This year, I’m not doing a reading challenge. They’ve guided and expanded my reading in previous years, but more recently have felt constraining and somewhat joyless. Continuing with one then, seems silly. So this year, I’m reading whatever brings me joy and fits my mood. But I’m going to use a few guiding principles based on things that I want to accomplish. I want to continue or finish some book series that I’ve already started. I want to read primarily from books that I already own. I want to read one fiction, one nonfiction, and one devotional/spiritual/wellness book per month. So without further ado, here is my January 2022 Reading List!

Books Finished

Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

The Guide by Peter Heller

A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts by Therese Ann Fowler

Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher

No One Goes Alone by Erik Larson

I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

Galápagos by Josef Litt

To Pixar And Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History by Lawrence Levy

The Eighth Flag: Cannibals. Conquistadors. Buccaneers. PIRATES. The untold story of the Caribbean and the mystery of St. Croix’s Pirate Legacy, 1493-1750 by Stanford Joines

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown

Society as I Have Found It by Ward McAllister

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord’s Miracles and Parables: Volume 1 by Charles H. Spurgeon

 

Books In Progress

The Stand by Stephen King

Influence by Robert B. Cialdini

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears

Mornings with Tozer: Daily Devotional Readings by A.W. Tozer

 

Books Abandoned

None.