In 2022, I continued to go through my Greatest Works of Literature list, a project I began back in 2011. I’m now up to the mid-19th Century. A big part of the year was spent reading four of the six books in the Barsetshire Chronicles, by Anthony Trollope. I had never read anything of his before, and he is now one of my favorite 19th Century authors. I occasionally detoured to the 21st Century to read books on nature and art, and one recent novel. I was excited to read the book Loving Orphaned Space by my college friend Mrill Ingram (see my review HERE).
Here are the 21 books I finished in 2022, in order of publication date, with my 1-5 star rating. Thanks to Goodreads for providing a space to keep track of my reading.
- The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni (1827) (4/5)
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – Victor Hugo (1831) (4/5)
- Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse – Alexander Pushkin (1833) (4/5)
- Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac (1835) (5/5)
- The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal (1839) (4/5)
- Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville (1835, 1840) (5/5)
- Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol (1842) (4/5)
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket – Edgar Allan Poe (1844) (4/5)
- Walden – Henry David Thoreau (1849) (5/5)
- The Prelude – William Wordsworth (1850) (5/5)
- The Warden – Anthony Trollope (1855) (4/5)
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (1856) (4/5)
- Barchester Towers – Anthony Trollope (1857) (4/5)
- The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin (1859) (5/5)
- The Small House at Allington – Anthony Trollope (1864) (4/5)
- The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope (1867) (5/5)
- Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting – Syd Field (1979) (4/5)
- What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World – Jon Young (2012) (4/5)
- The Hidden Life of Trees – Peter Wohlleben (2015) (4/5)
- Utopia Avenue – David Mitchell (2020) (3/5)
- Loving Orphaned Space: The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth – Mrill Ingram (2022) (5/5)