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.

1. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni (1827) (4/5)
2. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – Victor Hugo (1831) (4/5)
3. Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse – Alexander Pushkin (1833) (4/5)
4. Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac (1835) (5/5)
5. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal (1839) (4/5)
6. Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville (1835, 1840) (5/5)
7. Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol (1842) (4/5)
8. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket – Edgar Allan Poe (1844) (4/5)
9. Walden – Henry David Thoreau (1849) (5/5)
10. The Prelude – William Wordsworth (1850) (5/5)
11. The Warden – Anthony Trollope (1855) (4/5)
12. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (1856) (4/5)
13. Barchester Towers – Anthony Trollope (1857) (4/5)
14. The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin (1859) (5/5)
15. The Small House at Allington – Anthony Trollope (1864) (4/5)
16. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope (1867) (5/5)
17. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting – Syd Field (1979) (4/5)
18. What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World – Jon Young (2012) (4/5)
19. The Hidden Life of Trees – Peter Wohlleben (2015) (4/5)
20. Utopia Avenue – David Mitchell (2020) (3/5)
21. Loving Orphaned Space: The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth – Mrill Ingram (2022) (5/5)