Book Masterlist 2022

What I Read in 2022

This is a place to see everything I read in the year 2022 and find links to reviews and mentions of the book across the blog. It also details reading challenges I participated in and other general reading information.

2022 has been a strange reading year. After several years of struggling to read, I found the joy in it once more.

January

The Hunting Party [1]

Unseen on TV

February

Hawk [Men of Bird's Eye Book 1]

March

April

Dumb Witness

The Witchfinder's Sister

Three Act Tragedy

May

June

July

A Monster Calls

The Ideal Cut

Gil's All Fright Diner

The Poisonous Solicitor

Convenience Store Woman

The Route of Ice and Salt

A Deadly Education [Scholomance Book 1]

Farenheight 451

August

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club [Lord Peter Wimsey Book 4]

The House in the Cerulean Sea

The Last Graduate [Scholomance Book 2]

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe [Aristotle and Dante Book 1]

Cultish

Mrs. Mohr Goes Missing [Mrs. Mohr Book 1]

Romancing the Werewolf [Gail Carriger's Supernatural Society Book 2]

How to Marry a Werewolf [Gail Carriger's Claw & Courtship Book 1]

The Diviners [The Diviners Book 1]

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home

Uneasy Money

How to Kill Your Family

The Lamplighters

The Book of Forgotten Authors

Sadie

The Stranger Times [Stranger Times Book 1]

Enola Holmes and the Missing Marquess [Enola Holmes Book 1]

Widdershins [Whybourne & Griffin Book 1]

September

The Colours of All the Cattle [No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Book 19]

This Charming Man [Stranger Times Book 2]

Karolina and the Torn Curtain [Mrs. Mohr Book 2]

Lessons in Chemistry

October

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Horrorstor

Alison Hewitt is Trapped

White Trash Warlock [Adam Binder Book 1]

Wylding Hall

Lovecraft Country

Dead Until Dawn [Sookie Stackhouse Book 1]

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

The Slaughtered Lamb Bookstore and Bar

Practical Magic [Practical Magic Book 1]

Wakenhyrst

Mexican Gothic

The X-Files Origins: Devil's Advocate [X-Files Origins Book 2]

My Best Friend's Exorcism

The Black Pages

Meddling Kids

FantasticLand

November

The Bachelor's Valet

Legends & Lattes [1]

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

Circe

Redshirts

The Decagon House Murders

Love in the Time of Serial Killers

Waiting for Ted

Marple

December

Bear Town [Bear Town Book 1]

A Child's Christmas in Wales

Sherlock Holmes and the Three Winter Terrors

Midwinter Murder

The Chimes

What Child is This? [Bonnie Macbird Holmes Book 4]

Cocktails at Seven, Apocalypse at Eight

Secret Santa

Mrs. Claus: Not the Fairytale They Say

The Snowman [1]

Let it Snow

Spinning Silver

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents [Discworld Book 28]

Themed Reading Challenges

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