I can hardly believe I’ve been keeping a list of what I read for 15 years now. This year I only read 51 books, which is my lowest count since 2016. I felt like I had a hard time getting excited about most of the books I read this year (with some notable exceptions). Maybe I read less because I wasn’t picking the right books. Or maybe I was just tired. It doesn’t actually matter how much I read, but there are so many good books out there that I feel a sense of urgency about it. Here’s to more reading in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are this year’s stats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you want to see what I read in previous years, you can click the books of the year tag<\/a> to see all my past annual book posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you would like to be book friends all year, you can join me on StoryGraph<\/a>! My username is linzomatic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now: the list of books I read in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I can hardly believe I’ve been keeping a list of what I read for 15 years now. This year I only read 51 books, which is my lowest count since 2016. I felt like I had a hard time getting excited about most of the books I read this year (with some notable exceptions). 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Aresenault Rivera<\/td><\/tr> 1\/22<\/td> Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home<\/td> Charlie Warzel, Anne Helen Petersen<\/td><\/tr> 1\/25<\/td> Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity<\/td> James O’Donnell<\/td><\/tr> 1\/25<\/td> Payback’s a Witch<\/td> Lana Harper<\/td><\/tr> 2\/6<\/td> She Who Became the Sun<\/td> Shelley Parker-Chan<\/td><\/tr> 2\/13<\/td> Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men<\/td> Katrine Mar\u00e7al<\/td><\/tr> 2\/16<\/td> You Sexy Thing<\/td> Cat Rambo<\/td><\/tr> 3\/17<\/td> Deep Space Nine: Hollow Men<\/td> Una McCormack<\/td><\/tr> 3\/30<\/td> A Passage of Stars<\/td> Kate Elliott<\/td><\/tr> 4\/8<\/td> A Marvelous Light<\/td> Freyja Marske<\/td><\/tr> 4\/18<\/td> Revolution’s Shore<\/td> Kate Elliott<\/td><\/tr> 4\/22<\/td> The Price of Ransom<\/td> Kate Elliott<\/td><\/tr> 5\/6<\/td> Azura Ghost<\/td> Essa Hansen<\/td><\/tr> 5\/10<\/td> Servant Mage<\/td> Kate Elliott<\/td><\/tr> 5\/17<\/td> Skyward Inn<\/td> Aliya Whiteley<\/td><\/tr> 5\/29<\/td> Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality<\/td> Lily Geismer<\/td><\/tr> 6\/5<\/td> Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange<\/td> Ann Searcy<\/td><\/tr> 6\/6<\/td> Fevered Star<\/td> Rebecca Roanhorse<\/td><\/tr> 6\/10<\/td> When Women Were Dragons<\/td> Kelly Barnhill<\/td><\/tr> 6\/14<\/td> I Hate Men<\/td> Pauline Harmange<\/td><\/tr> 6\/21<\/td> No One Is Talking About This<\/td> Patricia Lockwood<\/td><\/tr> 6\/30<\/td> Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right<\/td> Anne Nelson<\/td><\/tr> 7\/10<\/td> The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic<\/td> Emily Croy Barker<\/td><\/tr> 7\/16<\/td> How to Talk to a Goddess and Other Lessons in Real Magic<\/td> Emily Croy Barker<\/td><\/tr> 7\/18<\/td> The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future<\/td> Julie Hobsbawn<\/td><\/tr> 7\/22<\/td> The Future Is Blue<\/td> Catherynne Valente<\/td><\/tr> 7\/27<\/td> The Cartographers<\/td> Peng Shepherd<\/td><\/tr> 8\/3<\/td> A Prayer for the Crown Shy<\/td> Becky Chambers<\/td><\/tr> 8\/6<\/td> The Past Is Red<\/td> Catherynne Valente<\/td><\/tr> 8\/10<\/td> Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America<\/td> Lauren Rankin<\/td><\/tr> 8\/13<\/td> The Daughter of Doctor Moreau<\/td> Silvia Moreno-Garcia<\/td><\/tr> 8\/15<\/td> A Mirror Mended<\/td> Alix E. Harrow<\/td><\/tr> 8\/23<\/td> The Travelers<\/td> Regina Porter<\/td><\/tr> 9\/2<\/td> The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep<\/td> H. G. Parry<\/td><\/tr> 9\/8<\/td> Gideon the Ninth<\/td> Tamsyn Muir<\/td><\/tr> 9\/17<\/td> Harrow the Ninth<\/td> Tamsyn Muir<\/td><\/tr> 9\/25<\/td> Nona the Ninth<\/td> Tamsyn Muir<\/td><\/tr> 10\/7<\/td> Woman at 1,000 Degrees<\/td> Hallgr\u00edmur Helgason<\/td><\/tr> 10\/7<\/td> The Museum of Whales You Will Never See<\/td> A. 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