#2022 books*

[luciehercndale]

books I've read in 2022 - daisy jones & the six by taylor jenkins reid I'd believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn't, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who's suffering from the same stuff you are.

#daisy jones and the six #taylor jenkins reid #daisy jones #billy dunne #litedit #bookedit #daisy jones & the six #graham dunne #camila dunne #karen karen #booksociety #litsociety #book edit #book tumblr #my posts 3 #2022 books

[vympr]

me when i don't know where southeast asia is

#'indian. or perhaps bangladeshi. afghan maybe.' #2022 books

[theepitomeofanakaren]

Zine: 2022 - My year in books

My first zine of the year and it’s about last year 😅 My goal in 2022 was to read at least 23 (because 23 is my favorite number) and I was amazed when I realized that I was actually able to read more than 23 books in a year 📚 I already have so many new books waiting for me to be read this year and I am so excited 💖🥰 Also, this year I started reading Neil Gaiman again (this time I read it of my own free will and not as a school assignment) and now I’m obsessed with him. 🫶🏼

#art zines #zine making #art journal #journaling #zines #zine #reading #read in 2022 #goodreads #my year in books #books #bookish #booksbooksbooks #reading challenge #2022 books

[lambergeier]

2022 book post FINALLY

this post is six weeks late because, frankly, i was on my honeymoon over new years and its hard to get up the will to type all this shit when everyone has already posted their book lists ages ago!! but also i read a lot of good books last year and wish to gloat, so here we are. italics are rereads, bold are my favorites, asterisks denote not-prose, and reviews are interspersed throughout as i felt like it:

January

No One is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood (this book made me cry so hard lmao. first part is a sickeningly true-to-life depiction of Being A Blue Check Person and then the second part makes you cry so bad.)

Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon (what the fuck happened to the last third of this book? what shit-ass x-men knock-off did it come from?)

What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France - Mary Louise Roberts (got on a whole ww2 history kick because, gotta be real, i watched all of band of brothers during winter break 2021-2022 and developed a bug up my ass. pulled this off the shelf at the library on a whim and it was STUNNING. excellently, thoroughly told history of sex, venereal disease, and race among american GIs in normany following the invasion. would read anything roberts now.)

How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Andreas Malm

Hello, Sailor: The hidden history of gay life at sea - Paul Baker and Jo Stanley

Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II - Allan Berube (another excellent ww2 book, frequently quoted on this site and for good reason. not written by a historian, so incredibly easy and engaging to read, that presents you with just this amazing overview of how modern american queer identity was totally, inextricably shaped by the us military and the experience of being part of it or even just near it lmao)

February

Possession - A.S. Byatt (really really lovely romance that was such a consistent pleasure to read that i got to the end basically unable to remember favorite lines or even scenes i was just like mmmmmmmm. book good.)

Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener

Howl’s Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones

The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World - Patrick Wyman (this book sucked ass we gotta stop giving podcasters history books)

Watership Down - Richard Adams (so fucked up. loved this. love that we give this to children to read.)

Dead Collections - Isaac Fellman

March

The Hidden Palace - Helene Wecker (much better than its prequel, imho! resolved many pacing issues but lost no heart!)

The Vanishing Half - Britt Bennet (part of the reason i managed to read so much this year is that i had to drive a lot for work and started putting audiobooks on in the car, having never been an audiobook person before. i listened almost entirely to contemporary litfic this way, a genre i also had not previously engage with, and this was both a fascinating entry into an entire other world of books and also kinda boring sometimes lmao. vanishing half was good, certainly better than some of the other stuff i ended up listening to, but still not something i would have finished if i weren't in the car)

The Reformation - Patrick Collinson (this bitch was so funny his preface to the book was 'i didn't list any sources because i've been teaching this topic for 60 years. the source is Me.' anyways almost totally unreadable but did provide me some good context on the counter-reformation, which i want to learn more about.)

Fleischman is in Trouble - Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Home Baked - Alia Volz (soooooo good all bay area homies please read this)

River of Stars - Vanessa Hua

April

Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki (INSANE BOOK. SO FUN.)

*Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller

Book of Dust - Phillip Pullman

Gold Diggers - Sanjena Sathian

*Angels in America - Tony Kushner (disconnected me from reality for like 24 straight hours. scared to reread it.)

