I'm trying to analyze my book choices this year, but hard to really see any trends. Out of the 52 books, the total page count was 20,460 pages. I read two books in the Wheel of Time Series but they are so long it might take me another 10 years to get through all of them.
I read 19 female authors and 24 male authors, which... is unfortunate. I wanted to read more books by women and by BIPOC authors. Definitely got my fill of Agatha Christie books though, reading 6 total -- but still not done with all of her mysteries. And some of these later ones are... quite questionable. But let's not blame the ol' Dame. She really churned them out!
In 2023: more books and more exploring different ideas, genres, cultures, and viewpoints. I want to see the world through a vast array of different books. So more women authors, BIPOC authors, and other books outside of my normal thinking -- but also gotta through in some fantasy, sci-fi, and mystery books.
Now, onto lists because that's my favorite part of the year-end wrap up:
Least Favorite Book: The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason. (How can you take such a cool premise and make it be so bad?!); You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers (Eggers is not for me).
Longest Book: The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan. These Wheel of Time books are THICCCC.
Biggest Letdown: The Archived by Victoria Schwab (Boring!) or The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan (Juvenile!)
Least Favorite Character: The protagonists in You Shall Know Our Velocity!
Most Batsh*t Character: Anyone in Confessions by Kanae Minato. Insane book!!
Favorite Book: Hard to pick this year but it's between: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig; Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr; or Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson; Killing Commed
Shortest Book: Ms. Marvel: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
Favorite Character: It's impossible to choose just one. So many great characters! Maybe Lillian from Nothing to See Here. Always Hercule Poirot too!
Favorite Author: KEVIN WILSON has taken that crown this year. Such fun, witty, intriguing prose and stories!
And that's it for 2022. What are the odds that George R.R. Martin will save us all by completing The Winds of Winter in 2023?? I say this every year and it never happens!! COME ON GEORGE!!! WE need to know when these dang winds of winter are freaking coming. Okay, bye!
- ben fleck
1. America Is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo
2. Confessions - Kanae Minato
3. The Dragon Reborn - Robert Jordan
4. Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson
5. The Archived - Victoria Schwab
6. Island - Aldous Huxley
7. Deep Water - Patricia Highsmith
8. The Shadow Rising - Robert Jordan
9. Mothering Sunday - Graham Swift
10. A Winter's Promise - Christelle Dabos
11. The World of Ice & Fire - George R.R. Martin
12. Fall of Man in Wilmslow - David Lagercrantz
13. Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
14. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber - Mike Isaac
15. Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined - Scott Barry Kaufman
16. Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
17. Wanderers - Chuck Wendig
18. Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
19. Jade City - Fonda Lee
20. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
21. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
22. Ms. Marvel: No Normal - G. Willow Wilson
23. Codename Villanelle - Luke Jennings
24. Timeline - Michael Crichton
25. Find Me - Andre Aciman
26. Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami
27. The Guest List - Lucy Foley
28. The Darwin Affair - Tim Mason
29. Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Agatha Christie
30. NW - Zadie Smith
31. Siege and Storm - Leigh Bardugo
32. The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
33. Sad Cypress - Agatha Christie
34. The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
35. Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr
36. You Shall Know Our Velocity! - Dave Eggers
37. Ink and Bone - Rachel Caine
38. Deception Point - Dan Brown
39. Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith
40. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - Agatha Christie
41. Ruin and Rising - Leigh Bardugo
42. The Family Fang - Kevin Wilson
43. The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd
44. Evil Under the Sun - Agatha Christie
45. The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune
46. Five Little Pigs - Agatha Christie
47. The Hollow - Agatha Christie
48. Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
49. Poison for Breakfast - Lemony Snicket
50. Book Lovers - Emily Henry
51. Into the Dark - Claudia Gray
52. The Unhoneymooners - Christina Lauren
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