Books Read 2022

1. “Collected Poems: 1987 - 2003” — Paul Birtill  (January)
2. “Out of the Woods” — Luke Turner  (January)
3. “Assembly” — Natasha Brown  (January)
4. “A Blood Condition” — Kayo Chingoyi  (January)
5. “Monastery” — Eduardo Halfon  (January)
6. “Petite Fleur” — Iosi Havilio  (January)
7. “77 Love Sonnets” — Garrison Keillor  (January)
8. “What Belongs To You” — Garth Greenwell  (January)
9. “Inside The Wave” — Helen Dunmore  (January)
10. “Box Hill” — Adam Mars-Jones  (January)
11. “Nonsense” — Christopher Reid  (January)
12. “Small Town Girl” — Donna McLean  (February)
13. “Cherry” — Nico Walker  (February)
14. “art sex music” — Cosey Fanni Tutti  (February)
15. “The Motel Life” — Willy Vlautin  (March)
16. “The Painted Word” — Tom Wolfe  (March)
17. “Weird Fucks” — Lynne Tillman  (March)
18. “The Fighter” — Craig Davidson  (March)
19. “Repair” — C. K. Williams  (March)
20. “Bourdain in Stories” — Laurie Woolever  (March)
21. “The Free” — Willy Vlautin  (March)
22. “The Question” — Austin Clarke  (March)
23. “Keeping The House” — Tice Cin  (March)
24. “Cockfighter” — Charles Willeford  (April)
25. “56 Days” — Catherine Howard Ryan  (April)
26. “The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin” — Kirsty Bell  (May)
27. “Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” — Robert Pirsig  (May)
28. “The Art of Rivalry” — Sebastian Smee  (May)
29. “Baise-Moi” — Virginie Despentes  (May)
30. “The Demon” — Hubert Selby Jr.  (May)
31. “Yoga” — Emmanuel Carrère  (June)
32. “I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen” — Sylvie Simmons  (June)
33. “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” — Richard Flanagan  (July)
34. “The Young Accomplice” — Benjamin Wood  (July)
35. “Three Zen Masters: Ikkyū; Hakuin; Ryōkan” — John Stevens  (July)
36. “The Mermaid of Black Conch” — Monique Roffey  (July)
37. “Actress” — Anne Enright  (August)
38. “Consolations of the Forest” — Sylvain Tesson  (August)
39. “Olive, Again” — Elizabeth Strout  (August)
40. “My Phantoms” — Gwendoline Riley  (August)
41. “A Mind Spread Out on the Ground” — Alicia Elliott  (August)
42. “Do The Work” — Steven Pressfield  (August)
43. “Trilobites & Other Stories” — Breece D’J Pancake  (September)
44. “Town Smokes” — Pinckney Benedict  (September)
45. “The Abide Guide” — Oliver Benjamin & Dwayne Eutsey  (September)
46. “The Pear Field” — Nana Ekvtimishvili  (September)
47. “A Book of Silence” — Sara Maitland  (September)
48. “Tao: A New Way of Thinking” — Chung-yuan Chang  (September)
49. “How To Fail” — Elizabeth Day  (September)
50. “Open City” — Teju Cole  (September)
51. “Lapvona” — Ottessa Moshfegh  (September)
52. “Death and The Seaside” — Alison Moore  (October)
53. “IT” — Stephen King  (October)
54. “Morning: How To Make Time” — Allan Jenkins  (October)  (Again)
55. “The Rest of the Way” — J. D. McClatchy  (November)
56. “Berlin” — Bea Setton  (November)
57. “Dubliners” — James Joyce  (November)  (Again)
58. “New Collected Poems” — Tomas Tranströmer  (November)
59. “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept” — Elizabeth Smart  (November)
60. “The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck” — Mark Mason  (November)
61. “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” — Muriel Spark  (November)
62. “Teacher: The One Who Made A Difference” — Mark Edmundson  (November)
63. “Cleaning Up at the Hamtramck Burger Chef: Selected Poems 1999-2006” — Don Winter  (November)
64. “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” — Cal Newport  (November)
65. “Why Write?” — Mark Edmundson  (November)
66. “Why Read?” — Mark Edmundson  (November)
67. “Symposium” — Plato  (December)
68. “Getting Lost” — Annie Ernaux  (December)
69. “Billy Rags” — Ted Lewis  (December)
70. “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” — Amos Tutuola  (December)
71. “Oh William!” — Elizabeth Strout  (December)
72. “Hawk Mountain” — Conner Habib  (December)
73. “Cutting Timber: An Irritation” — Thomas Bernhard  (December)

Books in bold were particularly good.