Reading in 2022

 Since I started keeping track of the books I read on Goodreads in 2009, I have read and recorded 3,469 books. My reading-est year was 2015 when I read 300! In 10 of those years I read more than 200 books. This year is the smallest number I've read since I began keeping track. I finished the year yesterday with 141 (My lowest year had been 2009 with 165.) After my retinal stroke in April, I hardly read at all for several months due to eye strain and had to cut way back on my walking (while listening to audiobooks) as well; so that cut into my totals a lot. The 13 books I read in 2022 that I rated 5-star were authored by Andrew Klavan, Lisa Unger, Lisa Wingate, Sean Dietrich, Francine Rivers, Kristina McMorris, Ana Johns, Jeanine Cummins, Dean Koontz, Lisa Scottoline, and Nicholas Sparks. Only one of these was non-fiction.

Here are a few I've rated 5-star: The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer; Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin; Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers; The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer; The Shack by William Paul Young; Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos; Peace Like a River by Leif Enger; Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand; Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate; The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah; I'll Be Your Blue Sky by Marisa de los Santos; Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris; The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns; American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins; The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate; the Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich; The Perfect Daughter by D.J. Palmer; My Wife is Missing by D.J. Palmer; The Truth and Beauty by Andrew Klavan.