136. The Picture of Dorian Gray Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
137. Tell Me Three Things
138. Body Grammar
139. Gilt
140. Georgie, All Along
141. All My Puny Sorrows
142. Delilah Green Doesn’t Care (Bright Falls, #1)
143. Twice in a Lifetime
144. Everything for You (Bergman Brothers, #5)
145. The Measure
146. The Song of Achilles
147. The Sea of Tranquility
148. Never Coming Home
149. 56 Days
150. The Argonauts
151. Wilderness Watercolor Landscapes: 30 Eye-Catching Scenes Anyone Can Master
152. Small World
153. Stunning Watercolor Seascapes: Master the Art of Painting Oceans, Rivers, Lakes and More
154. Find Your Peace: A Workbook for a More Mindful Life
155. The Singularities
156. The Netanyahus
157. Insomnia
158. Crossroads
159. The Great Book of Journaling: How Journal Writing Can Support a Life of Wellness, Creativity, Meaning and Purpose
160. In the Weeds (Lovelight, #2)
161. Can’t Look Away
162. Aurora
163. Counterfeit
164. The Latecomer
165. Loving the Dead and Gone
166. Disorientation
167. Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting
168. A Dangerous Business
169. Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
170. Delphine Jones Takes a Chance
171. Nevada
172. The Wilderwomen
173. Find Your Calm: A Workbook to Manage Anxiety
174. A Quiet Life
175. Nuclear Family
176. The Urban Sketching Handbook Spotlight on Nature: Tips and Techniques for Drawing and Painting Nature on Location
177. The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
178. Chef’s Kiss (Chef’s Kiss, #1)
179. The Book Woman’s Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
180. Nora Goes Off Script
181. Billie Starr’s Book of Sorries
182. Now Is Not the Time to Panic
183. Signal Fires
184. Four Treasures of the Sky
185. The Winners (Beartown, #3)
186. The Overnight Guest
187. I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
188. Ugly Love
189. Meant to Be
190. The Old Place
191. The Homewreckers
192. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
193. Notes on an Execution
194. The Humans
195. Something Wilder
196. Adult Assembly Required
197. Lucy by the Sea (Amgash, #4)
198. I’m the Girl
199. Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
200. Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
201. Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
202. See You Yesterday
203. Acts of Violet
204. Other Birds
205. One of Us Is Dead
206. Mindful Sketching: How to Develop a Drawing Practice and Embrace the Art of Imperfection
207. Remarkably Bright Creatures
208. Three Kisses, One Midnight
209. The Bodyguard
210. Cult Classic
211. Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
212. Funny You Should Ask
213. Part of Your World
214. Trust
215. Book Lovers
216. The No-Show
217. Home or Away
218. Answers in the Pages
219. True Biz
220. Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay
221. The Paris Apartment
222. In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
223. When You Get the Chance
224. Cover Story
225. Below Zero (The STEMinist Novellas, #3)
226. Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
227. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
228. Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman
229. I Kissed Shara Wheeler
230. Recitatif
231. The Story of You Workbook: An Enneagram Guide to Becoming Your True Self
232. One Italian Summer
233. For You & No One Else (Say Everything, #3)
234. Calm Your Anxiety Journal: Guided, Gentle Prompts for Soothing Stress and Quieting Your Anxiety
235. Things to Look Forward To: 52 Large and Small Joys for Today and Every Day
236. The Book of Cold Cases
237. The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.
238. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
239. Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World
240. Under Lock & Skeleton Key (Secret Staircase Mystery, #1)
241. The Unsinkable Greta James
242. Ain’t Burned All the Bright
243. A Far Wilder Magic
244. The Cartographers
245. Ghost Forest
246. This Golden State
247. The Love of my Life
248. Stuck with You (The STEMinist Novellas, #2)
249. The Last Time I Lied
250. One Night on the Island
251. Rubyfruit Jungle
252. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
253. Feel Your Way Through
254. The Swimmers
255. Under One Roof (The STEMinist Novellas, #1)
256. Upgrade
257. When We Let Go
258. The Kingdoms
259. The Nineties
260. The Arc
261. Golden Boys (Golden Boys, #1)
262. Monstrous Beauty
263. Plus One
264. The Candy House
265. Black Cake
266. Greenwich Park
267. How High We Go in the Dark
268. The Lies I Tell
269. The Last Flight
270. Weather Girl
271. Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead (Finlay Donovan, #2)
272. Olga Dies Dreaming
273. The High House
274. Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)
275. Ways the World Could End
276. Lovelight Farms (Lovelight, #1)
277. This Time Tomorrow
278. These Precious Days: Essays
279. The Sign for Home