Happy New Year, readers! Thank you to everyone who has stuck along with my blog these past few years. I’m looking forward to telling you all about new books and book adventures in 2023!

2022 was a wild year from me. I spent the first half of the year living in London and exploring Europe, and I spent the second half completing my final fall semester of college. With the new year comes graduation and the big adventures of the future. Regardless of where life takes me in 2023, I know I’ll always have literature.

This year I set my Goodreads goal to 25 books (as I do ever year). I ended up reading 70 books. No harm in overshooting that goal. I read a lot of books for college this year and a lot of them were absolutely fantastic. It’s funny to see what patters pop up in my reading habits. Study abroad definitely influenced my reading choices. For example, I read two books set in Scotland, five books set in Ireland this year, and 22 books set in England. My most read author of the year was Shakespeare (which can be attributed to the Shakespeare course I took in London where we read five plays). Shakespeare is followed by a three way tie of Emily Henry, Jane Austen, and Taylor Jenkins Reid, each coming in at three books each.

I discovered a love for so many new authors this year. After reading NW and On Beauty, I’m now on a mission to read every Zadie Smith book in existence. Maureen Johnson’s Truly Devious trilogy kept me on my living room couch for two days straight this summer while I burned through the riveting YA mystery. Mirion Malle’s graphic novel this is how i disappear made me cry at 4am in the Amsterdam airport and made me a fan of the graphic novel format.

There are just so many good books out there, both viral and not. Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis feels like a warm hug and makes me laugh at the level of cheesy. As a new Much Ado About Nothing fan, Mary Jayne Baker’s modern retelling in Love at First Fight felt like the book of my dreams.

My top genre for the year was romance. Would I have considered myself a romance fan before this year? No. There’s a lot less super intense YA fantasy on this list than in years past, and that is honestly still surprising to me. I’ll always love fantasy the most, but there’s just something so joyous about reading about love and how other people imagine it. Don’t worry YA fantasy, I’m coming back soon. I need a new book about a teenage girl living in a forest who fights with a sword ASAP.

For my top 5 books of the year, I’m excluding rereads. I have read Pride and Prejudice before and it remains one of my favorite books of all time. If you’re interested in my past reading, check out my top 5 books of 2020.

5. Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

4. this is how i disappear by Mirion Malle

3. Beach Read by Emily Henry

2. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

1. Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

2022 Reading List

Fiction

• The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood (Review posted!)
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Review posted!)
• The Darkest Parts of the Forest by Holly Black (Review posted!)
• Darkness Before Dawn by J.A. London
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
• The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas (Review posted!)
• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
• My Revolutions by Hara Kunzru
• The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
• Richard II by William Shakespeare
• this is how i disappear by Mirion Malle (Review posted!)
• Henry V by William Shakespeare
• Love at First Fight by Mary Jayne Baker (Review posted!)
• A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• NW by Zadie Smith
• It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover (Review posted!)
• Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur (Review posted!)
• A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (Review posted!)
• Jewels of the Sun by Nora Roberts (Review posted!)
• Six Wicked Reasons by Jo Spain (Review posted!)
• A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (Review posted!)
• All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donaghue (Review posted!)
• Normal People by Sally Rooney (Review posted!)
• Something Like Breathing by Angela Readman
• We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
• Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Review posted!)
• Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (Review posted!)
• The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson
• The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson
• Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay (Review posted!)
• If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane (Review posted!)
• One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Review posted!)
• Beach Read by Emily Henry (Review posted!)
• Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood (Review posted!)
• King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (read 2x!)
• Rebecca bu Daphne du Maurier (Review posted!)
• People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• Sophia by Charlotte Lennox
• Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
• Howards End by E.M. Forester
• House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
• Star Wars Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse
• She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick
• Evelina by Frances Burney
• The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
• PET by Akwaeke Emezi
• A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat
• The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
• Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
• The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
• The Woman of Colour by Anonymous
• The Shining by Stephen King
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• A Crash of Fate (Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge) by Zoraida Córdova
• Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen (Review posted!)
• On Chesil Beach by Ian Mcewan
• Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare

Memoir, Essays, & Creative Nonfiction

• On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming
• Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher
• Nowhere Girl by Magali Le Huche
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel