22 books I read & loved in 2022

[Some of] my favorite books of the year! I definitely have a couple of types...

Fiction & poetry:
1. The Latinist by Mark Prins (2022)
2. The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington (1975)
3. The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen (1938)
4. The Door by Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1987)
5. Strangers I Know by Claudia Durastanti (trans. Elizabeth Harris) (2022)
6. Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (trans. Daisy Rockwell) (2021)
7. Tar Baby by Toni Morrison (1981)
8. Boulder by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanchez) (2020)
9. Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (1990)
10. A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt (2022)
11. Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works by John Ashbery (2022)

Nonfiction:
1. Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (2018)
2. Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez (2011)
3. Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image by Laura Mulvey (2006)
4. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing (2020)
5. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (1955)
6. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark (2020)
7. Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon (2020)
8. Limbo by Dan Fox (2018)
9. The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner (2021)
10. Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri (2022)
11. How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo (2022)

Socials:
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[TheGerbita]

Taking notes 📝 😅 I will be forever grateful to you for recommending The Hearing Trumpet - I adore that book! the Door is also one of my top reads of 2022.

[alsopato]

yr list has more nonfiction than i read all year x__x and the fiction was still thinky idk how you do it haha, death 24x sounds interesting though! i’ll call on you for nonfiction advice if i’m ever feeling brave enough - cheers to ‘23 im grateful for the online friendship :)

[NerdyNurseReads]

I love this list! NYRB has me in a chokehold. Their titles are so intriguing.

[nathansnook]

love love love that you read plenty of art crit this year. had no idea that Mulvey coined such an iconic term! will need to read her work!

[SpringboardThought]

Ooo loved this. Favourite time of booktube for me, all the top lists! So happy Tomb of Sand made it. Gosh, that was so good.

[literaryiggy]

I love the way you talk about books :') hoping to get through some of these soon!!!!

[seesararead]

Boulder and Lucy! Two faves for me as well. Looking forward to getting to a few others on this list this year. :)

[julie.k]

thank you for so many intriguing recs!! instantly putting Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon on my tbr:) a new favorite that I've recently read is Transactions in a Foreign Currency by Deborah Eisenberg, her writing style is too good <3

[MatthewSciarappa]

What an absolutely blissfully brilliant list 🥰🥰🥰

[SunshineJournals]

I loved Boulder and Permafrost so much! I started The Hearing Trumpet in November, im in the part where they're patting their head and rubbing their bellies 🤣 it's weird in the best way. Her major arcana tarot cards come out in march!!!! The door is on my shelf, I didn't know it was about 2 women in love 🥺😭💕 im prioritizing it now. Loved this video and your outfit and cool hair, happy new year!!!!

[alattemorning]

After reading The Door I wanna read the rest of Szabo's translated work 'cause her stories always stay with me. I just read Lucy this month and wow is it gonna stay with me too!

[kiranreader]

love it! i really need to read red comet asap!!

[carlacarinreads]

As I‘m going through my favourites of 2022 I think The Hearing Trumpet is actually my nr 1😊