I read 39 books in 2022. That’s a bit short of my goal, but I read a pretty wide range of non-fiction books. I’m posting my five favorites along with my entire list as I get a lot of ideas about books I want to read from the recommendations of others. Please feel free to suggest your favorites. Happy reading in 2023.
Dave’s Favorite Five Books Read In 2022
with links to my summaries of the books
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America – Maggie Haberman
Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP – Mirin Fadeer
Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Wanted – Jeremy Peters
The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear In The Cyber Age – David Sanger
When Brains Dream – Antonio Zadra & Robert Stickold
Dave’s Reading List – 2022
| 39 | books read in 2022 | |
| 13567 | pages read | |
| 348 | average book length | |
| A Fullness of Uncertain Significance: Stories of Surgery, Clarity, & Grace | Bruce Campbell |
| Apollo’s Arrow: Th Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live | Nicholas Christakis |
| Atomic Habits | James Clear |
| BBC World Service: Overseas Broadcasting 1932-2018 | Grodon Johnston |
| Blue Fire | John Gilstrap |
| Building A Second Brain: A Proven Method To Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential | Tiago Forte |
| Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America | Maggie Haberman |
| Cuba: An American History | Ada Ferrer |
| Draft No. 4: On The Writing Process | John McPhee |
| Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Our Bodies Work (Or Don’t) | Alex Bezzerides |
| Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management For Mortals | Oliver Burkeman |
| Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law | Mary Roach |
| Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP | Mirin Fadeer |
| How To Read A Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading | Mortimer Adler & Charles Van Doren |
| How To Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question | Michael Schur |
| Images of America: Chicago’s WLS Radio | Scott Childers |
| Immune: A Journey Into The Myusterious System That Keeps You Alive | hillip Dettmer |
| Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Wanted | Jeremy Peters |
| More Than Words: A Memoir of A Writing Life | Jerry Apps |
| Off The Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Believe Anything | Kelly Weill |
| On Writing | Stephen King |
| Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo | Teasel Muir-Harmony |
| Organic Gardening – The Natural No Dig Way | Charles Dowding |
| Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (Geopolitics in the 21st Century) | Hill & Gaddy |
| Renegades: Born In The USA | Barack Obama & Bruce Springsteen |
| Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America And Produced Trump | Spencer Ackerman |
| Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction | Brad Inwood |
| Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores The Power and Potential of Our Lives | Daniel Levitin |
| The BBC: A Century On Air | David Hendy |
| The Compendium of (Not Quite Everything): All the Facts you didn’t Know You Wanted To Know) | onn Elledge |
| The Effective Executive | Peter F. Drucker |
| The Lady Whose Mouth I Set On Fire | Dr McAnonymous |
| The Philosophy of Modern Song | Bob Dylan |
| The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear In The Cyber Age | David Sanger |
| The Secret World Of Sleep: The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest | Penelope A. Lewis |
| The Writing Life | Annie Dillard |
| This Is the Voice | John Colapinto |
| This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle For America’s Future | Jonathan Mrartin & Alexander Burns |
| When Brains Dream | Antonio Zadra & Robert Stickold |
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