Here’s everything I read this year, plus statistics. Links are to Bookshop (but if you wanna buy it on Amazon or support a local shop or check it out from the library, as always, do what’s best for your conscience and financial situation).
(Previous lists: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007)
- January 11: Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood (started in 2021)
- January 29: Aimee Byrd, Recovering From Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
- March 5: Lina Meruane, Nervous System
- March 14: Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
- March 22: Leonard J. Vander Zee, Christ, Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper
- March 29: Kelsey McKinney, God Spare the Girls
- April 21: Lauren Groff, Matrix
- May 11: Michael Allen, Grounded In Heaven
- May 25: Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
- May 31: Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
- *June 11: Lauren F. Winner, Girl Meets God
- June 13: Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
- June 14: Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club
- June 18: Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse
- June 22: Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
- June 24: Rick Riordan: The Last Olympian
- *July 6: Kendra Adachi, The Lazy Genius Way
- August 7: Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
- August 8, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjölblom, Palimpsest
- August 12: Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
- August 13: Gene Luen Yang, Boxers
- August 26: Kendra Adachi, The Lazy Genius Kitchen
- September 5: Amanda Montell, Cultish
- September 15: Gene Luen Yang, Saints
- September 17: Christopher B. Kaiser, The Doctrine of God
- October 2: Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
- October 4: Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit
- October 7: Dan Allender, The Healing Path
- November 4: Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few
- November 6: Andy Crouch, Playing God
- November 7: Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild Built
- November 10: Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
- Norember 19: Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
- December 3: Susan Grove Eastman, Paul and the Person
- December 3: Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts
- December 22: Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
- December 28: Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer In the Night
total: 37
fiction: 19
nonfiction: 15
graphic novels/memoirs/comics: 3
poetry: 0 (oops)
e-books: 18
library books: 25
re-reads: 2
books read for class: 6
books written by women: 23
books written by Black people, indigenous people, or people of color: 10
most read author: Becky Chambers, with 6
top 10 (in no particular order): Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Matrix, Playing God, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Our Missing Hearts, Everything Sad is Untrue, The Lazy Genius Kitchen, Sea of Tranquility, Boxers