Back at it and even less able to provide commentary than I was this time last year, but hot damn I love books.
(Previously: 2021 in Reading)
| Legend | Rough Guide to Ratings |
|---|---|
 – Plays – Poetry – Books (Fiction) – Books (Nonfiction) – Graphic Novels | ❤︎ = Yes ❤︎❤︎ = Oh Yes ❤︎❤︎❤︎ = Oh Hell Yes ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎ = Priestdaddy |
- Five Worlds: The Sand Warrior – Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, Boya Sun
- Pirate Freedom – Gene Wolfe
- Thirsty Mermaids – Kat Leyh ❤︎❤︎❤︎
Going Postal – Terry Pratchett ❤︎❤︎- A Dark and Starless Forest – Sarah Hollowell
- Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
- The Do-it-yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad — Adam Gnade
- The Daughters of Ys – M.T. Anderson, Jo Rioux
- How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne – Sarah Bakewell
- Burnout – Emily & Amelia Nagoski
- Small Gods – Terry Pratchett ❤︎❤︎
- At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life – Fenton Johnson ❤︎❤︎
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built – Becky Chambers ❤︎❤︎
- Luster – Raven Leilani ❤︎❤︎❤︎
- A Primer for Forgetting – Lewis Hyde ❤︎❤︎❤︎
- The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron ❤︎❤︎❤︎
- Tiny House Living – Ryan Mitchell
- Amulet Book 1 – Kazu Kibuishi
- Amulet Book 2 – Kazu Kibuishi
- Amulet Book 3 – Kazu Kibuishi
- Amulet Book 4 – Kazu Kibuishi
- Amulet Book 5 – Kazu Kibuishi
- Amulet Book 6 – Kazu Kibuishi
- Amulet Book 7 – Kazu Kibuishi
- Amulet Book 8 – Kazu Kibuishi
- Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
- River of Teeth – Sarah Gailey ❤︎
- The Four Agreements – don Miguel Ruiz
- The Echo Wife – Sarah Gailey ❤︎❤︎
- When Strangers Meet – Kio Stark
- Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward ❤︎
- The Sabbath – Abraham Joshua Heschel ❤︎
- On Imagination – Mary Ruefle
- The Timeless Way of Building – Christopher Alexander ❤︎
- Mighty Jack – Ben Hatke
- Dancing at the Pity Party – Tyler Feder
- Zita the Spacegirl – Ben Hatke
- A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles ❤︎
- The Decagon House Murders – Yukito Ayatsuji
- Salt Magic – Rebecca Mock & Hope Larson
- Lies Sleeping – Ben Aaronovitch
- Mighty Jack & Zita the Spacegirl – Ben Hatke
- Making Comics – Lynda Barry ❤︎❤︎❤︎
- A Master of Djinn – P. Djèlí Clark
- Coyote Doggirl – Lisa Hanawalt
- Mighty Jack and the Goblin King – Ben Hatke ❤︎
- Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? – Roz Chast ❤︎❤︎
- Fair Play – Tove Jansson ❤︎
- Plus One – Christopher Noxon
- Berlin – Jason Lutes ❤︎❤︎
- Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe – Yumi Sakugawa ❤︎
- Matrix – Lauren Groff ❤︎❤︎❤︎
- Belonging – Nora Krug ❤︎❤︎
- My Depression – Elizabeth Swados
- This Woman’s Work – Julie Delporte ❤︎❤︎❤︎
- Shadowshaper – Daniel José Older
- Genderqueer – Maia Kobabe
- Full Dark House – Christopher Fowler
- Polysecure – Jessica Fern
- Spear – Nicola Griffith
- Dying for Attention: a Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home Care – Susan MacLeod
- 300 Arguments – Sarah Manguso ❤︎
- More Than Two – Franklin Veaux & Eve Rickert
- Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls – Alissa Nutting
- Notes from Walnut Tree Farm – Roger Deakin ❤︎❤︎❤︎
- Unmastered, A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell – Katherine Angel ❤︎❤︎
- Maxwell’s Demon – Stephen Hall
- Magic for Liars – Sarah Gailey
- A Prayer for the Crown Shy – Becky Chambers
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard ❤︎❤︎❤︎ (last read in 2017)
- Everybody: A Book About Freedom – Olivia Laing ❤︎❤︎
- Detransition, Baby – Torrey Peters ❤︎❤︎❤︎
- The Joy of Small Things – Hannah Jane Parkinson
- Fisher of Bones – Sarah Gailey
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John le Carré
- 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write – Sarah Ruhl
- Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again – Katherine Angel ❤︎
- Toad – Katherine Dunn ❤︎
- No One is Talking About This – Patricia Lockwood ❤︎❤︎
- The Impossible Us – Sarah Lotz ❤︎❤︎❤︎
- Sheets – Brenna Thummler
- Priestdaddy – Patricia Lockwood ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎
- Upright Women Wanted – Sarah Gailey ❤︎
- When We Were Magic – Sarah Gailey
- Emergent Strategy – adrienne maree brown ❤︎❤︎
- The Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey
- Fantasian – Larissa Pham ❤︎
- A Handbook of Disappointed Fate – Anne Boyer ❤︎
- Love – Leo Buscaglia
- Delight – J.B. Priestley ❤︎❤︎
