2022 Books I've Read



Here are my ratings for the 58 books I read in the past 12 months.  In case you've forgotten, the scale goes like this: 1 - pass, 2 - some good some bad, 3 - recommended, 4 - can't stop raving about it, 5 - fundamentally changed my worldview. 

Please weigh in with recommendations. Especially seeking to diversify into more fiction and more non-white and female authors. Also trying to sprinkle in longer reads and classics. Tell me your must-reads!

  1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon) 4
  2. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Gottlieb) 4
  3. Your Brain is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions (Montague) 3
  4. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 (Kendi, Blain) 4
  5. A Dutiful Boy: A memoir of secrets, lies and family love (Zaidi) 4
  6. Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-up Years (Guisewite) 4
  7. A Burst of Light and Other Essays (Lorde) 2
  8. Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology (Marable) 4
  9. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Sinek) 3
  10. Little Fires Everywhere (Ng) 4
  11. The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics (Harford) 3
  12. The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention (Baron-Cohen) 3
  13. Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir (Ford) 3 
  14. Concrete Rose (Thomas) 4
  15. The Hate U Give (Thomas) 4
  16. Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools (Kozol) 4
  17. On the Come Up (Thomas) 4
  18. 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (Gillon) 3
  19. Inside Comedy: The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades (Steinberg) 3
  20. The Secret to Superhuman Strength (Bechdel) 3
  21. Ain’t I a Woman (hooks) 4
  22. The Color Purple (Walker) 3
  23. The Fire Next Time (Baldwin) 3
  24. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character (Feynman) 3
  25. Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (hooks) 3
  26. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society (Soh) 3
  27. The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do: A No F*cks Given Guide (Knight) 2
  28. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal (Bittman) 4
  29. Shaping Hearts and Minds: A Case For Classical Christian Education (Whatley) 2
  30. 30
  31. A Philadelphia Education: Tales, Trials, and Tribulations of a Serial Careerist (Goldsmith) 4
  32. The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone (Pollard) 2
  33. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (Munroe) 4
  34. Hearts Of Fire: Eight Women In The Underground Church And Their Stories Of Costly Faith (VOTM) 3
  35. The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change (Boss) 4 
  36. How You Say It: Why We Judge Others by the Way They Talk—and the Costs of This Hidden Bias (Kinzler) 4
  37. The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky) 4
  38. Do Good At Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing (Boccalandro) 3
  39. You Are Enough: Revealing the Soul to Discover Your Power, Potential, and Possibility (Desai) 3
  40. 1Q84 (Murakami) 4
  41. False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet (Lomborg) 4
  42. Don Quixote (Cervantes) 4
  43. Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure From Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age (Duncan) 2
  44. Ida B. the Queen  The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells (Duster) 3
  45. Just As I Am (Tyson) 3
  46. Live Your Best Life: 219 Science-based Reasons to Rethink Your Daily Routine (Farrimond) 3
  47. Love Is an Ex-Country (Jarrar) 3
  48. Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination (Jones) 3
  49. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Harari) 4
  50.  The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Pinker) 3
  51. Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis (Calhoun) 3
  52. Atlas Shrugged (Rand) 3
  53. The Fountainhead (Rand) 3
  54. The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak: Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families (Bream) 3
  55. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America (Adams) 3
  56. The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation (Pogrebin, Kelly) 4
  57. Baby and Child Care (Spock) 3
  58. The Origin of Species (Darwin) 3

Email Post

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts