I just came in under the wire for my 2022 Goodreads reading challenge (I literally read the last page of the last book 2 hours before midnight). If you happened to read my 2021 reading challenge recap I read 16 books that year. You will notice the list below only has 12 books. Why so few? Two of the books on the list combined for a total of almost 2,000 pages. I knew, by reading those books, it was going to affect my total for the year. Therefore I decided to be a little more reasonable with my goal.

Here is my 2022 Goodreads reading challenge list (** indicates a book I’ve read before):

  • Traitor by Clare Farrell
  • Kubrick’s Game** by Derek Taylor Kent
  • To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
  • Skin Game by Jim Butcher
  • The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
  • Peace Talks by Jim Butcher
  • Cinder** by Marissa Meyer
  • Battle Ground by Jim Butcher
  • Scarlet** by Marissa Meyer
  • The Big Dark Sky by Dean Koontz
  • Cress** by Marissa Meyer
  • Empire Strikes Back From A Certain Point of View by various authors

Wizards, Lunars and Long Books

The biggest accomplishment is that I am finally caught up with The Dresden Files. I now have to wait for book 18 just like everyone else. However, I can now start rereading the series. In fact, I’m already reading Storm Front as the first book of the year.

On the subject of rereading, I am almost done rereading the Lunar Chronicles. Winter is the last book of the series (Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress make up the other books). I am more than 50% of the way through Winter so I should be finishing that up in the coming weeks.

As I mentioned above, two books were particularly long which impacted my goal. The Way of Kings is 1,000 pages and To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is over 800 pages. They are good books, I enjoyed them both, but they are long books.

I was terrible about writing book reviews but there are a couple up there you can click on if you’re interested.

Did you have any reading challenges in 2022? How did you do?

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” 
– Dr. Seuss