Books of 2022

Last updated: Sat Dec 31 2022

  1. The Library Book, Susan Orlean
  2. Analects of Confucius (trans. Edward Slingerland)
  3. All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told, Douglas Wolk
  4. Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
  5. ❤️ Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes (trans. Edith Grossman)
  6. Faust: A Tragedy, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. Martin Greenberg)
  7. The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More With Less, Sahil Lavingia
  8. 🔁 The Tempest, Shakespeare
  9. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman
  10. 🔁 The Master & Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov (trans. Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)
  11. Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy, Bryan W. Van Norden
  12. The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power, Max Chafkin
  13. The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win, Maria Konnikova
  14. Confessions, Augustine (trans. Sarah Ruden)
  15. Foundation, Isaac Asimov
  16. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
  17. Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife, Ariel Sabar
  18. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, David Grann
  19. The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe
  20. The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, Sebastian Mallaby
  21. VC: An American History, Tom Nicholas
  22. Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World, Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross
  23. 🔁 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  24. 🔁 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams
  25. Emma, Jane Austen
  26. Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella H. Meadows (ed. Diana Wright)
  27. Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse
  28. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, Steve Silberman
  29. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond
  30. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, Matthew Restall
  31. William Blake vs. the World, John Higgs
  32. Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace, Christopher Blattman
  33. The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease, Charles Kenny
  34. ❤️ A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life, George Saunders
  35. tmux 2: Productive Mouse-Free Development, Brian P. Hogan
  36. How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures, Robin Dunbar
  37. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
  38. ❤️ The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
  39. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe, Matthew Gabriele & David M. Perry
  40. The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction, Pat Shipman
  41. Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life, Eric Klinenberg
  42. ❤️ The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman
  43. The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science, Seb Falk
  44. Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds, Gerard Way
  45. The Umbrella Academy Vol. 1: Apocalpyse Suite, Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba
  46. Here, Richard McGuire
  47. ❤️ The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
  48. Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age, Sanjay Gupta & Kristin Loberg
  49. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande
  50. ❤️ The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll’s House, Neil Gaiman
  51. ❤️ The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country, Neil Gaiman
  52. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
  53. ❤️ The Plague, Albert Camus (trans. Laura Marris)
  54. ❤️ Orlando: A Biography, Virginia Woolf
  55. LaserWriter II, Tamara Shopsin
  56. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
  57. ❤️ His Dark Materials: Book 2 - The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman
  58. 🔁 “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  59. “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  60. 🔁 ❤️ Faust: A Tragedy, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. Walter Arndt, ed. Cyrus Hamlin)
  61. Randical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Scott
  62. ❤️ The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
  63. ❤️ The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You, Neil Gaiman
  64. 🔁 The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  65. 🔁 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
  66. Hell House, Richard Matheson
  67. ❤️ The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt
  68. Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Junji Ito
  69. 🔁 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller
  70. The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections, Neil Gaiman
  71. Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu, Junji Ito
  72. 🔁 Layli and Majnun, Nezami Ganjavi (trans. Dick Davis)
  73. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, Jeff Speck

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