2022, My Year In Books

By the time the year ends, I will have finished 60 books. You can see all the books here on my Goodreads Reading Challenge. That’s the most books I’ve ever read in a year. I started the year with my usual goal of 20 (I usually read about 28, but this is supposed to be a fun challenge, so I set the bar low), but when I hit that goal a few months into the year, I doubled my goal to 40. I didn’t bother updating the goal again when I broke that.

The next closest was when I read 53 books in 2012. That was the year we lived in London and all that time on the Tube and on trains added up to a lot of books read. There’s some key differences between 2012 and this year. In 2012, I read physical or Kindle versions of all of those books. I didn’t listen to any audio books. This year, most of my books were audio books. In 2012 all the books I read were first time books. This year, I re-read a lot of books I previously read. I almost never re-read books. There’s so many books I want to read, I never felt like I had the time to go back and re-read books. Listening to books, makes revisiting some old favorites an easier option.

Since my last post a month ago where I said I was going to be posting more, I haven’t done that, so I thought doing some book reviews over the next few days/weeks would be a good way to do that. Don’t worry, I won’t post about all 60 books, but I’ll hit some of the highlights.