My 2022 reading list contains sixty-six titles. I read fewer books than the past two years, but that’s a good thing. As the pandemic lessened its grip, I was able to venture out more, which resulted in less reading time. I’m grateful to have reading as a lifelong hobby. Books have enriched my life in many ways, and I look forward to the ones that have yet to be discovered and devoured. I hope 2023 provides you with the time to lose yourself in a good book or two or twenty. Here’s my list:
| Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family | Robert Kolker |
| Milk Fed | Melissa Broder |
| Apples Never Fall | Liane Moriarity |
| The First Husband | Laura Dave |
| Know My Name | Chanel Miller |
| The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Taylor Jenkins Reid |
| Five Tuesdays in Winter | Lily King |
| Eight Hundred Grapes | Laura Dave |
| Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent and Navigating The New Masculinity | Peggy Orenstein |
| Writers and Lovers | Lily King |
| Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape | Peggy Orenstein |
| Super Host | Kate Russo |
| Crying In H Mart: A Memoir | Michelle Zauner |
| Salt In My Soul: An Unfinished Life | Mallory Smith |
| Lucky | Marissa Stapley |
| The Confession Club | Elizabeth Berg |
| Sarah’s Key | Tatiana de Rosnay |
| Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Bryan Stevenson |
| Oh William! | Elizabeth Strout |
| Chasing Drew Hastings | Drew Hastings |
| The Most Fun We Ever Had | Claire Lombardo |
| Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving, Loss, and Healing | Amy Newmark |
| Death in Slow Motion: My Mother’s Descent into Alzheimer’s | Eleanor Cooney |
| Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and The Doctor Who Heals Them | Randy Christensen, MD with Rene Denfeld |
| All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep | Andre Henry |
| Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole | Susan Cain |
| The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing | Bronnie Ware |
| Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World | Sharon Salzberg |
| Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma | Galit Atlas, PhD. |
| From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life | Arthur C. Brooks |
| In The Dream House | Carmen Maria Mcahado |
| Less | Andrew Sean Greer |
| Love In The Time Of Contagion | Laura Kipnis |
| Unmasked-My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases | Paul Holes w/Robin Gaby Fisher |
| Happy-Go-Lucky | David Sedaris |
| The Wishing Year: A House, A Man, My Soul | Noelle Oxenhandler |
| The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life | Julia Cameron |
| Summer Love | Nancy Thayer |
| Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir | Natasha Trethewey |
| I Am Malala | Malala Yousafzai |
| The Next Thing You Know | Jessica Strawser |
| The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People | Rick Bragg |
| How To Tell A Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling From The Moth | 5 Authors |
| I Was Told It Would Get Easier | Abbi Waxman |
| Adult Assebly Required | Abbi Waxman |
| Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South | Rick Bragg |
| Love, Lies, and Lemon Cake | Sue Watson |
| The Girls Guide To Love And Supper Clubs | Dana Bate |
| The Measure | Nikki Erlick |
| The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life | Simran Jeet Singh |
| A Course In Miracles Made Easy: Mastering the Journey From Fear to Love | Alan Cohen |
| Remarkably Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt |
| On Animals | Susan Orlean |
| Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs | Ari Wallach |
| Here & Hereafter: How Wisdom from the Departed Can Transform Your Life Now | Tyler Henry |
| The Gratitude Diaries: How A Year Looking On The Bright Side Can Transform Your Life | Janice Kaplan |
| We Never Die: Secrets of the Afterlife | Matt Fraser |
| Seven Days In June | Tia Williams |
| Signal Fires | Dani Shapiro |
| For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story | Steve Leder |
| The Editor | Steven Rowley |
| Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Garmus |
| Lily and the Octopus | Steven Rowley |
| The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit | Shirley MacLaine |
| Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age | Sherry Turkle |
| The Stories We Tell | Joanna Gaines |
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