I don’t even know how this happened, but I somehow completely forgot to do my 2022 wrap-up post. I can only promise myself that my 2023 post will be a lot more timely, and also a lot more in-depth; I just didn’t want to let the entire year go by without making this!

Stats

Total books read: 128

Total pages read: 40,372

Longest book: 805 pages (House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas)

Shortest book: 28 pages (Bloody Summer by Carmen Maria Machado)

Average book length: 315 pages

Most popular (on Goodreads): The Guest List by Lucy Foley, shelved 2,503,72 times

Least popular (on Goodreads): Check Your Work by Skye Kilaen, shelved 377 times

Average rating: 3.9 stars

Highest rated book on Goodreads: The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee, 4.64 average rating

 

 

Top 10 favorite books of 2022:

Love and Other Disasters by Anita Kelly (contemporary romance); My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (short story collection); Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (science fiction/fantasy); All’s Well by Mona Awad (fabulism)

Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap (short story collection); Book Lovers by Emily Henry (contemporary romance); Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda (fantasy); How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann (fairytale retelling)

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (nonfiction); Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (literary fiction)

 

Top 10 runner-up favorite books of 2022:

The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee (nonfiction); Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins (short story collection); The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente (science fiction); The Mask of Mirrors by M. A. Carrick (fantasy)

Bloody Summer by Carmen Maria Machado (short story); Jade City by Fonda Lee (fantasy); Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (short story collection); Cackle by Rachel Harrison (horror)

The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (fantasy); Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood (contemporary romance)

 

Longest books I read in 2022:

House of Sky and Breath (805 pages)

Mask of Mirrors (630 pages)

Jade City (560 pages)

Firekeeper’s Daughter (496 pages)

Caste (496 pages)

The Spanish Love Deception (482 pages)