Here is my book list for 2022. After three years of pandemic and other personal challenges, I finally managed to turn the year into more reading (albeit with a large dose of Michael Connelly, which I found easy to read amidst other chaos). As usual, my favorites are shown in bold. 

Notable for this year….more fiction than usual (though the majority of my favorites seem to have been nonfiction); a good selection of western/environmental reads; and the first time I’ve been able to get into Ursual LeGuin (the Hainish cycle, which I’ll continue in 2023).

1. Bewilderment by Richard Powers
2. Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers
3. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
4. With or Without You by Domenica Ruta
5. Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller
6. Shelter by Harlan Coben
7. Blue Nights by Joan Didion
8. Desert Heat by J.A. Jance
9. Tombstone Courage by J.A. Jance
10. Crying in H Mart by Michele Zauner
11. The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
12. Reasons She Goes to the Woods by Deborah Kay Davies
13. The Book Doctor by Esther Cohen
14. Life From Scratch by Sasha Martin
15. Off the Road by Jack Hitt
16. Good Husbandry by Kristin Kimball
17. Letters to a Young Chef by Daniel Boulud
18. 52 Loaves by William Alexander
19. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
20. The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
21. Miraculous Abundance by Perrine and Charles Herve-Gruyer
22. The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
23. Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Davis
24. Lives on the Line by Miriam Davidson
25. The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
26. The Desert Year by Joseph Wood Krutch
27. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen
28. Bird Cloud by Annie Poulx
29. Desert Oracle by Ken Layne
30. Long Lost by Harlan Coben
31. South and West by Joan Didion
32. Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
33. Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
34. Recapitulation by Wallace Stegner
35. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
36. Fight Night by Miriam Toews
37. Existence by David Brin
38. Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
39. Elevation by Stephen King
40. The Judge’s List by John Grisham
41. High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson
42. Slow Horses by Mick Herron
43. The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
44. The Etiquette of Freedom by Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and Paul Ebenkamp
45. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
46. Dalva by Jim Harrison
47. Dead Lions by Mick Herron
48. Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder
49. The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
50. Strip Jack by Ian Rankin
51. The Reversal by Michael Connelly
52. Echo Park by Michael Connelly
53. The Overlook by Michael Connelly
54. Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
55. The Drop by Michael Connelly
56. The Scarecrow  by Michael Connelly
57. The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
58. The Black Box by Michael Connelly
59. The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly
60. The Burning Room by Michael Connelly
61. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
62. Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
63. French Braid by Anne Tyler
64. Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
65. Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
66. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
67. A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
68. Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
69. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
70. Ranger Confidential by Andrea Lankford
71. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
72. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
73. Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
74. Rocannon’s World by Ursula LeGuin
75. Planet of Exile by Ursula LeGuin
76. City of Illusions by Ursula LeGuin
77. Wrenched from the Land by ML Lincoln
78. The Red Caddy by Charles Bowden