Saturday, December 31, 2022

2022 Reading List

January

1. Master Humphrey’s Clock, Charles Dickens

2. King of the Blues, The Rise and Reign of B.B. King, Daniel De Visé

3. Southtown, Rick Riordan

4. Call Us What We Carry, Amanda Gorman

5. A Closed and Common Orbit, Becky Chambers

6. Sharpe’s Assassin, Bernard Cornwell

7. Stargazer, Anne Hillerman

8. Captain Putnam for the Republic of Texas, James L. Haley

9. A Thousand Steps, T. Jefferson Parker

10. CSNY Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Peter Doggett

11. John Prine, Erin Osmon

12. Tapestry, Loren Glass

13. Anthem, Noah Hawley


February

14. Quantum of Nightmares, Charles Stross

15. Mouth to Mouth, Antoine Wilson

16. Sharpe’s Prey, Bernard Cornwell

17. The Little Book of Fantastic Four, Roy Thomas

18. Termination Shock, Neal  Stephenson

19. Empire of the Summer Moon, S.C. Gwynne

20. Let It Be, Steve Matteo

21. Devil House, John Darnielle

22. Sharpe’s Siege, Bernard Cornwell

23. Swordfishtrombones, David Smay

24. There There, Tommy Orange


March

25. None But The Righteous, Chantal James

26. She Rides Shotgun, Jordan Harper

27. The Golden Age of DC Comics, 1935-1956, Paul Levitz

28. The Forties, False Dawn2, Edith Wharton

29. The Fifties, False The Old Maid2, Edith Wharton

30. The  'Sixties, The Spark2, Edith Wharton

31. The ’Seventies, New Year’s Day2, Edith Wharton

32. Escape From Yokai Land, Charles Stross

33. Shadows Reel, C.J. Box

34. Secret Identity, Alex Segura

35. French Braid, Anne Tyler


April

36. The Book of the Dun Cow*, Walter Wangerin, Jr.

37. Monstress, Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda

38. American Comics, A History, Jeremy Dauber

39. Vietnam Nurse, Mending & Remembering, Lou Eisenbrandt

40. The Name of the Game, Will Eisner

41. The Cocktail Waitress, James M. Cain

42. The Candy House, Jennifer Egan

43. We Spoke Out, Comic Books and the Holocaust, Neal Adams,

Rafael Medoff & Craig Yoe.

44. The Little Book of Captain America, Roy Thomas

45. Last Night,  A Superhero Saved My Life, ed. Liesa Mignogna

46. The Ghost In You, Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips

47. Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers.


May

48. The Power of the Dog, Don Winslow

49. Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey

50. The Dawn Patrol, Don Winslow

51. Index, A History of the, Dennis Duncan

52. Don’t Know Tough, Eli Cranor

53. City On Fire, Don Winslow

54. The Best American Mystery Stories 2013, ed. Lisa Scottoline & Otto Penzler


June

55. Spear, Nicola Griffith

56. Sleepwalk, Dan Chaon

57. The Galaxy and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers

58. You Have A Friend in 10A, Maggie  Shipstead

59. Covered With Night, Nicole Eustace

60. Unsteady As She Goes, Lou Eisenbrandt

61. Waverley, Sir Walter Scott

62. Load the Wagon, The Kansas Jayhawks’ Road to the 2022

Championship, The Athletic

63. Crimiinal Vol. 1, Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips

64. Bloomsbury Girls, Natalie Jenner

65. Crimiinal Vol. 2, Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips


July

66. Carlucci’s Heart, Richard Paul Russo

67. The Jane Austen Society, Natalie Jenner

68. A Factotum in the Book Trade, Marius Kociejowski

69. Brian  Talbot, The Library of Graphic Novelists, Lita Sorensen

70. Opalite Moon, Denise Vitola

71. Stan Lee, How Marvel Changed the World!, Adrian MacKinder

72. A Coffin for  Dimitrios, Eric Ambler

73. Winter Work, Dan Fesperman

74. The Ribbon of Road Ahead, Carol Clupny


August

75. The It Girl, Ruth Ware

76. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin

77. Ringworld’s Children, Larry Niven

78. Confidence, Denise Mina

79. Slow River, Nicola Griffith

80. Heat 2, Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner

81. Dolphin Junction, Mick Herron

82. Hearts of Lions, The History of American Bicycle Racing,

Peter Joffre Nye


September

83. Slow Horses@, Mick Herron

84. Dead Lions@, Mick Herron

85. Fairy Tale, Stephen King

86. The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O’Farrell

87. Jack Kirby, The Epic Life of the King of Comics, Tm Scioli

88. Hell and Back, Craig Johnson


October

89. One By One, Ruth Ware

90. Lucy By The Sea, Elizabeth Strout

91. Path Lit By Lightning, The Life of Jim Thrope,  David Maraniss

92. Real Tigers@, Mick Herron

93. Sharpe’s Fortress, Bernard Cornwell

94. Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng

95. The Search for the Genuine, Nonfiction, 1970-2015, Jim Harrison

96. A Heart Full of Headstones, Ian Rankin

97. The Death of Mrs. Westaway, Ruth Ware


November

98. The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy

99. Completely Mad, A History of the Comic Book and

Magazine, Maria Reidelbach

100. Spook Street@, Mick Herron

101. Ducks, Two Years in the Oil Sands, Kate Beaton

102. Batman & Me, Bob Kane with Tom Andrae

103. Shrines of Gaiety, Kate Atkinson

104. Desert Star, Michael Connelly

105. Racing the Light, Robert Crais

106. London Rules@, Mick Herron

107. No Plan B, Andrew Child & Lee Child

108. Treasure State, C.J. Box


December

109. Demon Copperfield, Barbara Kingsolver

110. And There Was Light, Abraham Lincoln and the American

Struggle, Jon Meacham

111. My Darkest Prayer, S.A. Cosby

112. A Psalm for the Wild-Built1, Becky Chambers

113. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy1, Becky Chambers

114. The Last King of California, Jordan Harper

115. Play All Night! Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore

East, Bob  Beatty

116. A World of Curiosities, Louise Penny

117. Folk Music, A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs, Greil Marcus


*reread

@ Slough House novels

1A Monk and Robot Book

2Wharton’s Old New York novels