@lifblogs asked me a few days ago if I was gonna share the list of books I read this year. So, I'm gonna do that.
Due to character limits, I had to separate the numbered lists, so first list goes up to 100 and then the second list is the rest.
Couple of notes, my list includes the date I finished reading and a couple of marks.
Their meanings:
Started in 2022: *
This book is a reread: **
Did not write down the date but probably the date: *? (Basically I decided after I had started to include the date finished.)
Special notation for Dracula and Dracula Daily: **!
Bold denotes favorites.
Eight Kinky Nights: An f/f Chanukah romance by Xan West* – Jan 1*?
Through the Moon: A Graphic Novel (The Dragon Prince Graphic Novel #1) by Peter Wartman – Jan 4
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings – Jan 7
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte – Jan 12
A Brother’s Price by Wen Spencer** - Jan 13
Gossie and Gertie by Olivier Dunrea – Jan 17
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Andrew H. Knoll – Jan 18
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler – Jan 22
Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds by John Pickrell – Jan 25
Promised Land: a Revolutionary Romance by Rose Lerner – Jan 26
Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu – Jan 27
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr – Feb 2
Artemis by Andy Weir – Feb 4
Hunting Game by Helene Tursten – Feb 7
How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants by Joseph E. Armstrong – Feb 14
Fortuna by Kristyn Merbeth – Feb 16
After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez – Feb 22
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan – Feb 22
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond by Robin George Andrews – Feb 28
Memoria by Kristyn Merbeth – Feb 28
American Revolution: A History From Beginning to End by Hourly History – Mar 5
Discordia by Kristyn Merbeth – Mar 6
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley – Mar 17
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester – Mar 18
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen – Mar 18
Big Chicas Don't Cry by Annette Chavez Macias – Mar 19
Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth by Michael S. Engel – Mar 21
The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph J. Ellis – Mar 24
Eragon by Christopher Paolini – Mar 25
Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer – Mar 25
Locked in Time by Lois Duncan** – Mar 26
Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur – Mar 28
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict – April 4
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham – April 7
Bisexually Stuffed By Our Living Christmas Stocking by Chuck Tingle – April 8
Bloodmoon Huntress: A Graphic Novel (The Dragon Prince Graphic Novel #2) by Nicole Andelfinger – April 9
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell – April 11
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton – April 13
The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis – April 17
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez – April 19
Cinder by Marissa Meyer – April 20
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson – April 20
Eldest by Christopher Paolini – April 22
The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan – April 23
The Sentient Lesbian Em Dash — My Favorite Punctuation Mark — Gets Me Off by Chuck Tingle – April 24
The Pleistocene Era: The History of the Ice Age and the Dawn of Modern Humans by Charles River Editors – April 26
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie – April 27
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach – April 29
Absolution by Murder by Peter Tremayne – May 3
Matrix by Lauren Groff – May 6
The Color Purple by Alice Walker – May 7
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie – May 9
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume – May 11
The Dragon Prince Book One: Moon by Aaron Ehasz and Melanie McGanney Ehasz – May 13
Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan – May 15
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez – May 15
Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover Intriguing Boundaries, Territories and Geographical Curiosities by Zoran Nikolic – May 20
How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America by John Dvorak – May 20
The Guncle by Steven Rowley – May 21
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini – May 24
Reflection: A Twisted Tale by Elizabeth Lim – May 26
Sailor's Delight by Rose Lerner – May 26
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black – May 28
Humans are Weird: I Have the Data by Betty Adams – June 3
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro – June 4
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer – June 8
Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut – June 9
A Tip for the Hangman by Allison Epstein – June 11
Cress by Marissa Meyer – June 20
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao – June 22
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte – June 24
After the Hurricane by Leah Franqui – June 24
Inheritance by Christopher Paolini – June 25
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez – June 26
Dark Room Etiquette by Robin Roe – June 30
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack – July 4
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire – July 5
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin – July 7
Cosmos by Carl Sagan – July 10
1984 by George Orwell** -- July 11
What Once Was Mine: A Twisted Tale by Liz Braswell – July 17
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't) by Alex Bezzerides – July 20
The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth Hardcover by Elizabeth Tasker – July 21
