Yazmine Lomax

If you miss Spotify Wrapped day (yes, As It Was was everyone’s top song this year), then I have a treat for you: my 2022 Reading Wrapped! Because I love a spreadsheet, I spent a day over the holidays inputting data about my reading this year into Google Sheets and pulled up a bunch of stats and graphs. Please enjoy it so I don’t feel like I wasted my time!

To begin, I read 100 books in 2022, the most books I’ve ever read in a single year, aside from maybe the year 2005 when I was on a mission to win a Walkman during the MS Readathon. It’s definitely the most I’ve read since 2018 when I started tracking my reading seriously. That year, I read 45 books. In 2019, I read 50 books; in 2020 it was 54 books, and in 2021 I read 57 books. 

I DNFed (Did Not Finish) 12 books this year. Because I’m a lovely person, I won’t be sharing the names of them (though one does begin with The Invisible Life and ends with of Addie LaRue). 

Of the ones I did finish, 92 books were fiction and 8 were non-fiction, primarily essay collections and memoirs. I’d like to read more non-fiction in 2023 so if you have any recommendations please let me know!

At 992 pages, Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas was the longest book I read this year. The Sixth Wedding by Elin Hilderbrand, a novella sequel to 28 Summers, was the shortest book at just 76 pages.

Speaking of Sarah J. Maas, she was my most-read author of 2022 with a total of 15 books. Elin Hilderbrand was a close-ish second with 10 books, while Alice Oseman came in third with 6 books. I also read 2 books by Sarah Hogle, Stephenie Meyer, Emily St. John Mandel, Hank Green, and Charlotte McConaghy.

Here’s a breakdown of my reading by format. I got a Kobo for my birthday in March and became a total convert so it’s no surprise e-books made up the majority of my reading for 2022. 

Genres are so hard to define and it’s almost impossible to categorize books by just one (Is my beloved Twilight a fantasy? A romance?) but I did my best to assign each book I read this year with a single genre tag (including ones you won’t find in a bookstore, like “holiday”) and Google Sheets gave me this graph:

With all the Sarah J. Maas I read this year, it makes sense that fantasy was my most-read genre of 2022. I haven’t been much of a fantasy reader since I devoured The Mortal Instruments series in 2013 (Does anyone else remember the Lily Collins/Jamie Campbell Bower movie adaptation? Their on-off relationship after he broke off his engagement with Bonnie Wright from Harry Potter?) But I can safely say Sarah and her faeries hooked me this year. 

Note: If the term “contemporary” sounds a little vague to you, that’s because it is. I used it as a catch-all for fun and modern books that are centered on self-discovery, career, and platonic relationships rather than romance. 

Before I share the full list of books I read in 2022, allow me a moment to reflect on my year of reading in less quantitative terms. In short, I was truly head over heels for reading this year, and I’m extremely proud of inhaling 100 books in 365 days. In long, I was truly head over heels for reading this year, and I’m extremely proud of inhaling 100 books in 365 days BUT I don’t feel the need to do the same next year. In part, this is because I want to make more time for other hobbies in, like crocheting a temperature blanket and playing my Gameboy Advance I got for Christmas in 2004. But in 2023, I also want to spend more time with less books. Of the 100 books I read in 2022, I’d estimate that I actively disliked more than 20 of them, and found another 30 or so just fine. I don’t regret pushing through these books at all (they helped me hone my taste!) but in 2023, I plan to be a lot more selective so I can really savor the ones I adore.

And so, without further ado, here’s a list of every single book I read this year sorted alphabetically by the author’s first name because that’s what Google Sheets did when I clicked ‘sort’!

1. The Murder of Rodger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
2. The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
3. Rock, Paper, Scissors by Alice Feeney
4. This Winter by Alice Oseman
5. Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman 
6. Heartstopper Volume 2 by Alice Oseman
7. Heartstopper Volume 3 by Alice Oseman
8. Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman
9. Loveless by Alice Oseman 
10. Aesthetica by Allie Rowbottom 
11. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
12. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
13. The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
14. The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary
15. Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
16. I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
17. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
18. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
19. Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
20. The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren 
21. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
22. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
23. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
24. The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
25. 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand 
26. The Sixth Wedding by Elin Hilderbrand
27. The Beach Club by Elin Hilderbrand
28. The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand
29. Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand
30. Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
31. Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand
32. Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand
33. Winter Storms by Elin Hilderbrand
34. Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand
35. Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
36. The Club by Ellery Lloyd
37. Book Lovers by Emily Henry
38. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
39. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
40. Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie 
41. Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born by Evan Ross Katz
42. Lease on Love by Falon Ballard
43. If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
44. Live, Laugh, Kidnap by Gabby Noone
45. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
46. Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
47. The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
48. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
49. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
50. A Hundred Other Girls by Imran Hariri-Ka
51. Drunk in Love by Jasmine Guillory
52. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
53. Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
54. The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith
55. Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
56. Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto
57. Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q Sutanto
58. Open Book by Jessica Simpson 
59. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
60. Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
61. The Selection by Kiera Cass
62. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
63. Reputation by Lex Croucher
64. Balanced on the Blade’s Edge by Lindsay Buroker
65. Severance by Ling Ma
66. Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen 
67. Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
68. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
69. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
70. Arsenic & Adobo by Mia P Manansala
71. The Paper Palace by Miranda Crowley Heller
72. Hey Natalie Jean by Natalie Holbrook
73. Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
74. Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
75. The Idea of You by Robin Lee
76. Aisling and the City by Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght
77. Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle
78. Just Like Magic by Sarah Hogle
79. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
80. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
81. A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
82. A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
83. A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
84. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
85. House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
86. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
87. Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
88. Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
89. Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
90. Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
91. Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
92. Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
93. The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas
94. Year Book by Seth Rogen
95. Filter This by Sophie White
96. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
97. The Short Second Life of Stephenie Meyer
98. The Guncle by Steven Rowley
99. Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
100. The Arc by Tory Henwood Hoen