BOOK REVIEW ROUND UP 2022 // END OF YEAR UPDATE

My year of reading in 2022!

General stats

Fiction: 79
Nonfiction: 24

Audiobooks: 58
Physical books: 45

Borrowed books: 63
→ Library savings $1,283.43
Personal collection: 40

2022 TBR: 30
2022 Release: 27
Book of the Month: 17
Buzzword Readathon challenge: 38
Debut Work: 28

5 stars: 21
4 stars: 35
3 stars: 22
2 stars: 2
Not rated: 23

General Goals

☒ 70 books → 103 books
☒ 25,000 pages → 30,176 pages

☒ 5 books about race/antiracism
What White People Can Do Next by Emma Dabiri
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell, Aurelia Durand (Illustrations)
The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper
Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter by Shani King, Bobby C. Martin (Illustrations)
☒ 4 classics
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Passing by Nella Larson
1984 by George Orwell
Of Mice and Men by John Steinback
☒ 3 translated works
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, Henning Koch (Translator)
The Girl Who Died by by Ragnar Jónasson, Victoria Cribb (Translator)
Lemon by Kwon Yeo-Sun, Janet Hong (Translator)
☒ 2 comedy/humor
Eating Salad Drunk: Haikus for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats by Gabe Henry
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World by Matt Kracht
☒ 1 poetry collection
Counting Descent by Clint Smith
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
And We Rise by Erica Martin

Author Goals

☒ S.A. Cosby
☒ Joan Didion
☒ Alice Feeney
☐ Roxane Gay
☐ Elizabeth Gilbert
☒ Kristin Hannah
☐ Grady Hendrix
☒ Lisa Jewell
☐ Lars Kepler
☐ Audre Lorde
☐ Jennifer McMahon
☒ Liane Moriarty
☐ Toni Morrison
☐ Jo Nesbø
☐ Jodi Picoult
☐ Peter Swanson
☒ Colson Whitehead
☒ Ashley Winstead

Book Review Round Up // 2022 Q3 Updated linked here
Book Review Round Up // 2022 Q2 Update linked here
Book Review Round Up // 2022 Q1 Update linked here

Until next time, Meryn


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