Prof KRG

A practical resource for all writers.

  • Writing
    • Quotables
    • Nerd Notes
  • Leadership
    • Pub Manual 101 Series
  • Mental Health
  • Readings
    • Prof KRG’s Bookstore
    • Nonfiction
    • Fiction
    • 2023 Reading List
    • 2022 Reading List
    • 2021 Reading List
    • 2020 Reading List
    • 2019 Reading List
    • 2018 Reading List
    • 2017 Reading List
    • 2016 Reading List
    • 2015 Reading List
    • 2014 Reading List
    • 2013 Reading List
    • Blogs Worth Reading
    • Podcasts Worth Hearing

2022 Reading List

Another year, another reading list? I don’t mind if I do!

I’ve read at least 100 books a year for the past eight years, so it’s fair to say I’m an avid reader. As such, I love giving and receiving book recommendations.

I document all of the books I read each year on my annual reading list. This 2022 reading list is where I will track my monthly reading and give each book I read a grade. An “A” book is one that I consider excellent. It’s a game-changer — something I would recommend to anyone. But please don’t ignore books I give “B” grades. These are really great books, but they just aren’t excellent life-changing books.

I’m not creating a reading challenge this year. But after several years of reading about 125 books or so, I really want to hit 150 books again. We’ll see if I can make it happen. Either way, I’ll read a lot.

Want to see reviews of my favorite books through the years? Visit my bookstore to view and purchase books I’ve given perfect grades.

I hope you find something on my 2022 reading list to read and love. As always, happy reading!

December (14 books read)

1. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals – C

2. Are You Sara? – A

3. Wrong Place, Wrong Time – D

4. Happy Mind, Happy Life: The New Science of Mental Wellbeing – B

5. The Child Finder – A

6. My Oxford Year – B

7. Doing Life with Your Adult Children – A

8. Nothing More to Tell – B

9. The Book of Boundaries – A

10. She’s Gone – B

11. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing – B

12. The Light We Lost – B

13. It Starts With Us – A

14. Have at It, Sister – D

November (16 books read)

1. Next of Kin – C

2. Beneath Devil’s Bridge – C

3. All That’s Left Unsaid – B

4. Mad Honey – A

5. Thank You For Listening – C

6. The Widow – C

7. Do Not Disturb – C

8. One By One – C

9. Dinners with Ruth – A

10. I’m Glad My Mom Died – D

11. What Happened That Night – C

12. Run on Red – A

13. The Light We Carry – A

14. Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Closed Cases – A

15. No One Can Hear You Scream – A

16. Finding Me – A

October (15 books read)

1. You Did This – C

2. The Last Move – C

3. The Butcher and the Wren – C

4. The Confidence of Wildflowers – B

5. The Wife Upstairs – B

6. The Passenger – D

7. Saving Meghan – C

8. Uncharted Waters – C

9. Slenderman – C

10. No One Crosses the Wolf – D

11. Ask for Andrea – A

12. The Family Outing – A

13. You’d Be Home Now – A

14. The Turn of the Key – B

15. Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature – C

September (13 books read)

1. Love and Other Words – A

2. A Stranger on the Beach – B

3. Cold Truth – B

4. All Good People Here – A

5. Look Closer – C

6. The Housemaid – B

7. It Ends With Us – A

8. We Carry Their Bones – C

9. The Secrets of Us – C

10. The Inmate – A

11. Never Lie – A

12. How Are You, Really? – A

13. Phantom Limb – C

August (10 books read)

1. Beach Read – B

2. Like Wind Against Rock – D

3. One True Loves – C

4. One of the Girls – B

5. Saving Noah – A

6. If He Had Been with Me – B

7. Crazy Love – B

8. Every Summer After – A

9. High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict’s Double Life – B

10. Things We Do in the Dark – A

July (10 books read)

1. The Memory Watcher – B

2. Book Lovers – A

3. The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive – A

4. The Locked Door – B

5. Sisters of Mercy – D

6. The Wife Before – C

7. Still Beating – D

8. Any Man – C

9. Unmissing – A

10. The Girl Upstairs – C

June (9 books read)

1. The Family Across the Street – B

2. Find Me – B

3. Just Between Us – B

4. Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance – D

5. High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out – C

6. The Cipher – C

7. Things We Never Got Over – A

8. My Perfect Daugther – C

9. Girl Gone Mad – B

11. Girl Gone Mad – B

May (8 books read)

1. Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World – C

2. Reminders of Him – A

3. One Year Gone – C

4. Scorched Ground – B

5. The Rain – C

6. The Vacation – C

7. The Family Plot – C

8. Like a Sister – B

April (9 books read)

1. The Body Keeps the Score – A

2. Survive the Night – D

3. Final Girls – A

4. 1,000+ Little Things Happy Successful People Do Differently – C

5. The Overnight Guest – A

6. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, and So Much More – A

7. The Book of Cold Cases – A

8. Notes on an Execution – B

9. Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy – C

March (8 books read)

1. The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again – C

2. The Sleep Fix: Practical, Proven, and Surprising Solutions for Insomnia, Snoring, Shift Work, and More – C

3. Open House – D

4. Sadie – A

5. The Night Shift – A

6. Believe Me – B

7. The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage – B

8. Good Comes First: How Today’s Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn’t Suck – B

February (8 books read)

1. The Perfect Son – C

2. Circling the Drain – C

3. The Watcher Girl – C

4. Slow Motion – D

5. A Flicker in the Dark – C

6. The Maid – A

7. The Collective – A

8. American Daughter – D

January (12 books read)

1. Her Perfect Family – D

2. Going There – B

3. No One Will Miss Her – A

4. Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home – C

5. My Darling Husband – A

6. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music – A

7. We Are Not Like Them – A

8. Home Before Dark – A

9. Detox Your Thoughts: Quit Negative Self Talk for Good and Discover the Life You Always Wanted – C

10. November 9 – A

11. Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back – B

12. The Perfect Roommate – C

Subscribe

Connect

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

Prof KRG

Prof KRG aims to create an ongoing educational dialogue among media professionals, students and educators.

Please let me know what resources you need or topics you wish you better understood. If I don't know the information, I'm happy to seek out someone who does.

Contact me via email at kennagriffin@gmail.com.

Quotables

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.

— Oliver James

About Kenna Griffin

I am a mass communications professor, journalist and collegiate media adviser. I teach classes including those on writing, reporting, media law, media ethics, social media marketing, and public relations. I am married, have two children and live in Oklahoma. More about this site's purpose

The archive

Prof KRG Insider

  • About
  • Contact
  • My Toolbox

Copyright© 2023, Kenna Griffin