reading list: 2022

January 2022: (6)

• An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (reread)
• Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (reread)
• Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes From a Medical Life by Suzanne Koven
• Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change by Thor Hanson
• Borealis: An Essay by Aisha Sabatini Sloan

February 2022: (3)

• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
• Joan is Okay by Weike Wang
• Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

March 2022: (6)

• Cyber Mage by Saad Z. Hossain
• Obit: Poems by Victoria Chang
• War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow
• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain

April 2022: (10)

• Mala’s Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II by Mala Kacenberg
• How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America by Priya Fielding-Singh
• Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity by Jill Louise Busby
• Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink by Véronique Hyland
• Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
• The Old Woman and the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo
• The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation by Cathy O’Neil
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
• Kundo Wakes Up by Saad Z. Hossain
• The Wok: Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
• Kundo Wakes Up by Saad Z. Hossain

May 2022: (8)

• The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, trans. Adriana Hunter
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• At the Edge of the Woods by Masatsugu Ono, trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter
• Stuffed Animals: A Modern Guide to Taxidermy by Divya Anantharaman and Katie Innamorato
• The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold by Sam Knight
• Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
• The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn, trans. Martin Aitken
• The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty by Sy Montgomery

June 2022: (4)

• The Unwritten Book: An Investigation by Samantha Hunt
• Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness by Elizabeth D. Samet
• Rouge Street: Three Novellas by Shuang Xuetao, trans. Jeremy Tiang
• We Had to Remove This Post: A Novel by Hanna Bervoets

July 2022: (6)

• The Hiking Book from Hell by Are Kalvø
• Either/Or by Elif Batuman
• Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future by Ben Tarnoff
• A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman by Lindy Elkins-Tanton
• All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran
• Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley by Carolyn Chen

August 2022: (8)

• Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels by Paul Pringle
• Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett
• What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
• Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic by Anthony Almojera
• The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
• Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi, trans. David Boyd and Lucy North
• Tokyo for Food Lovers by Jonas Cramby

September 2022: (6)

• Death by Landscape: Essays by Elvia Wilk
• Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood by Satya Doyle Byock
• Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library by Amanda Oliver
• Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
• Pretty Baby: A Memoir by Chris Belcher

October 2022: (5)

• What If? 2 by Randall Munroe
• The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo (reread)
• The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
• Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
• The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

November 2022: (5)

• NSFW: A Novel by Isabel Kaplan
• Girl Online: A User Manual by Joanna Walsh
• Border Vista: Poems by Anni Liu
• The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
• Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin

December 2022: (7)

• Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo
• The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang
• Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York by Jeremiah Moss
• All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes
• Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA by Robert Ji-Song Ku
• Savor: A Chef’s Hunger for More by Fatima Ali
• Simply Chinese: Recipes from a Chinese Home Kitchen by Suzie Lee

Year-end total: 74

Top books of 2022: How High We Go in the Dark (March), Detransition, Baby (May), The Latecomer (August), Venomous Lumpsucker (August), Manhunt (October)