Books I read in 2022
JanuaryIan Cobain Anatomy of a Killing (Ireland)Felix Frances CrisisAlexander McCall Smith The Joy and Light Bus CompanyBrian McGilloway The Last CrossingDiana Gabaldon Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone (sound file)Hilma Wolitzer Today a Woman went Mad in the SupermarketLouise Erdrich The Sentence, Story of a WomanAlan Furst Under Occupation, a NovelFebruaryJessica Brody Save the Cat Writes a NovelAndrea Camilleri RiccardinoAli Smith WinterElly Griffiths The Midnight HourWilliam Shaw She’s Leaving HomeElly Griffiths The Blood CardWilliam Shaw Play with FireAli Smith Summer MarchRichard Osman The Thursday Murder Club (excellent!)Andrew Miller The Slowworm’s SongLouise Penny The Madness of CrowdsAlexander McCall Smith How to Raise an Elephant (CD)Vaseem Khan The Dying DayDawson Church Mind to MatterRobert Holden LoveabilityCharles Mackay Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds AprilAli Smith AutumnSarah Watters Fingersmith (sound file)Jacqueline Winspear A Sunlit WeaponRichard Osman The Man Who Died Twice (sound file)Iona Whishaw Framed in FireLucy Caldwell These DaysBessel van der Kolk The Body Keeps the Score (sound file) MayPamela McGarry The Unsuitable BrideJuneErich Fromm The Art of LovingAdrian McKinty The IslandOvidia Yu The Cannonball Tree MysteryLouise Kennedy TrespassesMick Herron Bad ActorsMaggie O’Farrell The Hand that First Held MineMaggie O’Farrell I Am, I Am, I Am JulyWilliam Sutcliffe The Gifted, the Talented, and Me (hilarious)William Sutcliffe OtherhoodAlexander McCall Smith In a Time of Distance (prose poems)Alexander McCall Smith Love in the Time of BertieDolores Redondo The Invisible GuardianEds Khan, Jakubowski The Perfect Crime (short stories)Sarah Polley Run Toward the DangerElly Griffiths The Postscript MurdersNadifa Mohamed The Fortune MenMary Paulson-Ellis The Inheritance of Solomon FarthingMalcolm Gladwell Talking to StrangersSusanna Kearsley The Vanished Days (sound file) AugustMary Stewart Touch Not the CatSam Knight The Premonitions BureauDaphne du Maurier Rebecca (sound file) not finishedElly Griffiths The Locked Room (sound file)Tara Moss The Ghosts of ParisTruman Capote In Cold Blood (not finished)Elly Griffiths Now You See ThemElly Griffiths The Vanishing Box (sound file)Elly Griffiths The Ghost Fields (sound file)Barbara Taylor Bradford A Woman of Substance (not finished)Kellye Garrett Like a Sister (sound file) SeptemberAlexander McCall Smith The Sweet Remnants of SummerSue Grafton B is for BurglarAlexander McCall Smith The Geography of Holding HandsRobert Galbraith The Ink Black Heart (sound file)Amor Towles The Lincoln Highway (CDs)Mo Mowlam Momentum OctoberEben Alexander Proof of HeavenPG Wodehouse Aunts are not GentlemenJoel Fuhrman The End of DietingDeborah Ellis One More MountainJohn Base and Prudence Emery Death at the SavoyBen Macintyre Double Cross (sound file)Donna Tartt The Secret HistoryJoan Galat Mortimer: Rat Race to SpaceAnne Perry A Darker RealityOvidia Yu The Paper Bark Tree November Kate Atkinson Shrines of Gaiety (sound file)Kerry Greenwood The Lady with the Gun Asks the QuestionsJoyce Goodwin Fragments: a Poetry MosaicSeamus Heaney Field Work (poetry)Amor Towles A Gentleman in Moscow (CDs)Anstey Harris The Museum of Forgotten MemoriesOvidia Yu The Mushroom Tree MysteryTim Freke Soul Story: Evolution and the Purpose of LifeMarion Keyes Making it up as I go AlongLinda Barghoorn Buffy Ste Marie (bio for kids)Richard Osman The Bullet that MissedThe Woman from Uruguay Pedro MairalClaire Keegan Small Things Like TheseDervla McTiernan The Murder RuleClaire McGowan The Vanishing Triangle: The Murdered Women Ireland Forgot DecemberClaire McGowan The Silent DeadClaire McGowan What You Did Ian Rankin A Heart full of HeadstonesBrian Doyle, Ed. A Sense of WonderMarian Keyes The Woman who Stole my Life (CDs)Claire McGowan Dead GroundChris Hammer Scrublands (sound file)Anne Perry A Christmas GatheringThe total of 101 was down by 21 books from the previous year. However, the good news is that I did a lot more writing.