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (read this in high school and hated it because i was a DUMB TEENAGER!! THIS BOOK IS SO FUNNY!!)

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett

Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett

May

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia (strongly eh.)

Oh the Glory of it All - Sean Wilsey (loved it but feels impossible to recommend.)

Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey

Foundation - Isaac Asimov (absolutely fascinating as like, a history of the genre thing, even if i only "enjoyed" reading the first two or three stories lol. also, HE COULDN'T PREDICT FIAT CURRENCY?? ACTUAL PLOT POINT THAT THERE AREN'T ENOUGH METALS ON THE PLANET TO MINT COINS???? reader i lost my mind.)

June

All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy (all the pretty horses my insane high school problematic fave. i will never read the sequels)

Have His Carcase - Dorothy L. Sayers

The Power - Naomi Alderman (as i said on private twitter after rereading, this book makes me sick to my stomach not because of the gender shit, which is like, i know what the book's about that's what it's about it's not gonna be a different book, but christ it's so bleak. love an oral history style but i gave my copy away once i finished lmao.)

Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers

July

Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid (great audiobook narrator, and a very funny book)

Several People are Typing - Calvin Kasulke (PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS AUDIOBOOK THEY HIRED A FULL RADIO-PLAY STYLE CAST AND SURE THE ACTUAL STORY DOESN'T STICK THE LANDING BUT IT'S SO FUNNY. i finished it on my own and immediately put it back on for emma to enjoy. so good.)

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South - Stephanie Jones-Rogers

Hawk Mountain - Conner Habib (oughhhhouguhughuhghh the dread. great book. wretched creeping horror. queer, if that matters. gives you the Dread.)

There, There - Tommy Orange

August

If an Egyptian Can’t Speak English - Noor Naga (experimental fiction, i listened to it on audiobook and actually missed a lot of what it was doing in print but still incredibly good. absolute sucker punch of an ending.)

The Loneliest Americans - Jay Caspian King

Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People - Elizabeth Fenn (great clear thorough history of the mandan nation of the upper missouri river, really enjoyed this.)

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us - Ed Yong (ed yong is the best science writer working today and this book was tremendous. i quoted like every other line of it to emma and she still went and borrowed it as soon as i was done. we immediately bought a copy for the house.)

Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII - Mary Louise Roberts

September

Black Sun - Rebecca Roanhorse (damn so much modern sff is bad)

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life - Ed Yong (not as good as the animal book but still VERY good)

Dark Rise - C.S. Pacat (unfuckingreadable. a masterclass of incoherent bullshit)

Nona the Ninth - taz lol (this should not have been its own book.)

*Ducks - Kate Beaton (cannot recommend highly enough. intense subject matter, also made me cry many times, but holy shit ms beaton you killed it with this one)

Unreleased Friend Book that I Love So Bad (soon!!)

Normal People - Sally Rooney

October

Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (another book i haven't reread since high school holden ilu. you are my little problems boy)

Pachinko - Min Jin Lee (read it all in one day while on various airplanes. what a BOOK)

Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Foundation - Mercedes Lackey (thus begins the valdemar stage of the year)

My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh (uh. would not recommend.)

November

Devil House - John Darnielle (ur crazy for this one mr mountain goats. still don't know if it was good or bad lol.)

Arrows of the Queen - Mercedes Lackey

Arrows Flight - Mercedes Lackey

Arrows Fall - Mercedes Lackey

Magic’s Pawn - Mercedes Lackey (vanyel i love you)

December

Magic’s Promise - Mercedes Lackey (vanyel i'm obsessed with you)

Empire of Wild - Cherie Dimaline

Magic’s Price - Mercedes Lackey (oh misty we did NOT stick the landing here. rip to vanyel.)

Winter Counts - David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Neuromancer - William Gibson (loved so many individual sentences and, like foundation, a very interesting work for understanding the history of the genre. however in many ways, totally incomprehensible.)

total books: 66!!! nice work, me! really enjoyed how much i read in 2022 and how generally varied it was and after a long while of not reading too much at all, it's been very nice being back in the swing of it. also god non-fiction is so good. i can't read it particularly fast but every time i read a good one i enjoy it so immensely. look forward to reading more of it this year!!!

