What I’ve Read | 2022

Last year, I read over 25 books . I had set a goal of 30, but I still feel pretty good about it. I had some medical issues last year that made reading difficult. Those issues have been dealt with, so now it’s down to self-discipline.

If you’d like to see past reading lists, here’s 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015.

Below is a running list of what I’ve read this year.

January

1. Batman: Noel (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
2. Superman – Action Comics, Vol. 5: The House of Kent (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
3. Superman: Confidential, Vol. 1: Kryptonite (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
4. Man-Bat (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
5. Gentle and Lowly by Dane C. Ortlund

Running Total = 2.3

February

1. Justice of America: They Kingdom Come, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
2. Batman/Superman, Vol. 2: World’s Deadliest (Graphic Novel/One-Third)

Running Total = 3

March

1. Batman: The World (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
2. Justice of America: They Kingdom Come, Vol. 2 (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
3. Justice of America: They Kingdom Come, Vol. 3 (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
4. Batman: Gotham Knights – Contested, Vol. 2 (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
5. Batman: Urban Legends, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
6. Superman: The Black Ring, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
7. Superman: The Black Ring, Vol. 2 (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
8. Justice League: Endless Winter (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
9. The Joker, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
10. Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right by Randall Balmer

Running Total = 7

April

1. Nightwing, Vol. 1: Leaping into the Light (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
2. Batman – Detective Comics, Vol. 5: Joker War (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
3. The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You’ve Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended by Sheila Wray Gregoire, Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach, Joanna Sawatsky
4. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
5. I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working by Shauna Niequist (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
6. Superman: Camelot Falls, Vol. 1 & 2 (Graphic Novel/One-Third)

Running Total = 10.33

May

1. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho (Strong Recommendation)
2. American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
3. Batman, Vol. 5: Fear State (Graphic Novel/One-Third)

Running Total = 12.33

June

1. Sacred Endurance: Finding Grace and Strength for a Lasting Faith by Trilla Newbell (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
2. The Wise Woman by George MacDonald (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
3. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
4. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
5. The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

Running Total = 16

July

1. Actions Comics: Superman, Vol. 1: Warworld Rising (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
2. Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
3. Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement by Fergus M. Boredwich (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
4. Superman: Peace on Earth (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
5. The Flash: Superman, Vol. 15: Finish Line (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
6. Superman, Son of Kal-El, Vol. 1: The Truth (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
7. Batman & Robin Adventures, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
8. The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction by Justin Whitmel Earley

Running Total = 20

August

1. The Next Batman: Second Son (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
2. Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets to Self-Control from the Bible and Brain Science (A Guide for Sinners, Quitters, and Procrastinators) by Drew Dyck
3. I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away by Bill Bryson (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
4. Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture by David Murray (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
5. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
6. The Way of Christ: the Simple Way, the Ancient Way, the Narrow Way (Short eBook/Two-Thirds)
7. Nightwing, Vol. 2: Fear State (Graphic Novel/One-Third)

Running Total = 24.67

September

1. Justice League: The Last Ride (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
2. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy by Samuel L. Perry and Philip S. Gorski (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
3. Suicide Squad: Get Joker! (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
4. Superman: Red and Blue (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
5. Don’t Lose Heart: Gospel Hope for the Discouraged Soul by Jason Meyer (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)

Running Total = 27

October

1. Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump by John Fea
2. The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life by Marion Roach Smith
3. Justice League Infinity (Graphic Novel/One-Third)

Running Total = 29.33

November

1. Teen Titans Academy, Vol. 1: X Marks The Spot (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
2. Legends of the Dark Knight, Vol. 1 (2022) (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
3. Humility by Andrew Murray (Audiobook/One-Third)
4. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

Running Total = 31.33

December

1. Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein (Audiobook)
2. The Jefferson Bible: A Biography by Peter Manseau (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)

Cumulative Total = 33