Sorting through the noise to figure out what's worth reading is so tricky, and I truly appreciate reading recommendations I get from friends, so here are my reactions to books I read or listened to in 2022. Let me know if you read any of these and what you thought.
Self improvement
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| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Daring Greatly | Brene Brown |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Unbound | Kasia Urbaniak |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | On Writing | Steven King |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | The Queen’s Code | Alison Armstrong |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Boundary Boss | Terri Cole |
| ⭐⭐️⭐️ | The Gap and the Gain | Dan Sullivan |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | The Courage to Create | Rollo May |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Atomic Habits | James Clear |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️ | StrengthsFinder 2.0 | Gallup |
Fiction
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| ⭐️⭐️⭐️ | The King in the Window | Adam Gopnik |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Tickled Pink: A Comic Novel | Rita Rudner |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Unsheltered | Barbara Kingsolver |
| ⭐️⭐️ | The Real Dope | Ring Lardner |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel | Amor Towles |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | The Martian | Andy Weir |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Tower of Babylon (A Vintage Short) | Ted Chiang |
| ⭐️⭐⭐️ | Next Time Around: Some Things Pleasantly Remembered | John Gould |
Memoir/History
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| ⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Benjamin Franklin: An American Life | Walter Isaacson |
Natural world
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| ⭐️⭐️⭐️ | The Language of Butterflies | Wendy Williams, Angela Brazil, et al. |
If you get a physical copy of a book, please consider buying from an independent bookseller such as Frugal Bookstore in Boston or Powell’s in Portland.
