Sunday, January 1, 2023

What I Read in 2022

Here are the books I read in 2022. This is more for me, but I would recommend almost all of these. 47 are by female authors -34%.

  • A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce by Massimo Montanari, translated by Gregory Conti
  • Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
  • All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle Easter Terror by Stephen Kinzer
  • American Dialogue: The Founders and Us by Joseph J. Ellis
  • American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen
  • Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West - One Meal at a Time by Stephen Fried
  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai City by Katherine Boo
  • Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby by Candida Moss
  • Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times by Mark Leibovich
  • Bless Me Ultima by Rudolph Anaya
  • Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brene Brown
  • Breathe: A Letter to My Son by Imani Perry
  • Brother of Jesus, Friend of God: Studies in the Letter of James by Luke Timothy Johnston
  • Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a  Data-Driven World by Carl Bergstom
  • Canto Bight by Saladin Ahmed
  • Click: The Magic of Instant Connections by Ori Brafman
  • Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy
  • Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman
  • Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit: Growing in Christlikeness by Christopher J.H. Wright
  • Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell
  • December '41: A World War II Thriller by William Martin
  • Do Fathers Matter?: What Science is Telling Us About the Parent We've Overlooked by Paul Raeburn
  • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
  • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - And Why Things are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
  • Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to do About It by Brian D. McClaren
  • Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth that Made Texas by Bryan Burrough
  • Forgiveness is a Choice: A Step-by-Step Process for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope by Robert D. Enright
  • Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace With Painful Memories and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again by Lysa TerKeurst
  • Foster by Claire Keegan
  • Freedom by Sebastian Junger
  • Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder and Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder
  • From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back edited by Elizabeth Schaefer
  • Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
  • Good Enough: 40ish Devotions for a Life of Imperfection by Kate Bowler
  • Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
  • How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery in America by Clint Smith
  • How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  • Jane Austen: A Life by Carol Shields
  • Liberalism and its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama
  • Life Lessons: Book of James by Max Lucado
  • Life on the Vine: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit by Philip D. Kenneson
  • Los Alamos by Jospeh Kanon
  • Love for Imperfect Things by Haemin Sunim
  • Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
  • Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age and the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Made the Present by Phillip Blom
  • Neuroscience and the Fruit of the Spirit by Bryan Spoon
  • Never by Ken Follett
  • Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life by Harold S. Kushner
  • No Beast so Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Man-Eater in History by Dane Huckelbridge
  • Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman
  • Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
  • One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com by Richard L. Brandt
  • Open by Andre Agassi and J.R. Moehringer
  • Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s by Nicole Hemmer
  • Perfecting Ourselves to Death: The Pursuit of Excellence and the Perils of Perfectionism by Richard Winter
  • Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship by Robert Kurson
  • Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
  • Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
  • Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West by Catherine Belton
  • Putin's World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest by Angela Stent
  • Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men by Sandra Neil Wallace
  • Recitatif: A Story by Toni Morrison
  • Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson
  • Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill by Mark lee Gardner
  • Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich
  • Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
  • Sparring Partners by John Grisham
  • Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
  • Stories of Jedi and Sith edited by Roseanne A. Brown
  • Sword of Kings by Bernard Cornwell
  • Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell
  • Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse
  • Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission by Mark Leibovich
  • The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway by Ben Mezrich
  • The Associate by John Grisham
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcom X and Alex Haley
  • The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World by Desmond Tutu
  • The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
  • The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
  • The Boston Massacre: A Family History by Serena R. Zabin
  • The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham
  • The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell
  • The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
  • The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters by Juliette Kayyem
  • The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age by Jake S. Friedman
  • The Empty Throne by Bernard Cornwell
  • The Flame Bearer by Bernard Cornwell
  • The Fruit of the Spirit: Becoming the Person God Wants You to Be by Thomas E. Trask
  • The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb by James W. Kunetka
  • The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
  • The Journey: Forgiveness, Restorative Justice and Reconciliation by Stephanie Hixon and Tom Porter
  • The Judge's List by John Grisham
  • The Last Chairlift by John Irving
  • The Love Song of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
  • The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel by Beth Allison Barr
  • The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  • The Name of God is Mercy by Pope Francis
  • The Name of War: King Phillip's War and the Origins of the American Identity by Jill Lepore
  • The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
  • The One-Hundred Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
  • The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell
  • The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Murray
  • The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
  • The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mercy of God's Mercy by Timothy Keller
  • The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed by Wendy Lower
  • The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodward
  • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
  • The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach  to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
  • The Taking of Jemima Boone: The true Story of the Kidnap and Rescue that Shaped America by Matthew Pearl
  • The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
  • The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
  • The Unfolding by AM Homes
  • The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe In by Richard Rohr
  • The Vinedresser's Notebook: Spiritual Lessons in Pruning, Waiting, Harvesting and Abundance by Judith Sutera
  • The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic by Jillian Peterson
  • The Wives of Los Alamos by Tara Shea Nesbit
  • Toxic Positivity: Keeping it Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy by Whitney Goodman
  • Twin: A Memoir by Allen Shawn
  • Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
  • Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus' Wife by Ariel Sabar
  • War Lord by Bernard Cornwell
  • War of the Wolf by Bernard Cornwell
  • Warriors of the Storm by Bernard Cornwell
  • We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier Boys School by Erin Kimmerle
  • Wesley and the Quadrilateral: Renewing the Conversation by Stephen W. Gunter
  • What I Told My Daughter: Lessons from Leaders on Raising the Next Generation of Empowered Women by Nina Tassler
  • When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace by Ruth Chou Simons
  • Who Killed Jane Stanford: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University by Richard White
  • Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans
  • Why I am a United Methodist by William H. Willimon
  • Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation by Alan Burdick
  • Wooly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures by Ben Mezrich
  • You are Not Special and Other Encouragements by David McCullough, Jr.
  • Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig

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