- Thomas Brezina - Sisis schöne Leichen: Kaiserin Elisabeth ermittelt
- Adam Silvera - They Both Die at the End
- TJ Klune - Under the Whispering Door
- TJ Klune - The House in the Cerulean Sea
- TJ Klune - Wolfsong
- Kevin Hearne - Paper & Blood
- Benjamin Alire Saenz - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- TJ Klune - The Lightning-Struck Heart (Verania 1)
- TJ Klune - A Destiny of Dragons (Verania 2)
- TJ Klune - The Consumption of Magic (Verania 3)
- TJ Klune - A Wish Upon the Stars (Verania 4)
- TJ Klune - Fairytales from Verania
- James Clear - Atomic Habits
- Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Before the Coffee gets cold
- Jennifer Saint - Ariadne
- Zeyn Joukhadar - The Thirty Names of Night
- Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- Chuck Wendig - Damn Fine Story
- Stefan Slupetzky - Der letzte große Trost
- Andre Heller - Wie ich lernte, bei mir selbst Kind zu sein
- Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
- Stephen Fry - Mythos
- Christopher Isherwood - Prater Violet
- Kevin Hearne - No Country for Old Gnomes
- Ava Reid - The Wolf and the Woodsman
- Matthias Büttner - MbKK: Management by Karteikarte
- J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion
- Nikita Gill - Fierce Fairytales
- Stephen Fry - Heroes
- Nikita Gill - Great Goddesses
- Lucas J.W. Johnson - The Clockwork Empire
Starting off with a reading goal of 52 books (one for each week of the year) seemed possible in the first weeks of 2022. In retrospect, this aim did not consider work and other events that have happened this past year. Still, with 31 books read in 2022, I have managed to pass any amount of reading I have done in any other year before.
This year, I was introduced to TJ Klune who writes beautiful stories about queer characters and I utterly enjoyed everything I have read by him (which was an amazing eight out of 31 books). I am already excited for his new novel In the Lives of Puppets which is scheduled for April.
Hopefully, reading works by great authors finally gives me the motivation to start writing myself - there are stories within me that try to break free, myself being the procrastinating barrier they have to cross and following Stephen King‘s quote of „Books are a uniquely portable magic“, I eventually want to be able to wield this magic.
