Happy New Year! Another year, another slew of books.
Per my yearly tradition, I like to share a recap of all the books I read over the previous year.
In 2022, I read 45 books and as always, I try to span a diversity of authors in background, gender, genre, and identity. I hit a bit less books than the previous year because I read a few mega 600-900+ pagers.
I’ll share my Top 4 Fiction and Top 4 Non-Fiction. Below that, you can see a list of all the books I read each month.
Since I was originally planning to go to Japan in December, I spent the year reading more Japanese authors. Also, I spent more time digging deeper into multiple books from the same author such as Haruki Murakami, Neil Gaiman, and Thich Nhat Hanh. Also also, I read some incredible Latina/Chicana and Indigenous local Denver writers like Kali Fajardo-Anstine and David Heska Wanbli Weiden. I highly suggest their books!
Read on…
TOTAL BOOKS FOR 2022: 45
TOP 4 FICTION:
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
The Overstory — Richard Powers
The Sandman (Vol. 1-8) – Neil Gaiman
Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami
TOP 4 NON-FICTION
The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling — James Hillman
Srimad Bhagavad Gita – Baba Hari Dass
American Veda – Philip Goldberg
Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death in a World That’s Lost its Mind — Jamie Wheal
YEARLY BOOK RECAP:
January
The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling — James Hillman
The Monkey Grammarian – Octavio Paz
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing – Al Ries and Jack Trout
February
Peace is Every Step – Thich Nhat Hanh
Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata
A Swim in the Point in the Rain — George Saunders
Positioning — Al Ries and Jack Trout
Srimad Bhagavad Gita # 2 (Books 7 – 12) – Baba Hari Dass
March
The Sandman (Vol. 1-3) — Neil Gaiman
The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami
American Veda – Philip Goldberg
Selected Poems – E.E. Cummings
April
The Go-Giver — Bob Burg
The Year of the Flood — Margaret Atwood
Srimad Bhagabad Gita #3 (Books 13-18) – Baba Hari Dass
May
Sailing Alone Around The Room — Billy Collins
Confessions of an Advertising Man — David Ogilvy
Silence Speaks — Baba Hari Dass
June
The Sandman (Vol. 3-6) – Neil Gaiman
How To Eat — Thich Nhat Hanh
1Q84 — Haruki Murakami
July
Sabrina and Corina – Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Raja Yoga and Other Lectures — Swami Vivekananda
How To Love — Thich Nhat Hanh
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies — Resmaa Menakem
The Housekeeper and the Professor – Yoko Ogawa
August
Winter Counts – David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
Hit Refresh – Satya Nadella
September
Path Unfolds – Baba Hari Dass
Circe — Madeline Miller
October
How To Focus — Thich Nhat Hanh
The Dawn of Everything – David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Tao of Jeet Kun Do — Bruce Lee
The Overstory — Richard Powers
November
The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter
The Expectation Effect — David Robson
Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami
Recapture the Rapture — Jamie Wheal
December
Permission Marketing — Seth Godin
Story Genius – Lisa Cron
The Heart Aroused – Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America – David Whyte
Cleopatra and Frankenstein — Coco Mellors
Now… on to 2023!
Kicking off the year with a book about the history of the Shaolin Monastery, Neil Gaiman’s “Anansi Boys” and “The Life Divine” by Sri Aurobindo. May your new year be full of books.
Brett