I am a certified bookworm & read about 100 books a year across genres-- fictions, nonfiction, memoir and short stories. The following list is all the books I read in 2022 that really stood out to me and that I can't stop thinking about <3
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Nonfiction Books
Fiction Books
Poetry
Memoir
Short Stories
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Nonfiction Books
On textile waste & curbing your consumerism
Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism a book by Aja Barber
Research on the language of cults
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism a book by Amanda Montell
On how to make radical change while practicing radical love
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good a book by Adrienne Maree Brown
Fiction Books
a professor develops an obsession for a younger colleague in the wake of her husband's affair scandal
Vladimir a book by Julia May Jonas
a single & celibate woman decides she wants to be a mother
Breasts and Eggs a book by Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, and David Boyd
sisters go to live with their estranged father after their mother is sent to a mental institution
The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish a book by Katya Apekina
a group of friends start a dinner club that spirals out of control
Supper Club a book by Lara Williams
a couple develops an unhealthy obsession with a former coworker
A Touch of Jen a book by Beth Morgan
a group of friends is haunted by their past-- the ghost of deer they once hunted
The Only Good Indians a book by Stephen Graham Jones
a not love love story on obsessive & dangerous love
Acts of Desperation a book by Megan Nolan
lesbian vigilantes fight racist monsters
Ring Shout a book by P. Djèlí Clark
an exchange student in london moves into a shared house & the house takes on (literally) a life of its own
Paradise Rot a book by Jenny Hval and Marjam Idriss
roommates meet studying abroad in Berlin & develop a toxic and dangerous relationship as they run a secret nightclub out of their apartment
Other People's Clothes a book by Calla Henkel
The story of a Native American family in Ohio-- SO GOOD
Betty a book by Tiffany McDaniel
a woman takes a solo trip & develops an unhealthy interest in a young mother and her daughter
The Lost Daughter a book by Elena Ferrante and Ann Goldstein
cousins create a fantasy world to escape their trauma
Earthlings a book by Sayaka Murata and Ginny Tapley Takemori
a middle age mother navigates the pandemic, as told through prophecy
Delphi a book by Clare Pollard
two friends survive a broke summer in NYC with nothing but charm and delusion
Happy Hour a book by Marlowe Granados
Sula returns home after years away
Sula a book by Toni Morrison
Breakout debut author-- stunning!
Open Water a book by Caleb Azumah Nelson
an unfulfilled housewife becomes a dog at night
Nightbitch a book by Rachel Yoder
Poetry
Collection of poetry from the immigrant perspective
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems a book by Warsan Shire
Memoir
Ashley C. Ford stunning debut memoir
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir a book by Ashley C Ford
Memoir on surviving an abusive relationship told through the metaphor of a house
In the Dream House: A Memoir a book by Carmen Maria Machado
Tove Ditlevsen memoir-- she is messy!
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency a book by Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally, and Michael Favala Goldman
Short Stories
Queer, funny, wacky & smart short story collection
Sarahland a book by Sam Cohen
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a bartender and freelance photographer has a dark streak
Boy Parts a book by Eliza Clark
A food critic has a unique appetite for her former boyfriends
A Certain Hunger a book by Chelsea G Summers
A world where cannibalism is legal
Tender Is the Flesh a book by Agustina Bazterrica and Sarah Moses
after her wife is lost underwater for several months, a woman must navigate her return home
Our Wives Under the Sea a book by Julia Armfield
A man starts an intense love affair in Paris with a man named Giovanni-- a queer classic
