Most of my reading in 2022 was audiobooks on long walks, mostly in Short Beach but also in rural Bavaria, France, Italy, Norway, and the other excellent places this eventful year took me. My grand total, according to Reading List, was 108 book. Most in a month was 13 in August. Least was 6 in April. Average was 9.
Here’s the list, with each month’s fav in bold.
January (9)
Paleofantasy. Marlene Zuk
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, Adam Rutherford
Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming, Karen Carr
The New Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan
Nature’s Mutiny, Phillip Bloom
Theory for the World to Come, Matthew Wolf-Mayer
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language, David Anthony
Pedagogy of the Depressed, Chris Schaberg
The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozecki
February (8)
Reality is not What It Seems, Carlo Robelli
Re-Enchanted, Maria Cecire
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozecki
Children of Prometheus, Greg Maertz
Until the End of Time, Brian Greene
Swim Poems, Joshua Dreser
The Pocket Epicurean, John Sellars
Football, Mark Yakich
March )10)
Footprints, David Farrier
Origin, Jennifer Raff
What is Life, Erwin Schrodinger
Time on Rock, Anna Fleming
The Sea is Not Made of Water, Adam Nicolson
The Red Prince, Timothy Snyder
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
The Counterforce, J.M. Tyne
Exile and Pride, Eli Claire
Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment, Kent Cartwright
April (6)
Thunder Go North, Melissa Darby
The Lieutenant Nun, Catalina de Erauso
Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez
The Anthropocene Unconscious, Mark Bould
On Tyranny Timothy Snyder (rev ed)
We’re Doomed, Now What, Roy Scranton
May (12)
Joy of the Worm, Drew Daniel
Birds, Beasts and Seas, Jeffrey Yang (ed)
Nonzero, Robert Wright
The Eiger Sanction, Trevanian
The Loo Sanction, Trevanian
Shibumi, Trevanian
History 4 Degrees C, Ian Baucom
Thinking Like an Economist, Elizabeth Berman
The Geography of Risk, Gilbert Gaul
The Wayfinders, Wade Davis
Elite Capture, Olufemi Taiwo
Magdalena, Wade Davis
June (9)
Signs and Wonders, Delia Falconer
Mill Town, Kerri Arsenault
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World, Barry Lopez
Battling the Big Lie, Dan Pfeiffer
A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman, Lindy Elkins-Tanton
The Three Sustainabilities, Allan Stoekl
The Double Life of Bob Dylan, Clinton Heylin
Welcome to the Universe, Neil deGrasse Tyson
Anthropocene Islands, Jonathan Pugh
July (9)
Bob Dylan How the Songs Work, Timothy Hampton
Why We Did It, Tim miller
The Savage Detectives Reread, David Kurnick
The Displacements, Bruce Holsinger
Ecotone Climate Issue, David Gessner
The Spirit of Science Fiction, Roberto Bolono
Be Always Converting, Rob Sean Wilson
Fantomas v the Multinational Vampires, Julio Cortazar
Polynesia, 900-1600, Madi Williams
August (13)
Avidly Reads Poetry, Jacquelyn Ardam
Sea Room, Adam Nicolson
Round about the Earth, Joyce Chaplin
Hyperboreal, Joan N. Kane
Milk Black Carbon, Joan N. Kane
Gasoline Dreams, Simon Orpana
Quichotte, Salman Rushdie
The Swimmers, Julie Otsuka
Rescue Me, Margret Grebowicz
Gunfight, Ryan Busse
The Draw of the Sea, Wyl Menmuir
Ahab Unbound, Meredith Farmer & Jon Schroeder
Notebook for Seafarers, Alberto Coretti
September (9)
Dockside Reading, Isabel Hofmeyr
The Mermaid of Black Conch, Monique Roffey
Dark Traffic, Joan N Kane
People’s Power, Ashley Dawson
Fossil Capitol, Andreas Malm
Colonialism, Culture, Whales, Graham Huggan
How to Speak Whale, Tom Mustill
My Emily Dickinson, Susan Howe
After Moby-Dick, Elizabeth Shultz
October )8)
Where the Seals Sing, Susan Richardson
Water Always Wins, Erica Gies
Shallows, Tim Winton
Soundings, Doreen Cunningham
Origin Story, David Christian
Empire of Rubber, Gregg Mittman
Swim Poems, Steve Mentz
Water A Biography, Guilio Boccaletti
November (8)
Venice in the Anthropocene, Shaul Bassi
Planet B, Nicolas Bourriaud
The Philosophy of Modern Song, Bob Dylan
The Sea, Philip Hoare
Folk Music, Greil Marcus
City of Quartz, Mike Davis
Wild New World, Dan Flores
Where is My Flying Car? J Storrs Hall
December (7)
Messi v Renaldo, Jonathan Clegg
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The Doors, Greil Marcus
The Language of the Game, Laurent Dubois
When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
The Passion according to G.H. Clarice Lispector
Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths (audio)