Books Read in 2022

This is the fourth year I’ve given myself a target of books to read (since giving a push to start reading more books in 2019), but unfortunately, I didn’t make it. Like last year, I had given myself a target of 20 (which I completed last year), but fell short at 16. I found myself going long periods, sometimes months, without making much progress this year. As the year was coming to a close, I was actually planning on trying to give a huge spurt during the last 1-2 weeks, but I ended up getting sick and wasn’t really in a state to read much. Oh well. I did also feel a bit bad because a few of the books I did get through were quite short, but looking at the stats on Goodreads, my total page count is in keeping with previous years (even similar to last year), so looks like I read a few bigger books that balanced out with the short ones.

Below is the list of those 16 books I did read, with links to my mini reviews on Goodreads. And yes, I’m again giving myself a target of 20 for this coming year, which I hope to surpass.

1. After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul (Tripp Mickle)
2. Becoming All Elite: The Rise of AEW (Michael Sidgwick)
3. Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo (Reggie Fils-Aimé)
4. Goldfinger (Ian Fleming)
5. LaserWriter II (Tamara Shopsin)
6. Les mystères du lotus bleu (Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle)
7. Measure What Matters (John Doerr)
8. Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry (Jason Schreier)
9. Severance – The Lexington Letter (Anonymous)
10. The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
11. The Hunting Party (Lucy Foley)
12. The Man in the Brown Suit (Agatha Christie)
13. The Secret of Chimneys (Agatha Christie)
14. Wallpaper City Guide: Shanghai (Wallpaper Magazine)
15. Waste Tide (Chen Qiufan)
16. With a Mind to Kill (Anthony Horowitz)