What I Read in 2022
In 2021 I really tried to start focusing more on reading. I didn’t do a great job keeping up with my 2021 reads, but I did better this year. I’ve not done as much of it as I’d have liked, but putting this list together helped me realize I’m doing better than I thought.
Here’s the list! I’ve roughly sorted it by category.
- The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
- A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, Hank Green
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Hank Green
- Turtles All the Way Down, John Green
- Paper Towns, John Green
- An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code, Michael Feathers
- Clean Architecture, Bob Martin
- Domain Driven Design Distilled, Vaughn Vernon
- Visualizing Google Cloud, Priyanka Vergadia
- Code That Fits in Your Head, Mark Seeman
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat Samin Nosrat
- Food Lab, J Kenji Lopez-Alt
- Maus, Art Spiegelman
- Watchmen, Alan Moore, David Gibbons
- The Sandman, Neil Gaiman
Starting on The Wheel of Time series is daunting, there’s 13 books to go. I’m not in any real rush though. I loved The Eye of the World as an introduction to the series. I can’t remember the last time I was angry that I had obligations like work and eating to get in the way of my reading.
I got through everything I hadn’t read by John Green, and went ahead and read his brother’s books as well. Solid hits all around. Reading John Green just puts me in a better mood.
I’ve been part of a book club at work where we’re trying to read some software-oriented books, and I have to say it’s been great! Seeman’s Code That Fits in Your Head stands out as a really good book that I’m going to start recommending to people.
I decided to read more comic books and visual novels this year. I finally got around to Maus and Watchmen, which have been on my to-read list since college. I was really surprised how much I enjoyed Watchmen, the art alone would have been worth the read. The Sandman was a big surprise, I watched it on Netflix and decided I wanted to get the OG material and ended up reading through all of it as quick as I could.
Looking back at the list I’d feel great if next year I was able to match this. If the rest of The Wheel of Time series is as good as the first book it won’t be much a problem at all. I’d also really like to work through the rest of Neil Gaiman’s work.