Book List 2022

This year’s big success was reading Nikolaus Wachsmann’s 900-page KL, a history of the Nazi concentration camp system. And while I wouldn’t “recommend” it, I certainly learned a lot.

I’ve set in bold the books I particularly enjoyed.

1. The Dancing Plague by Gareth Brookes (Graphic Novel)
2. Managing Oneself by Peter F Drucker (Business)
3. Educated by Tara Westover (Biography)
4. Sharrzard & The Angry King by Nahid Kazemi (Children’s Book)
5. Blubber by Gilbert Hernandez (Graphic Novel)
6. Several People are Typing by Calvin Kasulke (Novel)
7. No one is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (Novel)
8. The Commandant by The Rudolph Hoess (History)
9. The Geometry of Life by Koci Hernandez (Photo Book)
10. One Friday in April by Donald Antrim (Biography)
11. Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds (Graphic Novel)
12. How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine (Non-Fiction)
13. Recitatif by Toni Morrison (Novella)
14. Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov (Drama)
15. When We Cease To Understand The World by Benjamin Labatut (Fiction)
16. Cricket Karlsson by Kristina Sigunsdotter (Young Adult)
17. Let There Be Light by Liana Fink (Graphic Novel)
18. Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill (Biography)
19. Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso (Novel)
20. Please, Let Me Go by Caitlin Spencer (Young Adult)
21. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe (Graphic Novel)
22. First Love by Ivan Turgenev (Novella)
23. We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets (Novel)
24. Tracy Flick Can’t Win by Tom Perotta (Novel)
25. Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph (Drama)
26. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin (Novel)
27. Bright lights, Big City by Jay McInerney (Novel)
28. Less Than Zero by Brett Easton Ellis (Novel)
29. Nein, Nein, Nein by Jerry Stahl (Memoir)
30. The Great Man Theory by Teddy Wayne (Novel)
31. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Novel)
32. Put Your Ass Where Your Hear Is by Steven Pressfield (Self-Help)
33. Sea State by Tabitha Lasley (Memoir)
34. Slender Man: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen Hale (True Crime)
35. Acting Class by Nick Drnaso (Graphic Novel)
36. Atomic Habits by James Clear (Self-Help)
37. Maus I by Art Spieglman (Graphic Novel)
38. Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
39. Maus II by Art Spieglman (Graphic Novel)
40. Remember This: The Lessons of Jan Karski by Clark Young and Derek Goldman
41. Plagues & Pencils by Edward Carey (Memoir)
42. Ducks by Kate Beaton (Graphic Novel)
43. Our Little Secret by Emily Carrington (Graphic Novel)
44. KL by Nikolaus Wachsmann (History)
45. American Photographs by Walker Evans
46. Lucy By the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
47. My Pinup by Hilton Als (Memoir)
48. Number One is Walking by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss (Graphic Novel)
49. Foster by Claire Keegan (Novel)

Books I am currently reading but have not yet finished:

50. The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty (Novel)

51. The Tools by Phil Stutz (Self-Help)

52. Eight Days in May Volker Ullrich (History)