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The books I read in 2022

If you’ve been around these parts for a while, you may know that I went from 0-100, quite literally, on reading last year (and if you’ve not then hello! Lovely to have you here! Happy New Year to you and yours!). I’m happy to say that habit stuck around - so here are the books I managed in 2022!

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The 100 Books I Read in 2021

In January 2021, faced with a(nother) lockdown in London, and a good bout of the existential dread/depression/ennui/anxiety that comes with that, I picked up a hobby I hadn’t touched in years: reading. And inspired by VORACIOUS interviewee and patron saint of projectification, Elisa Sunga, I was going to do a full analysis of the books I read. But, as it turns out, I couldn’t get anywhere near that level, so instead: here’s the 100 titles I read in 2021.

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You Should Read an Ordinary Age, by Rainesford Stauffer

This year, I found reading again. Some books provided much-needed, blissful escapism from real life; some provided much-needed education for real life; and some provided a not only much-needed but long-overdue mirror of real life. In this latter category was An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way In A World That Demands Exceptional by Rainesford Stauffer.

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