#ReadWomen 2022 Last Quarter

Here we are at the end of 2022, time to have one last look at all the books I've read this year!



  1. High Wages by Dorothy Whipple
  2. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 
  3. Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton 
  4. The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura
  5. The Bird’s Nest by Shirley Jackson
  6. Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi (re-read)
  7. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories by Karen Russell (re-read)
  8. Consolations by David Whyte
  9. If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission by Jo Piazza
  10. The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good For You and How to Get Good At It by Kelly McGonigal, PhD
  11. My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (re-read)
  12. Return of The Trickster by Eden Robinson
  13. Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol by Mallory O’Meara
  14. The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth 
  15. The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi (re-read)
  16. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
  17. Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
  18. Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood
  19. The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami 
  20. Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson
  21. Wow, no thank you.: Essays by Samantha Irby
  22. The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
  23. Women Talking: A Novel by Miriam Toews
  24. The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan 
  25. The Dance of Connection by Harriet Lerner, PhD
  26. Circe by Madeline Miller
  27. The Way of Integrity: Finding the path to your true self by Martha Beck
  28. The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection by Kerry Greenwood
  29. Ask for More: 10 Questions to Negotiate Anything by Alexandra Carter
  30. You’re History: Twelves Strangest Women in Music by Lesley Chow
  31. In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson 
  32. Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
  33. Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft by Samantha Silva
  34. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 
  35. A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib 
  36. Death in Daylesford by Kerry Greenwood (re-read)
  37. Siren Queen by Nghi Vo 
  38. Murder and Mendelssohn by Kerry Greenwood (re-read)
  39. The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood (re-read)
  40. Unnatural Habits by Kerry Greenwood (re-read)
  41. The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
  42. Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang
  43. The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
  44. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
  45. I Am Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
  46. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 
  47. Emily Climbs by L.M. Montgomery (re-read)
  48. Emily’s Quest by L.M. Montgomery (re-read)
  49. Chemistry by Weike Wang
  50. Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  51. God Help the Child by Toni Morrison 
  52. Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline
  53. Bedroom Rapper: Cadence Weapon on Hip-Hop, Resistance, and Surviving the Music Industry by Rollie Pemberton
  54. Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen
  55. The Mirror and the Palette Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women’s Self-Portraits by Jennifer Higgie
  56. Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson
  57. I Hear She’s A Real Bitch by Jen Agg
  58. Portrait of a Thief  by Grace D. Li 
  59. We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson

I re/read 59 books in 2022 total, 56 of them were written by women.

My favourite fiction read was The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova.

My favourite non-fiction reads were definitely Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol by Mallory O'Meara and A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib and these were probably my top two books read this year.

There were a few books in particular that I found particularly haunting and have given me lots of food for thought, even months after, those are:

Women Talking: A Novel by Miriam Toews
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

As much as it pains to admit, I was most disappointed by Shirley Jackson's The Bird's Nest -- repetitive and not satisfying. 

I think it's an absolute and total snub that Bedroom Rapper: Cadence Weapon on Hip-Hop, Resistance, and Surviving the Music Industry by Rollie Pemberton was not on Pitchfork's best music books of 2022. To be fair, Pemberton snubs Pitchfork a lot in his book (he used to write for them and reveals a lot of eyebrow-raising details). It does concern me though that so many major music institutions are either ignoring, misrepresenting, or otherwise snubbing so many Black Canadian musicians. 

For the year ahead, I'm looking forward to reading more by Octavia E. Butler and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, what luck that both were/are such prolific writers - more for me to read!




Here is my slow and steady progress throughout the year:
First quarter reading list 
Second quarter reading list
Third quarter reading list 

I have been doing #ReadWomen since 2014! Find out why here. Want to know what I've read in previous years? Links below!

2021 books

2020 books 

2019 books

2018 books

2017 books

2016 books

2015 books

2014 books

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