Books read in 2022

I felt that I did not read so much this year when I started writing this post. But now that I have looked at the number, I’m surprised that I still read over 30 books this year. And this is not an optimized number 📚.

There were weeks when I did not read, which is new. So I do not feel burned out from reading.

Reading books in parallel worked out, and I read one fiction and one no-fiction book at the time. Nonfiction books usually take a lot longer to read. Especially as I still take a lot of notes when reading them.

I’ve stopped writing regular book reviews this year. And as a consequence also stopped taking notes for fiction books. I started with the reviews mainly to have something to blog about. In the meantime, I found a lot of other topics I can write about and will only create a review when I find a book particularly interesting.

I now read fiction books quite differently compared to a year ago. Working on a better understanding of stories and how authors tell stories is starting to show some dividends!

The best books of 2022

In the fiction category, I have two recommendation

The cover of Hurricane it shows a portrait of the main character

The cover of Hurricane.

The cover of Outland, shows a group passing through a portal in a postapocalyptic world

The cover of Outland.

Hurricane by Janet Edwards Review and Outland by Dennis E. Taylor Review.

With a runner up of A Page in Your Diary: An '80s Time Travel Adventure by Keith A Pearson Review

A Page in Your Diary it just shows the title of the book in big lettering

The cover of A Page in Your Diary.

On the nonfiction side, there is one clear recommendation

Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization by J. Elise Keith

I'm still thinking about this book and found it highly eye-opening to read.

The cover of where the action is. It shows the title and some arrows onto a circled text saying: The meetings that make or break your organisation.

The cover of where the action is.

The cover of the book Story Grid. It shows the title and a big story grid graph below it.

The cover of the book Story Grid.

My runner-up is the The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know by Shawn Coyne, which was hard to read, but it helped me with a better understanding of how stories work.

Reading statistics

My goal was to read three books a month for a total of 36 books. I’ve actually read 34 so far. But I’m still in the progress of reading three more books.

Another goal of mine was to read more nonfiction. At least one per month was the goal. I have yet to reach that goal. I’ve read five nonfiction books this year. I’m still reading two more, but I could not finish them until the end of the year.

I’m happy with the amount I have read, especially with not reading much at the beginning of the month, when I felt burned out from the previous year.

Plans for next year

I kept the same plan as last year. Three books a month, and one of them should be a nonfiction book. Especially as I have many of them in a stack ready to be read next to me.

A photo of a stack of non fiction books to be read. Showing Bird by bird on the top and other below it.

I’m looking forward to “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lamott, which comes highly recommended. But also to the A Skeptic’s Guide to Functional Programming with JavaScript. And there are still some books in the mail.

List of all Books in 2022

Still reading right now

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