AND, FINALLY, A SHOUT OUT TO THE WORST DNF OF 2022:

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab sucks shit.

#2022 books #sorry if i was mean to book you liked i will do it again #went back in and added all the subtitles for the nonfiction whoops #book post

[contracat25]

Ooooh August is looking good! Alright we are already part of the way into this month, but as there are again a lot of fantastic sounding books coming out here are some of my most anticipated. Also the longer I have time to think about these the longer the lists get ... Oops. (This isn't even including the handful of really exciting sequals coming out this month.)

How to Get a Girlfriend When You're a Terrifying Monster by Arie Carno

The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia

The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai

High Times in Low Parliament by Kelly Robson

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

#Booklr #upcoming releases #Upcoming books #2022 releases #2022 books #Queer books #Queer ssf #Romance #How to get a girlfriend when you're a terrifying Monster #The Bruising of Qilwa #The Feeling of Falling in Love #These Fleeting Shadows #In the event of love #the book eaters #Unwieldy Creatures #High Times in Low Parliament #a taste of gold and iron

[heavenlyyshecomes]

Of Istanbul, he remembers a vague light, a subtle sweetness mixed with bitterness, a distant music, soft shapes, pleasures rusted by time, the pain of violence, of loss: the abandon of hands that life did not let him touch, faces he’ll never caress, bridges that haven’t even yet been raised.

Mathias Enard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants, tr. Charlotte Mandell

#😣 #mathias enard #Charlotte mandell #tell them of battles kings and elephants #words #istanbul #🌟 #french literature #2022 books #mine

[banksreads]

Haunting Adeline #1 by HD Carlton Spoilers

asfkgsk WHATT?

😭

oh sibby😭

😔

#haunting adeline #cat and mouse #hd carlton #zade meadows #adeline reilly #i love him #i love them #2022 books #read #readers of tumblr #reading #tumblr girls #tumblelog #tumblr #tumblrpost #me #bookworm #book blr #books #relationship #book blog #books and libraries #book blogger #tumblog #pintetest

[belle-keys]

“My ambition has long felt oppressive. It is not a joy– it is a master that I must answer to, a smoke that descends into my life, making it hard to breathe. It is only my discipline, my willingness to push myself harder, that has been my way through.”

- Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2022)

#carrie soto is back #taylor jenkins reid #tjr #malibu rising #books #historical fiction #book blog #book quotes #2022 books

[bookcub]

these are always fun so i am jumping on the bandwagon

#booklr #books of 2022 #2022 books

[readingrobin]

It wouldn't be the new year without a round up list! Here are all the books I got to reading in 2022. How many have you read?

#2022 books #reading #lists

[luciehercndale]

2022 books: six of crows duology by leigh bardugo

Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?" "Knife to the throat?" asked Inej. "Gun to the back?" said Jesper. "Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina. "You're all horrible," said Matthias.

#six of crows #crooked kingdom #yaedit #litedit #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #jesper fahey #nina zenik #matthias he #wylan van eck #soc edit #the crows #bookedit #book society #litsociety #socdaily #my posts 3 #2022 books

[vympr]

'ACT UP' PROTESTS AZT PRICES AT STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 14, 1989

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"Just before trading began on September 14, 1989, seven AIDS activists snuck into the New York Stock Exchange. They walked in through the Broad Street entrance, having falsified Bear Stearns badges, and filed in with the crush of brokers and traders. Underneath their two-piece suit business drag, they concealed everything needed for the morning’s action: marine airhorns, two cameras loaded with high ASA film, a handwritten banner, metal chains, handcuffs without keys and wads of fake paper cash.

Inside the exchange, two of the seven peeled off and stood on the floor, readying their cameras. The other five ducked underneath a rope and climbed a staircase that led to a balcony, which overlooked the exchange’s storied floor. Then they threaded their metal chains through the balcony’s spindles and locked themselves into place, in the hopes of delaying their inevitable arrests.

Then they lowered their banner, which read “Sell Wellcome,” an imperative to ditch the stocks of Burroughs Wellcome, the pharmaceutical company that manufactured AZT. At the time, AZT was the most expensive pharmaceutical ever brought to market, and it was one of Burroughs Wellcome’s biggest profit makers. Seconds before the opening bell commenced trading, they pulled out their airhorns.

