My Year in Books and 2022 Wrapups

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We're getting down to the wire, so here's one big long wrap-up post for 2022:

Using only books you have read this year (2022), answer these prompts. Try not to repeat a book title…

(Links in the titles will take you to my reviews where they exist)

My kid assures me that this is a good meme for the
Gen Z students I want to appeal to at work.

Becky at Becky's Book Reviews Chunkster Challenge: 3

Not near as much as I'd hoped!

  1. The Third Reich at War, by Richard P. Evans
  2. Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
  3. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles MacKay


Karen K at Books and Chocolate's Classics Challenge: 12/12

  1.   A 19th Century Classic -- Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens 
  2.   A 20th Century Classic --  "We Never Make Mistakes," by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  3.   A Classic by a Woman Author.  -- The Lost Island, by Eilis Dillon
  4.   A Classic in Translation.--  The Chess Set in the Mirror, by Massimo Bontempelli
  5.   A Classic by a Person of Color. -- Suns of Independence, by Ahmadou Kourouma
  6.   Mystery/Detective/Crime Classic. -- The Honjin Murders, by Seishi Yokomoto
  7.   A Classic Short Story Collection. --The Eternal Husband and Other Stories, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  8.   Pre-1800 Classic. --  The Female Quixote, by Charlotte Lennox
  9.   A Nonfiction Classic. --  Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles McKay
  10.  Classic Set in a Place You'd Like to Visit. -- The Treasure Chest, by Johann Peter Hebel
  11.  Classic That's Been on Your TBR List the Longest. --  The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis
  12.  Wild Card Classic. -- Quicksand, by Nella Larsen

 Erica at The Broken Spine's Classics Challenge: 8/12

Erica has moved to mostly making videos and I think is also on that Story Graph site that I forgot about.  Either way, here's my list -- not as complete as I wanted: 

  1. Read a classic by an Indigenous author
  2. Read an LGBTQIA2+ classic: oh hey I read Hans Christian Andersen's "Snow Queen" the other day...
  3. Read a classic by a BIPOC author with a BIPOC main character: Suns of Independence, by Ahmadou Kourouma
  4. Read a translated classic:  The Chess Set in the Mirror, by Massimo Bontempelli
  5. Read a classic by a new to you author: "We Never Make Mistakes," by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  6. A classic that has been adapted (Page to Screen) Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
  7. Read a classic written by a woman The Lost Island, by Eilis Dillon
  8. Read a classic nonfiction: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles McKay
  9. Read a classic on your shelf the longest: The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis
  10. Read a classic with a one-word title
  11. Read a classic written during the Harlem Renaissance: Quicksand, by Nella Larsen
  12. Read a classic by a West Asian author

 

Adam at Roof Beam Reader's TBR Challenge: 12/12  

I forgot which ones were alternates, but anyway, I did twelve!

  1. The Eternal Husband and other stories, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  2. Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
  3. The High Book of the Grail (Perlesvaus), ed. Nigel Bryant
  4. We Never Make Mistakes, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  5. A Word From Wormingford, by Ronald Blythe
  6. Needle and Thread: A Tale of Survival from Bialystok to Paris, by Charles Zabuski
  7. The Leaky Establishment, by David Langford
  8. Mink River, by Brian Doyle
  9. Magic Mirrors, by John Bellairs
  10. Model Children, by Paul Thorez
  11. Caldecott & Co., by Maurice Sendak
  12. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles McKay
  1. The Druids, by Peter Berresford Ellis 
  2. Mysteries of the Middle Ages, by Thomas Cahill

 

I just like this cover.

Bev's Mount TBR Challenge: 41/24

I signed up for 24 as usual but tried to get further.  Success!

  1. Samguk Yusa, by Ilyon
  2. The Runaway Robot, by Lester Del Rey 
  3. The Trouble With Tycho, by Clifford Simak
  4. Goblin Reservation, by Clifford Simak 
  5. Alpha 2, ed. Robert Silverberg
  6. Caldecott & Co., by Maurice Sendak
  7. Magic Mirrors, by John Bellairs 
  8. The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis
  9. Three Apples Fell From the Sky, by Narine Abgaryan
  10. The Eternal Husband and Other Stories, by Dostoevsky
  11.  Lost Solace, by Karl Drinkwater
  12. The Leaky Establishment, by David Langford
  13. False Value, by Ben Aaronovitch 
  14. The Lost Garden, by Helen Hunphries 
  15. We Never Make Mistakes, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 
  16.  Momo, by Michael Ende
  17. Needle and Thread, by Charles Zabuski 
  18. Model Children, by Paul Thorez
  19. The Treasure Chest, by Johann Peter Hebel
  20. The Chess Set in the Mirror, by Massimo Bontempelli
  21. The Honjin Murders, by Seishi Yokomizo
  22. The Brothers Lionheart, by Astrid Lindgren
  23. The Dechronization of Sam Magruder, by George Gaylord Simpson
  24. This is How You Lose the Time War by by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone 
  25. The Lost Island, by Eilis Dillon
  26. All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders
  27. Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
  28. A Fatal Grace, by Louise Penny
  29. Word From Wormingford, by Robert Blythe
  30. The Druids, by Peter Berresford Ellis
  31. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles MacKay
  32. The Box of Delights, by John Masefield
  33. The Prince of Morning Bells, by Nancy Kress
  34. Death Rat!, by Mike Nelson
  35. The White People, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  36. Amongst Our Weapons, by Ben Aaronovitch
  37. The Incredible Honeymoon, by E. Nesbit
  38. The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham
  39. The Gate of Horn, by G. R. Levy
  40. Mink River, by Brian Doyle
  41. The Monkey's Wedding, by Joan Aiken

 

Bev's Virtual Mount TBR Challenge: 25/24

  1. Learning From the Germans, by Susan Neiman
  2. Celestial Bodies, by Jokha Alharthi
  3. Suns of Independence, by Ahmadou Kourouma
  4. The Third Reich at War, by Richard P. Evans
  5. Cathedral of Mist, by Paul Willem
  6. Tunnels, by Rutu Modan 
  7.  House of Glass, by Toer
  8.  Woke Racism, by John McWhorter
  9. Goblin, by Josh Malerman
  10. Threads of Life, by Clare Hunter
  11. No One is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood
  12. Honeycomb, by Joanne M. Harris
  13. San Fransicko, by Michael Shellenberger
  14. Pillars of Salt, by Fadia Faqir
  15. Black Water Sister, by Zen Cho
  16. Rethinking Sex, by Catherine Emra
  17. Quicksand, by Nella Larsen
  18. Silence of the White City, by Eva Garcia Saenz
  19. Nettle & Bone, by T. Kingfisher
  20. Burmese Moons, by Sophie Ansel and Sam Garcia
  21. The Gray Earth, the Galsan Tschinag
  22. Salvaged, by Madeleine Roux
  23. Reclaimed, by Madeleine Roux
  24. Read Dangerously, by Azar Nafisi
  25. The Lost Angel, by Elizabeth Goudge

 

A freshly organized bookshelf!



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