2022

Here are all the books I read in 2022:

January 2022

• Master of the Senate, by Robert Caro
• Dune, by Frank Herbert
• The Antisocial Network, by Ben Mezrich
• Chesterton's Gateway, by G. K. Chesterton, Ethan Nicolle

February 2022

• Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly
• Ant Farm, by Simon Rich
• Universal Harvester, by John Darnielle
• Ickabog, by J. K. Rowling

March 2022

• Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, by Richard P. Feynman

April 2022

• All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business, by Mel Brooks
• 10 Rules of Writing, by Elmore Leonard
• How to Win an Election, by Quintus Tullius Cicero
• AMORALMAN, by Derek Delgaudio

May 2022

• On Moral Fiction, by John Gardner
• To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876, by Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney
• Zion on the Mississippi, by Walter O. Forster

June 2022

• Supernova Era, by Cixin Liu

July 2022

• Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

August 2022

• The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, by W. P. Kinsella
• How to Grow Old, by Marcus Tillius Cicero

September 2022

• Son of the Morning Star, by Evan S. Connell

October 2022

• Miracle Workers, by Simon Rich
• The Seven Laws of Teaching, by John Milton Gregory

November 2022

• Managing Oneself, by Peter F. Drucker

December 2022

• Fairy Tale, by Stephen King
• Think Again, by Adam Grant
• How to Write One Song, by Jeff Tweedy
• The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

Summary:

29 total books: 7 audio, 22 print; 11 fiction, 18 non-fiction.

Finishing The Count of Monte Cristo by the end of the year required some discipline in December, but it was worth it. I engaged a lot this year with non-fiction that I didn’t really like (On Moral Fiction and Think Again). AMORALMAN was a surprise, and I found it very interesting.

This year included our trip to Mt. Rushmore, the Badlands, Yellowstone/Grand Tetons, Glacier National Park, and the Higher Things conference. So the books about Grant and Custer were good choices.

Themes: Morality (authors trying to find absolute morality without God), how art can arise in unexpectedly meaningful ways from entering a flow state, frustration with wanting others to see you as you truly are.

Oh, I also read and enjoyed the Melville story Bartleby the Scrivener. “I prefer not to…”