That day, nobody inside the exchange heard the ringing of the opening bell. If those on the trading floor didn’t immediately understand the demonstration’s purpose, it soon became clear. Fake ten-, twenty- and hundred-dollar bills began raining over the floor. The back of each denomination respectively read,

'White Heterosexual Men Can’t Get AIDS… DON’T BANK ON IT. WHY ARE WE HERE?

Because your malignant neglect KILLS. FUCK YOUR PROFITEERING. People are dying while you play business.'

Though ACT UP identified the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome as a target, and organized the demonstration itself, Gran Fury supplied much of the action’s messaging, and ACT UP’s successes often relied upon the sloganeering of Gran Fury’s posters, stickers, T-shirts, pins and billboards. The stock exchange demonstration also shows the effectiveness of these combined efforts. Just days later, Burroughs Wellcome reduced AZT’s price by 20 percent."

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How Aids Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic, Jack Lowery

On September 14, 1989, ACT UP led a noon rally of 350 people in front of the New York Stock Exchange, again targeting Burroughs Wellcome and other companies. The demonstration was planned to coincide with those held in San Francisco and London that day.

ACT UP Demonstrations on Wall Street

#aids #hiv #lgbtq #aids activism #act up #images #2022 books

[teneebris]

#dark academia #light academia #quotes #poetry #studyblr #writeblr #words #dark academia aesthetic #light academia aesthetic #books #bookish #bookblr #booklr #book quotes #writing #the anomaly #2022 books #academia #academic #mine #first page #zhuangzi #zhuangzi quotes #novel #french novel #dreaming quotes #pessimist quotes #cottagecore #chaotic academia #poems and quotes

[mylifeinfiction]

TMNT: The Last Ronin by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird & Tom Waltz

"There are people, creatures, teachers, warriors, heroes, and legends..."

So there I am, 38-years-old, crying over a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book. Yikes.

But hey, who can really blame me? I've loved these characters for damn-near the entirety of my 38 years. And hell, at six, I didn't just want to be like Michelangelo, I straight-up wanted to be Michelangelo. So to get to experience a send-off for these characters that's as emotionally fine-tuned and executed as The Last Ronin was a bittersweet treat. Furthermore, the action is chaotic fun despite a slightly underwhelming villain, and the artwork is immersive, bringing this futuristic look at the TMNT universe to life with ample grit. It's not quite perfect, but its closer than I'd ever thought I'd get to experience.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need more, so it's time for The Last Ronin - Lost Years .

9/10

-Timothy Patrick Boyer.

#booklr #graphic novels #teenage mutant ninja turtles #the last ronin #comic books #book review #comic book review #graphic novel review #books #fiction #book reviews #reading #readers of tumblr #new books #2022 books

[contracat25]

It is finally September which means hopefully cooler weather, fun fall clothing (sweaters my love), seasonal adventures aaaand of course NEW BOOKS! Admittedly the fact that we are finally getting Nona has me just.... vibrating out of my skin. Like no joke I'm barely keeping it together. Buuuuut there are a handful of other books that I'm pretty stoked about. As always, this list doesn't include sequels (I have a different set of lists for those), but without further ado, some of the books I am most excited about coming out this month!

The Sunbearer Trails by Aiden Thomas

The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore

Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans

#booklr #queer books #2022 books #2022 releases #upcoming releases #upcoming books #queer sff #queer historical fiction #the sunbearer trials #aiden thomas #the genesis of misery #neon yang #Self-made boys #Anna-marie McLemore #Notorious sorcerer #Davinia Evans #september 2022 books #september 2022 releases #ya books #adult books

[literarymessy]

"You broke it!" she screamed. "You broke me!"

"You were already broken!" yelled Frank.

"Not like this."

Cleopatra and Frankestein, Coco Mellors.

#cleopatra and frankenstein #writers and poets #writing #aesthetic #art #book blog #book qoute #book quotes #books #literary #literature #2022 reads #2022 books #literary fiction #being in your 20s #toxic attraction #american literature #artists #painting #depression #suicide #suicidalcharacters #dark aesthetic #narcissim #20s character #life in your 20s #artists deserve better #cleoandfrank #frankandcleo #coco mellors