As we wrap up 2022, my second full year of remote working, I managed to surpass my previous records by completing a whopping 55 books, an increase of one book over last year and my second consecutive year completing the 52 books in 52 weeks challenge. I surpassed last year’s total with a mere three days remaining in 2022. I read (or listened) to 19,328 pages, by far my highest total of all time and only the third time I’ve passed 10,000.
Of those books, fifteen were non-fiction and, of the remaining 40 novels, only two were tied to a TV show, either as the source material or as a tie-in. None of the books came out of my dwindling “to-read” drawer, with 44 e-books and three audiobooks. I continued to take advantage of my library card, which helped me procure 37 of the books I consumed throughout the year.
A little more than half of the books I read this year were by authors I had read before. The 31 authors that I read for the first this year were:
| Adam Nedeff | Kelsey McKinney | Simone St. James | Laura Dave |
| Jeff Warren | Carlye Adler | Matt Paxton | Jordan Michael Smith |
| Alyssa Milano | Alex Finlay | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Emily Ratajkowski |
| Samantha Downing | Dave Grohl | Mary Lynn Rajskub | Stephanie Perkins |
| Michael Schur | Joseph Henrich | V.E. Schwab | Brianna Madia |
| Jimmy Piersall | Richard Whittingham | Richard Osman | Colleen Hoover |
| Jenette McCurdy | Sally Rooney | Josh Malerman | Alice Sebold |
| Katie Mack | Penn Jillette | Elin Hilderbrand | Nita Prose |
Alex Finlay, Simone St. James, Karin Slaughter, Megan Goldin, Jeffery Deaver, and Richard Osman were the only authors that I read multiple titles from during 2022.
16 of the books I read were released this year, while only two of them were released last century, with the oldest first published in 1953.