Witches by Brenda Lozano – July 24
Son of a Sailor: A Cozy Pirate Tale by Marshall J. Moore – July 29
Winter by Marissa Meyer – July 29
As Old As Time: A Twisted Tale by Liz Braswell – July 30
Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s by B. Dylan Hollis – August 4
Half Bad by Sally Green – August 7
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly – August 14
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley – August 18
Gory Details: Adventures From the Dark Side of Science by Erika Engelhaupt – August 22
The Last Karankawas by Kimberly Garza – August 25
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore – Sept 5
Oceans of Kansas, Second Edition: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea by Michael J. Everhart – Sept 7
Corpus Christi: The History of a Texas Seaport by Bill Walraven – Sept 9
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury** – Sept 12
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Sept 18
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera – Sept 20
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett – Sept 22
The Mammals of Texas by William B. Davis and David J. Schmidly – Sept 29
The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett – Oct 4
The 2024 Old Farmer’s Almanac edited by Janice Stillman – Oct 7
Half Wild by Sally Green – Oct 7
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James – Oct 7
Verity by Colleen Hoover – Oct 10
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence – Oct 15
Archaeology: Unearthing the Mysteries of the Past by Kate Santon – Oct 16
100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife by Ken Jennings – Oct 22
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie – Oct 22
Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe García McCall – Oct 22
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie – Oct 27
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler – Oct 28
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard – Oct 29
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Sarah Schulman – Oct 31
The Great Texas Dragon Race by Kacy Ritter – Nov 6
Dracula by Bram Stoker**! – Nov 7/8
The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser – Nov 9
Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America by Jerry Thompson – Nov 10
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison – Nov 11
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney – Nov 13
Untamed by Glennon Doyle – Nov 14
Nimona by ND Stevenson – Nov 18
Dracula Daily by Matt Kirkland**! – Nov 20
A Mother Would Know by Amber Garza – Nov 24
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie – Nov 25
How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell** – Nov 27
Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie – Dec 1
Murtagh by Christopher Paolini – Dec 8
The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie – Dec 8
Icehenge by Kim Stanley Robinson – Dec 9
These Holiday Movies With Bizarrely Similar Smiling Heterosexual Couples Dressed In Green And Red On Their Cover Get Me Off Bisexually by Chuck Tingle – Dec 9
The Domesday Book: England's Heritage, Then & Now edited by Thomas Hindle – Dec 10
You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce – Dec 13
Himawari House by Harmony Becker – Dec 13
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck** – Dec 18
Born Into It: A Fan’s Life by Jay Baruchel – Dec 18
The Dragon Prince Book Two: Sky by Aaron Ehasz and Melanie McGanney Ehasz – Dec 23
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree – Dec 24
Half Lost by Sally Green – Dec 24
Understudies by Priya Sridhar – Dec 28
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir – Dec 28
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking – Dec 31
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Films Watched in November 2022
City of Fear | Irving Lerner | 1959
Suspect | John Boulting / Roy Boulting | 1960
The Criminal (AKA The Concrete Jungle) | Joseph Losey | 1960
The Sniper | Edward Dmytryk | 1952
Walk a Crooked Mile | Gordon Douglas | 1948
M | Joseph Losey | 1951
Little Red Monkey | Ken Hughes | 1955
Secret Ceremony | Joseph Losey | 1968
Dead Reckoning | John Cromwell | 1947
Stranger on the Third Floor | Boris Ingster | 1940
Walk East on Beacon! | Alfred L. Werker | 1952
The Face Behind the Mask | Robert Florey | 1941
Pushover | Richard Quine | 1954
In the Doghouse | Darcy Conyers | 1961
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Fritz Lang | 1956
The Sleeping Tiger | Joseph Losey | 1954
Kansas City Confidential | Phil Karlson | 1952
A Bullet Is Waiting | John Farrow | 1954
Here Before | Stacey Gregg | 2021
Know the Grass (Short) | Sophie Littman | 2021
Nightwatch | Ole Bornedal | 1997
Chicago Syndicate | Fred F. Sears | 1955
The Brothers Rico | Phil Karlson | 1957
Knock On Any Door | Nicholas Ray | 1949
Underworld Beauty | Seijun Suzuki | 1958
Tokyo Joe | Stuart Heisler | 1949
Storm Warning | Stuart Heisler | 1941
Sirocco | Curtis Bernhardt | 1951
The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | 1950
Deported | Robert Siodmak | 1950
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By | Harold French | 1952
Larceny | George Sherman | 1948
Abandoned | Joseph M. Newman | 1949
The Harder They Fall | Mark Robson | 1956
Lady on a Train | Charles David | 1945
Bold = Top Ten
Some notes: Noirvember, and as usual I never go full Noir but I did watch mostly Noirs. Some good Noirs, some not so good Noirs, and a few “hmmm, I’m not really convinced these are Noirs” too. I mostly worked my way through the films I hadn’t watched from Indicator’s Noir box sets - with a couple of detours. Being very taken with Märta Torén in Sirocco led me to The Man Who Watched Trains Go By which I really enjoyed, and a Losey fest almost started but I got sidetracked...
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