Reading List 2022

January 06, 2023

Happy New Year! 2022 Reading List

Recovering from my ACL surgery
in May, reading McCarthy's brutal
"Child of God"

Here comes the annual reading list! For 2022 I read the most books in a year that I ever have (68). Some of this personal record breaking reading was owing to my 2 month convalescence after tearing my ACL in late April where books and comics saved my sanity (or thankfully transported my agonized consciousness.)

I discovered a couple of new authors that I couldn't get enough of (I was made aware of the playwright August Wilson and the author Kent Haruf this year and I devoured their oeuvre insatiably. I got back into Dennis Lehane in a big way as well.)

I realized during the school year I impulse-buy and read a lot of books to distract myself from the mundanity of the school work. (I currently am swearing off buying books for the new year, a resolution I clearly failed to adhere to in 2022.)

I don’t usually record the poetry books I read (nor do i read many poetry books, but my talented yogi and poet girlfriend Sabrina Perrino ( @sabrinalotusflower And @sabrinalotusyoga on IG) published a wonderful poetry book about the yoga, personal growth and spiritual path called PINK LOTUS: Poems For The Yoga Path that is very beautiful, and she also made a full length accompanying film that I’ve linked here. It’s an immersive, meditative must-watch! Follow the links to purchase her book as well, which is designed so lovely and as instructive as it is aesthetically beautiful. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xNPGY-PfkYk

I put asterisks next to my favorite books of the year, absent adjustments for genre preference or age-appropriateness as considerations, I'd recommend these to anyone. I've put an "a" next to the books I listened to as an audiobook (Audible is great, but overdrive/libby are great options through your local library system to access books for free and I recommend it.)

Another plan for 2023 is to write and share more about the things I read and enjoy and my thoughts about them. Maria Popova's indispensable "The Marginalian" blog is a big inspiration for this. I'll likely do different posts about this year's list (perhaps talking about specific books or authors I've been really thrilled by etc.)

My favorite places to buy books online have been Thrift Books dot com or straight from publishers. I used to use ABE books dot com but they are owned by anazon. Thrift books is an affordable used book aggregate from libraries, thrift stores, used book stores and so on and it feels less gross than an amazon purchase. In linking to all of the books below, I've tried to avoid amazon links.

Reading List 2022

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