Reading List 2022

[yuuago]

The resolution is to read 50 books this year. I've divided them up into categories/sub-goals.



Additional notation:
[*] Would rec
[GN] Graphic novel/comic/manga
[E] E-book
[A] Audiobook
[R] Re-rec
[L] Library book
[N] Originally written in a Nordic language

Nonfiction

01. Exoplanets - Donald Goldsmith. Finished Jan 09. [A]
02. The Ballet Lover's Companion - Zoe Anderson. Finished Jan 21. [L]
03. Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet - Jennifer Homans. Finished Feb 12. [L]
04. The Invention of Surgery - David Schneider. Finished Mar 03. [L][A]
05. Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing - Olga Mecking. Finished Mar 04. [L]
06. Where You Come From - Saša Stanišić. Finished Mar 29. [L][*]
07. The Bayou Strangler: Louisiana’s Most Gruesome Serial Killer - Fred Rosen. Finished Mar 13.[L][A]
08. The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir - Karen Cheung. Finished April 22. [L]
09. Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattred Hopes - Lun Zhang. Finished April 23. [L][GN]
10. Fine: A Comic About Gender - Rhea Ewing. Finished May 25. [L]GN][*]
11. Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacey Murders - Terry Sullivan. Finished May 28. [L][A]
12. Murder by Candlelight: The Gruesome Slayings Behind Our Romance with the Macabre - Michael Beran. Finished June 05. [L][A]
13. Headcase: LGBTQ Writers and Artists on Mental Health and Wellness - Stephanie Shroeder and Teresa Theophano. Finished June 16. [L]
14. Amateur: A True Story About What Makes A Man - Thomas Page McBee. Finished June 20. [L]
15. Transgender Activists and Celebrities - New York Times article anthology. Finished July 04. [L]
16. House of Gucci - Sara Gay Forden. Finished July 16. [L][*]
17. In the Heart of the Sea : The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick. Finished Aug 09.
18. Armenia in Pictures - Bella Waters. Finished Aug 12. [L]
19. Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story - Ron Franscell. Finished Sep 22. [L][A]
20. Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz - Omer Bartov. Finished Sep 06. [L][*]
21. The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures - Paul Fischer. Finished Oct 14. [L]
22. Snapshot Killer - Duncan McNab. Finished Oct 15. [L][A]
23. Unmaking a Murder - Graham Archer. Finished Oct 21. [L][A]
24. The Darkest Night - Ron Franscell. [L][A]
25. Torso - Brian Michael Bendis & Marc Andreyko. Finished Nov 27. [L][GN]
26. The Search for the Green River Killer - Carlton Smith & Thomas Guillen. Finished Dec 04. [L][A]
27. The I-5 Killer - Ann Rule. Finished Dec 21. [L][A]

Poetry

01. All the Flowers Kneeling - Paul Tran. Finished May 17. [L]
02. Caribou: Poems - Charles Wright. Finished June 04. [L][*]
03. Braille Rainbow - Mike Barnes. Finished July 03. [L][*]
04. Delinquent Palaces - Danielle Chapman. Finished July 21. [L]
05. The Waking Comes Late - Steven Heighton. Finished Sep 06. [L][*]
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Fiction

01. The Far Arena - Richard Ben Sapir. Finished Jan 04. [*][A][L]
02. Tokyo Redux - David Peace. Finished Jan 12. [L]
03. The Witch and the Beast vol 01 - Kousuke Satake. Finished Jan 16. [GN]
04. The Sea House - Elisabeth Gifford. Finished Jan 18. [L][A][*]
05. The Outsider - Stephen King. Finished Jan 28. [L]
06. Beneath the Mountain - Luca D'andrea. Finished Jan 29. [L][A]
07. The House Party - Mary Grand. Finished Feb 06. [L][A]
08. Anything For Him - L. K. Chapman. Finished Feb 11. [L][A]
09. A Swift and Savage Tide - Chloe Neill. Finished Feb 17. [L][*]
10. Citrus vol 01 - Saburouta. Finished Feb 22. [L][GN]
11. Wicked Lies - Lisa Jackson. Finished Feb 24.
12. Citrus vol 02 - Saburouta. Finished Feb 25. [L][GN]
13. Citrus vol 03 - Saburouta. Finished Mar 02. [L][GN]
14. Citrus vol 04 - Saburouta. Finished Mar 03. [L][GN]
15. Woom - Duncan Ralston. Finished Mar 06. [L]
16. Citrus vol 05 - Saburouta. Finished Mar 10. [L][GN]
17. Closer to Home - Heleyne Hammersley. Finished Mar 10. [L][A]
18. Citrus vol 06 - Saburouta. Finished Mar 11. [L][GN]
19. The Messy Man - Chris Sorensen. Finished Mar 16. [L][A]
20. The Oslo Conspiracy - Asle Skredderberget. Norway. Finished Mar 19. [L][*][N]
21. Welcome to Wherever You Are - John Maars. Finished Mar 27. [L][A][*]
22. Citrus vol 07 - Saburouta. Finished Mar 30. [L][GN]
23. Ocean State - Stewart O'Nan. Finished Mar 31. [L][A]
24. Citrus vol 08 - Saburouta. Finished April 01. [L][GN]
25. That Darkness - Lisa Black. Finished April 08. [L][A]
26. The Bright and Breaking Sea - Chloe Neill. Finished April 08. [L][*]
27. Killer's Island - Anna Jansson. Sweden. Finished April 15. [L]
28. Unpunished - Lisa Black. Finished April 20. [L][A]
29. No Longer Safe - A.J. Waines. Finished April 29. [L][A]
30. Welcome to the Neighbourhood - Lisa Roe. Finished May 05. [L][A]
31. Echo - Thomas Olde Heuvelt. Finished May 15. [L][*]
32. The Hidden - Melanie Golding. Finished May 15. [L][A][*]
33. Deserter - Junji Ito. Finished May 17. [L][GN]
34. I Must Betray You - Ruta Sepetys. Finished May 20. [L][*]
35. The Flying Troutmans - Mriam Toews. Finished May 24.
36. Jujutsu Kaisen vol 01 - Akutami Gege. Finished June 07. [L]
37. Perish - Lisa Black. Finished June 12. [L][A]
38. Jujutsu Kaisen vol 02 - Akutami Gege. Finished June 14. [L]
39. Good Neighbours - Mary Grand. Finished June 21. [L][A]
40. Jujutsu Kaisen vol 03 - Akutami Gege. Finished June 22. [L]
41. Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas. Finished June 30. [L][*]
42. 24 Hours - Claire Seeber. Finished July 01. [L][A]
43. Sensor - Junji Ito. Finished July 02. [L]
44. Jujutsu Kaisen vol 04 - Gege Akutami. Finished July 03. [L]
45. Wedding Bells at Villa Limoncello - Daisy James. Finished July 07. [L][A]
46. The Uniform - Jodie Lawrence. Finished July 13. [L][A]
47. Suffer the Children - Lisa Black. Finished July 23. [L][A]
48. Plain Bad Heroines - Emily M. Danforth. Finished July 23. [L]
49. Augusta Hawke - G. M. Mallet. Finished July 28. [L][A]
50. Seeing Darkness - Heather Graham. Finished Aug 01.
51. A Desperate Place - Jennifer Greer. Finished Aug 11. [L][A]
52. Rainfish - Andrew Paterson. Finished Aug 19. [L][*]
53. Twenty Years Later - Charlie Donelea. Finished Aug 26. [L][A]
54. Dark Hours - Michael Connelly. Finished Aug 26.
55. Last Girl Gone - J G Hetherton. Finished Sept 01. [L][A]
56. Love of Kill - Fe. Finished Sep 03. [L][*]
57. A Woman Made of Snow - Elisabeth Gifford. [L][A][*]
58. The Truth About Melody Browne - Lisa Jewell. [L][A][*]
59. Tales From the Cafe - Toshikazu Kawaguchi. Finished September 25. [L][*]
60. The Echo Man - Sam Holland. Finished Oct 01. [L][A]
61. Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan. Finished Oct 01. [L]
62. The Deadline - Ron Franscell. Finished Oct 09. [L][A]
63. Midnight in Everwood - M. A. Kuznair. Finished Oct 16. [L]
64. Babylon Berlin - Volker Kutscher. Finished Oct 21. [L]
65. Lost Lad London vol 01 - Shima Shinya. Finished Oct 22. [L][GN]
66. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind. Finished Oct 27. [L][*]
67. China Rich Girlfriend - Kevin Kwan. Finished Nov 02. [L]
68. Keeping Two - Jordan Crane. Finished Nov 06. [L][GN]
69. Girls Weekend - Jody Gehrman. Finished Nov 10. [L][A]
70. Winter Water - Susanne Jansson. [L]
71. White Out - Ragnar Jonasson. [L]
72. Chivalry - Neil Gaiman, illust Colleen Doran. Finished Nov 19. [L][*]
73. Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir. Finished Nov 28. [L][*]
74. Compass: Volume 1: The Cauldron of Eternal Life - Mckenzie Walker & Greenwood. Finished Nov 27. [L][GN]
75. Rich People Problems - Kevin Kwan. Finished Dec 04. [L]
76. Diary of a War Crime - Simon Mcleave. Finished Dec 12. [L][A]
77. Leech - Hiron Ennes. Finished Dec 18. [L][*]
78. The Suicide House - Charlie Donlea. Finished Dec 27. [L][A]
79. Correspondence from the End of the Universe vol 01 - Menota. Finished Dec 29. [L][GN]
80. Pass me by vol 1: Gone Fishin' - Simmers& Owen. Finished Dec 31. [L][GN]