What I read 2022

Setting an ambitious goal of reading 100 books for 2022 was a big task.

From classics to trilogies, to retellings to LGBTQIA+ nothing was off limits. There were some surprising reads, but also some duds.

Never discredit the average book. There is nothing wrong with average. It’s the average books that make you appreciate the good ones.

Books Read or Listened to in 2022

A = Audiobook
B = Physical Book
DNF = Did not finish
E = Ebook
⭐ = Rating

1. Jamie McGuire – Sins of Innocent (E) ⭐⭐
2. Sally Hepworth – The Secrets of Midwives (A) ⭐⭐¼
3. Alice Oseman – Heartstopper (B) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. A Meredith Walters – One Day Soon (E) ⭐⭐⭐¾
5. Justine Larbalestier – How to Ditch Your Fairy (A) ⭐⭐
6. Dean Nicholson – Nala’s World (B) ⭐⭐
7. Leigh Bardugo – Six of Crows (A) ⭐½
8. Victoria Schwab – This Savage Song (B) ⭐⭐
9. Morris Gleitzman – Always (A) ⭐⭐¾
10. Alice Oseman – Heartstopper Vol 2 (E) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
11. Alice Oseman – Heartstopper Vol 3 (E) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
12. Alice Oseman – Heartstopper Vol 4 (E) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
13. Victoria Schwab – Our Dark Duet (E) ⭐⭐
14. Sara Desai – The Dating Plan (B) ⭐⭐⭐¾
15. Aviva – Self/less (A) ⭐⭐
16. Jason Koop – Training Essentials for Ultrarunning (A) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
17. Alice Oseman – Loveless (B) ⭐⭐⭐
18. B.N Toler – Where One Goes (E) ⭐⭐⭐
19. Kelly Elliot – Stay With Me (E) ⭐⭐
20. Nicola Moriarty – You Need to Know (A) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
21. Katie Khan – Hold Back the Stars (B) ⭐⭐¾
22. Emily Spurr – A Million Things (B) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
23. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice (A) ⭐⭐
24. Adam Silvera – They Both Die at the End (B) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
25. Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (A) ⭐⭐
26. Agatha Christie – The Murder of Rodger Ackroyd (B) ⭐⭐
27. Kim Lock – The Other Side of Beautiful (A) ⭐⭐⭐¾
28. Georgie Capron – Just the Two of Us (E) ⭐⭐¾
29. David Walliams – Grandpa’s Great Escape (E) ⭐⭐¾
30. Amanda Gorman – Call Us What We Carry ⭐⭐
31. Sally Hepworth – The Mother’s Promise (A) ⭐⭐¾
32. Lynette Noni – The Prison Healer (A)⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
33. Karina Halle – The Lie (E) ⭐⭐
34. RR Haywood – A Town Called Discovery (A) ⭐⭐
35. Cass Moriarty – The Promise Seed (E) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
36. Scott Stuart – Alone (B) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
37. M.C Cerny – Love Under Construction (E) ⭐⭐¼
38. Dolly Parton & James Patterson – Run Rose Run (A) ⭐⭐¼
39. Heather Hawkins – Adventurous Spirit (B) ⭐⭐
40. Lynette Noni – The Gilded Cage (A) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
41. Rachael Ball – The Inflatable Woman (E) ⭐⭐
42. Kate Alexander – Generation Brave (E)⭐⭐⭐
43. Mackenzie L. Havey – The Perfect Run (A) ⭐⭐
44. Tina Folsom – Lawful Escort (E) ⭐⭐
45. Aunty Joy Murphy – Welcome to Country (B) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
46. Lynette Noni – The Blood Traitor (A) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
47. N.W Harris – The Last Orphans (E) ⭐⭐⭐
48. Tobias Madden – Underdog (E) ⭐⭐⭐
49. Meyne Wyatt – Maku (E) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
50. Madeline Miller – The Song of Achilles (E) ⭐¾
51. Yvette Poshoglian – Dear Greta (E) ⭐⭐⭐
52. Jackie French – A Waltz for Matilda (A) ⭐⭐⭐
53. Mo Gawdat – Solve for Happy (B) ⭐⭐¾
54. Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera – What if it’s us (A) ⭐⭐⭐¾
55. Cath Crowley – Graffiti Moon (A)⭐⭐¾
56. Matilda Woods – Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things (A) ⭐⭐
