I knew 2022 would hold a lot. I started the year very pregnant with twin boys and would birth them in the coming weeks. Looking back, my goal of reading 3 books/month while raising newborn twins was a bit lofty, however, somehow I squeezed in the last book in the final days of the year.

It was hard to pick my favorites because I honestly didn’t have a lot of stand-out reads. There were a lot of good books, but not many great ones.

I am putting two stars next to my favorites and one star next to those with honorable mention :)

The Keeper of Lost Things – Ruth Hogan
West with Giraffes – Lynda Rutledge
The Louder Song – Aubrey Sampson⭐️
Naturally Tan – Tan France
What the Wind Knows – Amy Harmon
Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe – Heather Webber⭐️
Bittersweet – Shauna Niequist⭐️⭐️
Forty Days on Being a Six – Tara Beth Leach
What Kind of Woman – Kate Baer⭐️
Raising Twins – Shelly Vaziri Flais⭐️⭐️
What We Didn’t Expect – Melody Shreiber
The 1619 Project – Nikole Hannah-Jones
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
People We Meet on Vacation – Emily Henry⭐️
This Time Tomorrow – Emma Straub
Take Back Your Family – Jefferson Bethke
How to Keep House While Drowning – K.C. Davis
The Night Watchman – Louise Erdrich
Prayer in the Night – Tish Harrison Warren⭐️⭐️
Every Summer After – Carley Fortune⭐️⭐️
Felicity – Mary Oliver
Beach Read – Emily Henry
Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie⭐️
Home Stories – Kim Leggett
Love & Saffron – Kim Fay
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson
Troublemaker – Leah Remini
Long Live the Queen – Bryan Kozlowski⭐️⭐️
Rock Paper Scissors – Alice Feeney
Confessions of a Crappy Christian – Blake Guichet
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Emmanuel – Ruth Chou Simons⭐️
The Wonder of the Greatest Gift – Ann Voskamp
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing – Matthew Perry⭐️
Notes on Grief – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie⭐️⭐️
Delicious! – Ruth Reichl

My favorite place to track my reading is Goodreads–let’s be friends!

Here’s to more great reads in 2023!