2022 reading list

This was a very busy year for me and my writing, but grateful for all the time I spent reading and then reading some more. It was novel to read a novel outside my own four walls and even home country. From travel reads, to bedtime books, to lunchtime poems, to library picks, here are my top twelve books old and new that got me through these twelve months (I struggled to whittle down to ten).

• All Down Darkness Wide – Seán Hewitt (read my thoughts in The Skinny)
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Young Mungo – Douglas Stuart
• The Nerves and Their Endings – Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
• There Are More Things – Yara Rodrigues Fowler (read my thoughts in The Skinny)
• Some Integrity – Padraig Regan
• England’s Green – Zaffar Kunial
• Letters Home – Jennifer Wong
• Hourglass – Keiran Goddard
• Assembly – Natasha Brown
• Another Country – James Baldwin
• Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood

Here is everything I read in 2022:

1. Poems selected by Alan Hollinghurst – A.E. Housman
2. Second Place – Rachel Cusk
3. Some Integrity – Padraig Regan
4. New Skin for the Old Ceremony – Arun Sood
5. Winter Trees – Sylvia Plath
6. The Tempest – William Shakespeare
7. Nevada – Imogen Binnie
8. Physical – Andrew McMillan
9. The Last Days of Terranova – Manuel Rivas
10. The Arena of the Unwell – Liam Konemann
11. There Is (Still) Love Here – Dean Atta
12. These Bodies of Water – Sabrina Mahfouz
13. In Search of Equilibrium – Theresa Lola
14. England’s Green – Zaffar Kunial
15. Another Country – James Baldwin
16. Selected Poems – T.S. Eliot
17. Hourglass – Keiran Goddard
18. All Down Darkness Wide – Seán Hewitt
19. Sterling Karat Gold – Isabel Waidner
20. Why I’m Like Tequila – Lupe Mendez
21. Carrie Kills A Man – Carrie Marshall
22. The Pharmacist – Rachelle Atalla
23. The Giant Dark – Sarvat Hasin
24. Bolla – Pajtim Statovci
25. Like A Tree, Walking – Vahni Capildeo
26. Standing Heavy – GauZ
27. The Nerves and Their Endings – Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
28. X – Davey Davis
29. Libertie – Kaitlyn Greenidge
30. Another Way to Split Water – Alycia Pirmohamed
31. Tiepolo Blue – James Cahill
32. Boy Friends – Michael Pedersen
33. How to Make a Basket – Jazz Money
34. Assembly – Natasha Brown
35. Dancer from the Dance – Andrew Holleran
36. We Move – Gurnaik Johal
37. Quiet – Victoria Adukwei Bulley 
38. Slum Virgin – Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
39. An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life – Paul Dalla Rosa
40. Dark Neighbourhood – Vanessa Onwuemezi
41. Elena Knows – Claudia Piñeiro
42. Just By Looking at Him – Ryan O’Connell
43. Anoche Cuando Dormía – Antonio Machado
44. No Man’s Land – Anne East
45. from murky waters, we rise – Etzali Hernández
46. Lions and Shadows – Christopher Isherwood
47. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
48. Fishing In The Aftermath – Salena Godden
49. Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors – Aravind Jayan
50. Meditación Fronteriza – Norma Elia Cantú
51. Gingerbread – Helen Oyeyemi
52. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
53. Bang – Daniel Peña
54. More Fiyah – edited by Kayo Chingonyi
55. Rattlesnake Allegory – Joe Jiménez
56. There Are More Things – Yara Rodrigues Fowler
57. Aristotle and Dante Dive Into The Waters of The World – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
58. Christopher and His Kind – Christopher Isherwood
59. All The Names Given – Raymond Antrobus
60. Kismet – Jennifer Lee Tsai
61. Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head – Warsan Shire
62. The Sunlight Pilgrims – Jenni Fagan
63. The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro
64. This Fruiting Body – Caleb Parkin
65. Selah – Keith Jarrett
66. Peaces – Helen Oyeyemi
67. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
68. Honorifics – Cynthia Miller
69. Blood Salt Spring – Hannah Lavery
70. Tender – Ariana Harwicz
71. Loose Woman – Sandra Cisneros
72. Nudes – Elle Nash
73. Limbic – Peter Scalpello
74. Young Mungo – Douglas Stuart
75. Letters Home – Jennifer Wong
76. Brickmakers – Selva Almada
77. After the Formalities – Anthony Anaxagorou
78. An Eye for An Eye for An Eye – Ellen Renton
79. Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
80. Mrs Death Misses Death – Salena Godden
81. Wake me when I’m gone – Odafe Atogun
82. Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
83. Cosmogramma – Courttia Newland
84. Mona – Pola Oloixarac
85. Meanwhile – Cynthia Rodriguez
86. Black Lion – Sicelo Mbatha