Books I Read: 2022

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

- James Baldwin ❤️

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Legend

👽 nonfiction

✊🏿 Black+ focus or author

✊🏽 Brown / POC focus or author

🌈 gay

✨ amazinggggg | loved

🤢 could have done other things

😂 you gotta be taking the piss

😒 could have been an email, but was a meeting

🤮 NEVER AGAIN

😵‍💫 what… what happened?!?

🤷🏿‍♀️ can’t decide if I liked it or if it was just okay

🥵 seeeeeexxxyyyyyy

🧚🏿‍♀️ graphic novel

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1. Burnt Sugar ✊🏽

2. Misfits (Michaela Coel) 👽✊🏿

3. Sterling Karat Gold 🌈

4. Salt Slow 🌈

5. We keep the dead close 👽✨✨

6. Last night at the telegraph club ✊🏽 🌈 ✨✨✨

7. How charts lie 👽✨

8. A court of thorns and roses 🦄

9. Less 🌈

10. The Mercies 🌈✨✨✨😭😭

11. Cinderella is dead ✊🏿🌈

12. The Liar’s Dictionary 🌈🥺

13. Breakup Monologues 👽🌈✨

14. Black Buck ✊🏿✨😭

15. A court of mist and fury 🦄

16. Children of the self-absorbed 👽

17. Our wives under the sea 🌈✨🥲

18. The Lazarus Strategy: how to age well and wisely 👽🤷🏿‍♀️

19. Best Lesbian erotica of the year (vol 6) 🌈✨

20. Once ghosted, twice shy 🌈😂

21. Black Girl Finance ✊🏿👽

22. All About Love 👽✨

23. Plain Bad Heroines 🌈

24. Are you listening 🌈🧚🏿‍♀️✨✨

25. Black Wave 🌈✨

26. Fun Home 🌈🧚🏿‍♀️👽

27. Transcendent Kingdom 🌈✨✨

28. Yolk ✊🏽🤷🏿‍♀️

29. Tell it to the bees 🌈✨✨

30. Open Water ✊🏿✨✨✨✨

31. The Library ☺️

32. Wahala ✊🏿✨✨✨✨

33. Rock Paper Scissors

34. The Split 🌈✨

35. Luster ✊🏿

36. Paul takes the form of a mortal girl 🌈

37. There’s no such thing as an easy job ✨✨✨

38. If cats disappeared from the world 🥹✨

39. Ash 🌈✨✨✨

40. Pulp 🌈✨✨✨

41. A single thread 🌈✨

42. How much of these hills is gold 🦄

43. Maxie Mainwaring, Lesbian Dilettante 🌈✨✨✨

44. The Confessions of Frannie Longton 🌈 ✊🏿 ✨✨✨✨🥲

45. Rubyfruit Jungle 🌈🤢

46. I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki 👽

47. Where the crawdads sing 🤢

48. Night Shift 🌈✨✨✨✨

49. One Last Stop 🌈✨✨✨🥹

50. Concerning my daughter 🌈✨

51. Remarkable Creatures 🤷🏿‍♀️

52. Crying in H Mart 👽

53. Simon v the Homo Sapien Agenda 🌈

54. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend 🤷🏿‍♀️

55. The Price of Salt 🌈✨

56. The Other Black Girl ✊🏿

57. People Person ✊🏿✨✨✨

58. A Love Story for Bewildered Girls 🌈

59. Wuthering Heights 😈

60. Everyone in this room will someday be dead 🌈✨

61. Rapunzella ✊🏿👶🏾

62. Double Booked 🌈✨✨✨

63. Exciting Times 🌈🤷🏿‍♀️

64. The Fifth Element 🌈✊🏿

65. A court of wings and ruin 🦄

66. Anna Karenina 😒

67. The stars and the blackness between them 🌈✨✨✨

68. The Little Book of Ikigai 👽

69. The Lottery 🧐

70. Genderqueer 🌈🧚🏿‍♀️✨❤️

71. Huntress 🌈🥹✨✨

72. Before the coffee gets cold

73. Song of Achilles 🌈✨✨✨😭

74. The Mermaid of Black Conch ✊🏿✨

75. Parable of the Sower ✊🏿✨

76. Rain 🌈🧚🏿‍♀️🤷🏿‍♀️

77. We Play Ourselves 🌈✨

78. Milkfed 🌈😵‍💫

79. Lies we tell ourselves 🌈🤮

80. Honey Girl 🌈✨✨✨

81. Black Boy at Eton 👽✨

82. Acts of Service 🌈✨✨🥵

83. Dark Days 🌈✊🏿✨✨✨✨

84. Still Born

85. We Were Liars 😢

86. Parallel Hells 🌈✨✨

87. I love this part 🌈🧚🏿‍♀️ 😢

88. She who became the sun 🌈✨✨✨

89. Kaikeyi ✊🏽✨✨

90. Diary of a Void ✊🏽✨

91. Binge 🤷🏿‍♀️

92. A line in the dark 🌈✨✨✨

93. Our missing hearts 😵‍💫✨✨

94. Tomie 🧚🏿‍♀️✨✨

95. In at the deep end 🌈✨✨

96. Orlando 🌈🤷🏿‍♀️

97. Disobedience 🌈✨

98. Family of Liars 🌈✨✨

99. Unreal Sex 🌈✨🥵

100. Such a fun age ✊🏿✨✨

101. A Shock 🌈

102. Orpheus Builds a Girl 😳✨✨✨

103. Felix Ever After 🌈✨✨✨

104. The Diary of a Teenage Girl 🌈😱✨😵‍💫