The Books I Read in 2022
A complete list of what I read over the course of 2022
Lot by Bryan Washington
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton
Sankofa by Chibundo Onuzo
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
The One Hundred Years of Lenin and Margot by Marianna Cronin
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Wahala by Nikki May
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad You Did] by Philippa Perry
After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made by Ben Rhodes
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
A Therapist’s Garden by Erik Keller
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochiti Gonzalez
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Lanugage of Human Experience by Brené Brown
Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Stay and Fight by Madeline Ffitch
Mango and Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream by Tung Nguyen, Katherine Manning, and Lyn Nguyen with Elisa Ung
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies by Renee Linklater
The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice by Staci Haines
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Popisho by Leone Ross
The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
Vagabonds! By Eloghosa Osunde
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health - Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model by L.D. Green and Kelechi Ubozoh
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
We Live in Water by Jess Walter
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern
The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers
Angel & Hannah by Ishle Park
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
Intimations by Zadie Smith
We Do This ‘til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imani Messina
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney
All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope - and Hard Pills to Swallow - About Fighting for Black Lives by Andre Henry
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola
Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind by Fariha Róisín
White Magic by Elissa Washuta
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare
Body Work by Melissa Febos
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper
The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Autumn by Ali Smith
Ravenfall by Kalyn Josephson
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
Supper Club by Lara Williams
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
The Symmetry of Fish by Su Cho
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories by Omolola Ijeaoma Ogunyemi
Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson
Delphi by Clare Pollard
The Trauma of Everyday Life by Mark Epstein
White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology by Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silvia
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan