What I Read in 2022

I spend many hours a week in the car, commuting 250 miles each way for work. So, “reading books” has become “listening to books.” I immersed myself in most of these books through my ears rather than through my eyes, which has become a new way of experiencing a story, a set of ideas, and getting to know the characters, real or imagined.

1. The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
2. Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
3. Going There by Katie Couric
4. Chaver Up! 49 Rabbis Explore What It Means to be an Ally Through a Jewish Lens eds. Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum and Rabbi Mike Moskowitz
5. How to Be an Ally: Actions You Can Take for a Stronger, Happier Workplace by Melinda Briana Epler
6. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
7. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
8. A Wedding at Hedgehog Hollow by Jessica Redland
9. The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder by Wayne Hoffman
10. Diary of a Lonely Girl or the Battle Against Free Love by Miriam Karpilove (Transl by Jessica Kirzane)
11. The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
12. The Third Daughter by Talia Carner
13. The Essay by Robin Yocum
14. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
15. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
16. The Last Watchman of Old Cairo by Michael David Lukas
17. Leaving the Witness by Amber Scorah
18. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
19. Once More with Chutzpah by Haley Neil
20. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
21. Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
22. The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
23. Becoming Eve by Abby Chava Stein
24. God, Grades, and Graduation by Ilana Horwitz
25. Color Me In by Natasha Diaz
26. All the Rivers by Dorit Rabinyan
27. The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick
28. The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Sexual Abuse by Judah Oudshoorn
29. The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
30. Running with Sherman by Christopher McDougall
31. These Precious Days by Anne Patchett
32. Inclusion on Purpose by Ruchika Tulshyan
33. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
34. The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
35. Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
36. Make Yourself a Teacher: Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples by Susan Handelman
37. How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going by Susan Beaumont
38. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
39. The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
40. Search by Michelle Huneven
41. They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
42. Chasing Dreams at Hedgehog Hollow by Jessica Redland
43. On Gold Mountain by Lisa See
44. My Father’s Paradise by Ariel Sabar
45. The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander
46. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
47. Christmas Miracles at Hedgehog Hollow by Jessica Redland
48. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
49. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
50. Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders by Joy Ladin
51. Unprotected by Billy Porter
52. South to America by Imani Perry
53. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
54. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
55. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
56. Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone by Diana Gabaldon
57. Book Lovers by Emily Henry
58. The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare by Kimberly Brock