For “best book of 2022”, I choose Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks.
(It’s actually the end of 2024 now, so I don’t remember all 45 of the books I read in 2022 well enough to do a fair comparison. I’m choosing this one by Sacks because it’s always a pleasure to read his stuff, and I hadn’t read this one before.)
Other books I really enjoyed in 2022, according to the annotations in my log, include all six of Jane Austen’s novels, Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, the entire Dragonwatch series by Brandon Mull, and Never Split the Difference by Chriss Voss with Tahl Raz.
See below for a complete list, book cover thumbnails, and thoughts on the quantity, format, and content of the books I read in 2024.
Total Quantity
In 2022 I read 45 books. I think that’s the fewest books per year since I started my log in 1999, the first time I’ve read less than a book a week. (Oh well.)
Format
Looks like 18/45 were ebooks.
Content
20 fiction, 25 nonfiction.
Singapore Hungry Hundred Book Club
(classics chosen by Rachel)
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Candide by Voltaire
- The Nine Cloud Dream by Kim Man-jung, translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl
- The Cloud Dream of the Nine by Kim Man-Choong, translated by James Gale
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
Other classics
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- White Fang by Jack London
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Children’s/middle-grade/YA fantasy fiction
» Read why I think Brandon Mull’s books are awesome.
- Dragonwatch (Dragonwatch 1) by Brandon Mull
- Wrath of the Dragon King (Dragonwatch 2) by Brandon Mull
- Master of the Phantom Isle (Dragonwatch 3) by Brandon Mull
- Champion of the Titan Games (Dragonwatch 4) by Brandon Mull
- Return of the Dragon Slayers (Dragonwatch 5) by Brandon Mull
Other fiction
- The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb
Nonfiction
- Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
- On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
- Beyond Order by Jordan B. Peterson
- Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson
- The Art of How to Train Your Dragon by Tracey Miller-Zameke
- The Art of How to Train Your Dragon 2 by Linda Sunshine
- The Art of How to Train Your Dragon 3 by Linda Sunshine
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
- The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking by Dale Carnegie
- Outlining Your Novel by K.M. Weiland
- Structuring Your Novel by K.M. Weiland
- How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method by Randy Ingermanson
- Freedom Regained by Julian Baggini
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
- How to Study a Novel by John Peck
- Feng Shui Modern by Cliff Tan
- The Undercover Economist Strikes Back by Tim Harford
- The Objectivist Newsletter Volumes 1-4 (1962-1965) by Second Renaissance
- One Couple Two Cultures by Dan Waters
- China Scenes by China Pictorial
- Translating Great Russian Literature: The Penguin Russian Classics by Cathy McAteer (just the free chapters)
- Critical Thinking Skills by Stella Cottrell
All together now!
That’s it for 2022!
