2022 Wrap Up and 2023 Thoughts

Wow. It's been a while since I wrote anything here. I stopped reading for a while due to all sorts of reasons, and when I started back up, I wanted to read without the work of reviewing. But I'm back. I think.

Favorite books from 2022: 

- The Ladies of the Secret Circuis by Constance Sayers

- The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

Most Weirdly Accurate to Life: 

- The End of Men by Caroline Sweeney-Baird 

Longest: 

- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Shortest: 

- The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

Full list of what I Read

1. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman 
2. Carrie by Stephen King
3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4. The Hawthorne School by Sylvie Perry
5. The Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck
6. The Beast's Heart by Leife Shallcross
7. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
8. The Sleep Solution by W Chris Winter
9. Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
10. The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde
11. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
12. Catching Fire by Suzanne Colling
13. The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde
14. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
15. The Eye of Zoltar by Jasper Fforde
16. Questland by Carrie Vaughn
17. Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas
18. The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
19. The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
20. The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud
21. The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud
22. The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud
23. The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud
24. On a Night of a Thousand Stars by Andrea Varyura Clark
25. Fencing With the King by Diana Abu-Jaber
26. The Ladies of the Secret Circus by Constance Sayers
27. The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu
28. The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird
29. The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
30. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
31. Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
32. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
33. The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
34. The Girl who Kicked a Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
35. The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
36. Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T. L. Huchu

Coming up in 2023

I have two main reading focuses this year. 

First, I extended my Classics Club list to 2024. I'd like to finish as many of the books on that list as possible before the year's end. Currently through most of Martin Chuzzlewitt!

Secondly, I have an absolute backlog of professional development books that I am really looking forward to reading. I've just been so distracted by the wonderful shiny books on my Overdrive wishlist!

Have a great New Year all!