Forgot to post my reading list from last year! I can’t tell you the number of times I can’t tell you the number of times I will start reading a book, and make it all the way through the intro or first chapter to discover that yes, I’ve read it before. So these lists are helpful, not only to discover personal reading trends and figure out what to read next, but to keep me from rereading the same things over and over.
2022 had lots of great books about history, science fiction, music, social justice, essays – and of course, FOOD! I can’t stop reading cooking memoirs and similar books because of how differently people remember specific dishes and how they are tied to memories (also a lot of them contain recipes too). Pretty proud of myself for averaging 4 books per month for the entire year, and I’m already making great headway on my 2023 list.
- Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle (2020) by Daudi Abe
- Dangerous Women (2021) by Hope Adams
- Dead Dead Girls (2021) by Nekesa Afia
- World Travel: An Irreverent Guide (2021) by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever
- Small Game (2022) by Blair Braverman
- People of the Book (2008) by Geraldine Brooks
- The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey (2015) by Rinker Buck
- The Pilgrimage (1987) by Paulo Coelho
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2020) by Suzanne Collins
- A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
- The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South (2017) by John T. Edge
- Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City (2021) by Josephine Ensign
- A Tip for the Hangman (2021) by Allison Epstein
- Serendipity: A History of Accidental Culinary Discoveries (2022) by Oscar Farinetti
- The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) by J.G. Farrell
- A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka (2014) by Lev Golinkin
- The Apollo Murders (2021) by Chris Hadfield
- The Warehouse (2019) by Rob Hart
- Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science (2022) by Jessica Hernandez
- What’s Good? A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients (2021) by Peter Hoffman
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020) by Cathy Park Hong
- The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement (2018) by Matthew Horace
- Wool (2012) by Hugh Howey
- Shift (2013) by Hugh Howey
- Dust (2016) by Hugh Howey
- Machine Learning (2017) by Hugh Howey
- We Do This ’til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (2021) by Mariame Kaba
- Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration (2022) by James Kilgore
- When We Cease to Understand the World (2020) by Benjamin Labatut
- Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (2020) by Amanda Leduc
- Sea of Tranquility (2022) by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Body Scout (2021) by Lincoln Michel
- Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (2021) by Amanda Montell
- Trouble is What I Do (2020) by Walter Mosley
- Ancestor Trouble (2022) by Maud Newton
- Mango and Peppercorns (2021) by Tung Nguyen, Katherine Manning, and Lyn Nguyen
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (2018) by Safiya Umoja Noble
- The Marriage Portrait (2022) by Maggie O’Farrell
- South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (2022) by Imani Perry
- Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark (2021) by Cassandra Peterson
- Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (1994) by Tricia Rose
- The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era (1994) by Quintard Taylor
- Children of Time (2015) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Daughter of Time (1951) by Josephine Tey
- Taste: My Life Through Food (2021) by Stanley Tucci
- The Martian (2011) by Andy Weir
- Disability Visibility: First-person Stories From the Twenty-first Century (2020) edited by Alice Wong
- Interior Chinatown (2020) by Charles Yu
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