2022: Books Read

Non-Fiction

Media and Technology

  1. Brian Christian - The Alignment Problem
  2. Tim Wu - The Attention Problem: The Epic Struggle To Get Inside Our Heads

Politics, Current Affairs, and World Affairs

  1. Erik Larson - The Splendid and the Vile
  2. Marina Hyde - What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times

Essays

  1. Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
  2. Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me

Memoirs, Biographies, and Autobiographies

  1. Matthew Perry - Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir
  2. Jennette McCurdy - I'm Glad My Mom Died
  3. John Cho - Troublemaker

Self-Help

  1. Sönke Ahrens - How to take Smart Notes

Graphic Novels

  1. Art Spiegelman - Maus 1 & 2

Fiction

Contemporary

  1. Elif Shafak - The Island of Missing Trees
  2. Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven
  3. Emily St. John Mandel - The Glass Hotel
  4. Julian Barnes - Elizabeth Finch
  5. Ruth Ozeki - My Year of Meats
  6. Elif Batuman - The Idiot (did-not-finish, god knows I tried)

Sci-Fi and Fantasy

  1. Becky Chambers - A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot 1) (audiobook)
  2. Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven
  3. Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary (audiobook)
  4. Christopher Priest - The Prestige

Children's Books / Young Adult

  1. E. Nesbit - The Enchanted Castle (audiobook)
  2. Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables (audiobook)
  3. John Cho - Troublemaker (audiobook)
  4. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (audiobook)
  5. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (audiobook)
  6. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (audiobook)