Kellee’s 2022 Reading Round Up: Statistics, Favorite Reads, #mustreadin2022 End-of-Year Check In, #mustreadin2023 List

Here is my 2022 Reading Round Up!

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And just for fun: here is Trent’s 2022 Year in Books!
(It was my first year we tracked his independent reading on Goodreads; it was so much fun to get this data at the end of the year!)

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Here are my favorite books read in 2022! Although not all of them are 2022 published books, 43 of them are (and 1 is even 2023). If you want to learn about these books visit my FAVORITE READS IN 2022 Goodreads shelf. 

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I introduced my #mustreadin2022 list last January (<– visit that link to see the list in its entirety), and I will say that I was quite successful! I read 36 out of 42 books on my list!

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I love the Must Read challenge! I took part in 2015-2019 & 2021-2022, so I am happy to join again! It helps me remember to read certain books!

Thank you to Carrie at There’s A Book for That for starting this challenge and to Leigh Ann of A Day in the Life and Cheriee of Library Matters for reviving it in 2022.

For those of you new to the challenge, it has you take a look at the books you wanted to read, but for whatever reason, you have not gotten to them. You then make your own personal list of books you want to commit to (trying to) read.

There is no set number of books and books can be published from any year, in any genre or format, and in any category. These books will not be the only ones you read this year but will be the ones included in your personal challenge.

This year, I may have gone a bit wild with my lists. I just couldn’t choose! (If you follow here, you know that is a trend of mine…) This means, I ended up with 64 titles on my #mustreadin2023 list which I’ve separated into middle grade and young adult. (And to be honest, I am tempted to make an adult and graphic novel/manga list because I love having these lists as reminders!)

Middle Grade

1. 12 to 22 by Jen Calonita
2. The Accidental Apprentice (Wildlore #1) by Amanda Foody
3. Across the Desert by Dusti Bowling
4. Answers in the Pages by David Levithan
5. Area 51 Interns: Alien Summer by James S. Murray & Carsen Smith
6. Astrid the Unstoppable by Majia Parr
7. Atlantis Rising by T.A. Barron
8. The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf
9. The Mystery of Clockwork Sparrow (Sinclair’s Mysteries #1) by Katherine Woodfine
   *Oops! I thought it was just named The Clockwork Sparrow but it isn’t, so it is out of order alphabetically…
10. Consider the Octopus by Nora Raleigh Baskin & Gae Polisner
11. Cuba in my Pocket by Adrianna Cuevas
12. Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat (Emmy #1) by Lynne Jonell
13. Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Brooks by Caela Carter
14. The First Rule of Climate Club by Carrie Firestone
15. H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villainous Education (HIVE #1) by Mark Walden
16. Troublemaker by John Cho
    *Oops! I thought it was named John Cho Troublemaker but it isn’t, so it is out of order alphabetically
17. Love Like Sky #1 by Leslie C. Youngblood
18. Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee
19. The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart
20. My Own Lightning by Lauren Wolk
21. New From Here by Kelly Yang
22. On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (Wingfeather Saga #1) by Andrew Peterson
23. The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (Penderwicks #1) by Jeanne Birdsall
24. A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus
25. The Prisoner of Cell 25 (Michael Vey #1) by Richard Paul Evans
26. Race to the End of the World (Mapmaker Chronicles #1) by A.L. Tait
27. Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca
28. A Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga
29. Thirst by Varsha Bajaj
30. The Tornado by Jake Burt
31. Tuesdays at the Castle (Castle Glower #1) by Jessica Day George
32. Tumble by Celia Pérez
33. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (The Vanderbeekers #1) by Karina Yan Glaser
34. Worser by Jennifer Ziegler

Young Adult

1. Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
2. All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
3. Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer
   *This is a reread. I want to read the sequels, so I am starting at the beginning.
4. The Extraordinaries (Extraordinaries #1) by T.J. Klune
   *This is a reread. I want to read the sequels, so I am starting at the beginning.
5. Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All by Candace Fleming, M.T. Anderson, Jennifer Donnelly, Stephanie Hemphill, Deborah Hopkinson, Linda Sue Park, and Lisa Ann Sandell
6. The First to Die at the End (Death Cast #0) by Adam Silvera
7. Five Survive by Holly Jackson
8. Flight 171 by Amy Christine Parker
9. Furia by Yamila Saied Méndez
10. Gamechanger by Neal Shusterman
11. Heartless by Marissa Meyer
12. Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed
13. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
14. The Ivies by Alexa Donne
15. Legendborn (Legendborn #1) by Tracy Deonn
16. The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
17. Me: Moth by Amber McBride
18. Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime by Candance Fleming
19. The Murder Game by Carrie Doyle
20. The Naturals (The Naturals #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
21. Nothing More to Tell by Karen McManus
22. Queer Ducks (And Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer
23. The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
24. The Selection (Selection #1) by Keira Cass
25. Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1) by Tahereh Mafi
26. Simone Breaks All the Rules (Simone Breaks All the Rules #1) by Debbie Rigaud
27. So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix (Remixed Classics #2) by Bethany C. Morrow
28. Steelheart (The Reckoners #1) by Brandon Sanderson
29. Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson
30. Truly Devious (Truly Devious #1) by Maureen Johnson
31. We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
32. We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
33. We Were Kings by Court Stevens
34. What the Fact?: Debunking Disinformation to Detangle the Truth by Seema Yasmin

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Happy reading in 2023, friends!!!
To see all the books I’m reading, visit my READ Goodreads shelf and feel free to follow 📖💙