57. Fiona Lucas – The Last Goodbye (B) ⭐⭐⭐½
58. Micalea Smeltzer – Bring Me Back (E) ⭐⭐½
59. Kelly Barnhill – When Women Were Dragons (A) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
60. Raven Leilani – Luster (A) ⭐⭐¼
61. Taylor Jenkins Reid – Daisy Jones & the Six (B) ⭐⭐⭐¼
62. Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (B) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
63. Trent Dalton – Boy Swallows Universe (A) ⭐⭐½
64. Kiley Reid – Such a Fun Age (B) ⭐⭐½
65. Bethany Walker – Chocolate Milk, X-ray specs and me (B) ⭐⭐½
66. Violet Vaughn – Crushing on Cooper (E) ⭐⭐
67. Celeste Barber – Challenge Accepted (A) ⭐⭐¾
68. Rick Riordan – Daughter of the Deep (B) ⭐⭐⭐
69. William Hussey – Hideous Beauty (A) ⭐⭐⭐
70. Colleen Hoover – Verity (B) ⭐⭐⭐¾
71. Cecelia Ahern – Where Rainbows End (B) ⭐¾
72. Tomi Adeyemi – Children of Blood and Bone (A) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
73. Emily Henry – Book Lovers (B) ⭐⭐⭐
74. Tomi Adeyemi – Children of Virtue and Vengeance (A) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
75. Vanessa Diffendaugh – We Never Asked for Wings (A) ⭐⭐
76. Sally Morgan – Thank You Rain (E) ⭐⭐⭐
77. John Marsden – So Much to Tell You (B) ⭐⭐¾
78. Katie Cross – Bonbon to Yoga Pants (E) ⭐⭐½
79. Vince Copley – The Wonder of Little Things (A) ⭐⭐
80. Rachel Givney – Secrets my Father Kept (B) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
81. Clare James – More Than This (E) ⭐⭐
82. Sharon Dogar – Annexed (A) ⭐⭐⭐
83. Beth O’Leary – The No-Show (B) ⭐⭐⭐¼
84. Matt Stanton – The Odds (E) ⭐⭐⭐
85. Matt Stanton – The Odds, Run Odds Run (E) ⭐⭐⭐
86. Adam Silvera – The First to Die at the End (A) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
87. Colleen Hoover – It Ends With Us (E)⭐⭐½
88. Marissa Meyer – Gilded (A) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
89. Marissa Meyer – Cursed (A) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
90. Jodie McAlister – Here For the Right Reasons (B) ⭐⭐⭐½
91. Kylie Ladd – The Way Back (A) ⭐⭐⭐
92. Lily Myers – This Impossible Light (E) ⭐⭐⭐¾
93. John Green – Paper Towns (A) ⭐⭐¾
94. Colleen Hoover – It Starts With Us (E) ⭐⭐
95. Jillian Dodd – Vegas Love (E) ⭐⭐
96. Katrina Nannestad – We are Wolves (A) ⭐⭐⭐
97. Colleen Oakley – Before I Go (B) ⭐⭐¾
98. David Ramos – The Offical Dream Plan (E) ⭐½
99. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (A) ⭐⭐
100. Casey McQuiston – I Kissed Shara Wheeler (A)
101. Tobias Madden – Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell (B) ⭐⭐⭐
102. Jason Fitzgerald – 52 Workouts, 52 Weeks ⭐⭐⭐
103. Louise Pentland – Time After Time ⭐⭐⭐½

Books that I did not finish

Reading should bring you joy. If a book isn’t holding your interest or is just not your style, it’s ok to give up and not finish it.

These are the books that I tried, but for whatever reason, they didn’t do it for me.

1. Laekan Zea Kemp – The Girl in between (DNF)
2. Lily Foster – Let me be the one (DNF)
3. Lila Rose – Holding out (DNF)
4. Junot Diaz – This is how you lose her (DNF)
5. Kate Grenville – A room made of leaves (DNF)
6. Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, woman, other (DNF)
7. Olivie Blake – The Atlas Six (DNF)
8. Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera – Here’s to us (DNF)

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There you have it, the books that I read or simply didn’t finish for 2022.

In 2023, I’d like to see all my Kobo library books read, strangely there are 23 books left on that list.

I might even cross off a few books from my Kindle list, which I have not read one single book from this year… oops… I shouldn’t have looked, there are over 50 books on that list (not including the numerous cookbooks that I have there).

May my reading in 2023 be just as fun as 2022 has been.