Reading Report 2022

This is now the sixth year of my “reading report”. Certainly long enough to be called the “annual reading report”. I surpassed my goal of 40 books by reading 44 books. I’m struggling to pick a goal for next year. Currently I have Goodreads set to 40 which is slightly below the six year average of 42. I hope to push myself this year and surpass the goal again. Here is the Goodreads produced a My Year in Books

Several things stand out to me as I review the list of books. I discovered several new authors and tried to read much of their catalog. I read multiple books about Jews and Judaism. I expect these trends to continue. I read multiple books with fewer than 200 pages. This probably helped with the overall book count but is reflected in the comparisons to last year.

Here are the stats with the change from the previous year in parentheses.

  • Books Read: 44 (+2)
  • Fiction Books: 27 (-3)
  • Non-Fiction Books: 17 (+5)
  • Pages Read: 15,293 (-2,132)
  • Longest Book: 740 (Red Storm Rising)
  • Shortest Book: 133 (Jews Don’t Count)
  • Mean Book Length: 348 (-67)
  • Median Book Length: 348 (-37)
  • Month with most books read: January, March, November (5)
  • Month with fewest books read: May, August (2)

Book List

  • Leviathan Falls Corey, James S.A.
  • Dune Herbert, Frank
  • The Clan Corporate Stross, Charles
  • Join Toutonghi, Steve
  • As a Driven Leaf Steinberg, Milton
  • Wahoo The patrols of America’s most famous WWII submarine O’Kane, Richard
  • The Splendid and the Vile Larson, Erik
  • Gideon The Ninth Muir, Gideon
  • Dawnshard Sanderson, Brandon
  • Jews don’t Count Baddiel, David
  • The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • Grunt: the curious science of humans at war Roach, Mary
  • Salt Sugar Fat Moss, Michael
  • Kaiju Preservation Society Scalzi, John
  • Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom
  • In The Image Horn, Data
  • Sacred Trash Hoffman, Adina
  • The City We Became Jemisin, N.K.
  • The Birthday of the World Le Guin, Ursula
  • Malibu Rising Reid, Taylor
  • Jews on the Frontier Rabin, Shari
  • Sixteen Ways to Defend A Walled City Parker, K.J.
  • Who By Fire Friedman, Matti
  • How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It Parker, K.J.
  • The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet Chambers, Becky
  • All About Me Brooks, Mel
  • Invisible Monsters Palahniuk, Chuck
  • A Closed and Common Orbit Chambers, Becky
  • Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean Kritzler, Edward
  • Record of a Spaceborn Few Chambers, Becky
  • The Book and the Sword Halivi Weiss, David
  • Pumpkinflowers: a soldier’s story Friedman, Matti
  • How to Invent Everything North, Ryan
  • This is my God Wouk, Herman
  • Can’t we talk about something more pleasant Chast, Roz
  • Spinning Silver Novik, Naomi
  • A Deadly Education Novik, Naomi
  • Circe Miller, Madeline
  • Red Harvest Hammett, Dashiell
  • The Last Graduate Novik, Naomi
  • The Golden Enclaves Novik, Naomi
  • The Aleppo Codex Friedman, Matti
  • The World We Make Jemisin, N.K.
  • Hidden Heretics Fader, Ayala
2023-01-03