Print and e-books I’ve finished in 2022:
- Shadow of the Silk Road, Colin Thubron
- In Siberia, Colin Thubron
- To a Mountain In Tibet, Colin Thubron
- Among the Russians, Colin Thubron
- The Lost Heart of Asia, Colin Thubron
- The Butchering Art, Lindsey Fitzharris
- China’s Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty, Charles Benn
- Everyday Life in Early Imperial China, Michael Loewe
- The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina, Zoraida Córdova
- Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, Amy Stanley
- 1Q84, Haruki Murakami
- And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
- Westside Lights, W.M. Akers
- The Story of Hong Gildong, Minsoo Kang
- Vagabonds!, Eloghosa Osunde
- The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World, Simon Winchester
- Krakatoa, Simon Winchester
- Atlantic, Simon Winchester
- Quelling the Demons’ Revolt: A Novel from Ming China (Translations from the Asian Classics), Guanzhong Luo, Ellen B. Widmer, David Der-wei Wang, Patrick Hanan
- Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder*
- Trigger Warning, Neil Gaiman
- A Bond Undone, Jin Yong
- River of the Gods, Candace Millard
- The Professor & The Madman, Simon Winchester
- The Mirror & The Light, Hilary Mantel
- Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid, Tim Ecott
- Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, Bee Wilson
- The Cooking Gene, Michael Twitty
- Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
- On the Banks of Plum Creek, Laura Ingalls Wilder*
- By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder*
- Empress Dowager Cixi, Jung Chang
- The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder*
- Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder*
- These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder*
- The First Four Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder*
- On The Way Home, Laura Ingalls Wilder*
- Heartbreaker, Sarah MacLean
- An Unexpected Peril, Deanna Raybourne
- How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life, Ruth Goodman
- Victorian London: The Life of a City 1840-1870 (Life of London Book 4), Liza Picard
- Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages, Matthew Green
- Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know, Greg Jenner
- Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh (Tuttle Classics), Shi Naian
- I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong
- An Immense World, Ed Young
- Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years, Elizabeth Wayland Barber
- Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know, Karl Shaw
- An Atlas of Extinct Countries, Defoe Gideon
- A Million Years a Day, Greg Jenner
- How To Be a Tudor, Ruth Goodman
- Elizabeth’s London, Liza Picard
- A Snake Lies Waiting, Jin Yong (Condor Heroes 3)
- The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
* First reread since I was a kid, and yikes! Beware of unveiled racism.