Tea and Books on GerrysBookshelf in 2022

Hi, I’m Gerry and this is my 8th year with the 75 books group.
I enjoy following the Nonfiction and Reading Through Time challenges.
I may try the Asia reading challenge too.

Nonfiction Challenge

January: Prizewinners and Nominees
The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner

February: Welcome to the Anthropocene
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid by Thor Hanson

March: Espionage (and Counter-Espionage)
Turncoats, Traitors and Heroes: Espionage in the American Revolution by John Bakeless

April: Armchair Travelling
A Walk Through Wales by Anthony Bailey

May: From Wars to Peace
The Name of War : King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore

June: Science and Medicine
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

July: Books by Journalists
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

August: Cross-Genres
A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan

September: Biography
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth : a life by Frances Wilson

October: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
The Gilded Page : The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley

November: Books About Books
Word by Word : The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper

December: As You Like It
Portable Magic : A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith

Global Reading

India: Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Turkey: Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal
Czech Republic: Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Israel: A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
Russia: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitzyn
Australia: The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Japan: The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
Iran: The Blind Owl by Sadiq Hidayat
Afghanistan: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
India: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Tanzania: River of the Gods by Candice Millard
Japan: Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe
Iceland: Salka Valka by Halldor Laxness
Korea: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Ireland: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Tibet: We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama
Vietnam: Paradise of the Blind by Thu Huong Duong
Malaysia: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Reading Through Time

Monthly

January: Eastern Philosophies and Religiion
Kim by Rudyard Kipling

February: Rural Life
All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison
A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett

March: Time
The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier

April: Technology
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: technology and invention in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies

May: Beginnings
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson

June: The Golden State
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

July: Mental Health – then and now
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

August: What Can Fiction Teach Us About History
In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor

September: Harvest Moon
Autumn : an anthology for the changing seasons edited by Melissa Harrison

October: Musically Speaking
Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx

November: Ends and Endings
Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case by Agatha Christie

December: Reader’s Choice

Quarterly

1st Jan-Mar: 19th Century (excluding N.Amer)
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
The Secret River by Kate Grenville

2nd Apr-June: 19th Century North America (excludes Old West)
The Peabody Sisters of Salem by Louise Hall Tharp

3rd July-Sept: The Old West
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

4th Oct-Dec: 20th Century before WWI 1900-1913
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden

Asian Book Challenge

January: Turkish Authors
Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal

February: The Holy Land – Israeli and Palestinian Authors
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz

March: The Arab World
Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf

April: Persia – Iranian Authors
The Blind Owl by Sadiq Hidayat

May: The Stans
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

June: The Indian Sub-Continent (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

July: Chinese Authors
A Dream of Red Mansions Volume 1 by Tsao Hsueh-Chin

August: Japanese Authors
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe

September: Korean Authors
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

October: Authors from Indo-China
Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong

November: The Malay Archipelago (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia)
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

December: Ethnic Asian writers from elsewhere
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

January

1. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
2. Books and Libraries: Poems exited by Andrew D. Scrimgeour
3. Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal
4. The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
5. The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
6. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
7. Winter: An anthology for the changing seasons edited by Melissa Harrison
8. Don’t Overthink It by Anne Bogel
9. Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
10. Harlequin House by Margery Sharp
11. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver
12. Rhododendron Pie by Margery Sharp
13. How to Live Like a Monk: Medieval Wisdom for Modern Life by Daniele Cybulskie
14. The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
15. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

February

16. Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart edited by Krista Halverson
17. Four Gardens by Margery Sharp
18. Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
19. A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
20. And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier
21. All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison
22. A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett
23. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid by Thor Hanson
24. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
25. The Triumphant Cat by Walter Payne
26. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
27. My Dog Tulip by J.R. Ackerley
28. Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm by Thich Nhat Hanh

March

29. The Secret River by Kate Grenville
30. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
31. Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
32. Turncoats, Traitors and Heroes: Espionage in the American Revolution by John Bakeless
33. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
34. The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
35. Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield
36. A Natural History of the Future by Rob Dunn
37. Hooked on a Feline by Sofie Kelly
38. The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
39. The Wars by Timothy Findley

April

40. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
41. Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton
42. The Blind Owl by Sadiq Hidayat
43. Miss Kopp Investigates by Amy Stewart
44. A Walk Through Wales by Anthony Bailey
45. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
46. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
47. The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
48. The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

May

49. A Sunlit Weapon by Jacqueline Winspear
50. Tales from a Village School by Miss Read
51. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
52. Drifting with the Moon by Gunther Klinge
53. Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: technology and invention in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies
54. The City of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
55. The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
56. Autumn Rounds by Jacques Poulin
57. Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson
58. The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo

June

59. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
60. Susan Settles Down by Molly Clavering
61. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
62. The Name of War : King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore
63. The Peabody Sisters of Salem by Louise Hall Tharp
64. I Sing the Pioneer by Arthur Guiterman
65. Mrs. Tim of the Regiment by D. E. Stevenson
66. The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
67. Mrs. Tim Carries On by D. E. Stevenson
68. Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet
69. Windflower by Gabrielle Roy

July

70. Mrs. Tim Gets a Job by D. E. Stevenson
71. Mrs. Tim Flies Home by D. E. Stevenson
72. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
73. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
74. River of the Gods by Candice Millard
75. Poems of the Sea edited by J. D. McClatchy
76. A Dream of Red Mansions Volume 1 by Tsao Hsueh-Chin
77. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
78. Search : a memoir with recipes by Dana Louise Potowski : a novel by Michelle Huneven
79. Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson
80. Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

August

81. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
82. The Woman Who Kept Everything by Jane Gilley
83. Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff
84. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe
85. Summer: An anthology for the changing seasons edited by Melissa Harrison
86. Salka Valka by Halldor Laxness
87. In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor
88. Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
89. The Land of Green Ginger by Winifred Holtby
90. Thomasina by Paul Gallico
91. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan
92. Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World by William Alexander

September

93. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
94. The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth : a life by Frances Wilson
95. The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom
96. The Fell by Sarah Moss
97. Twenty-one Cardinals by Jocelyne Saucier
98. Autumn : an anthology for the changing seasons edited by Melissa Harrison
99. Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden
100. The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden
101. Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell

October

102. Honey from Stone: A Naturalist’s Search for God by Chet Raymo
103. Whiskers and Lies by Sofie Kelly
104. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
105. Jazz by Toni Morrison
106. The Little Prince 75th Anniversary Edition by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
107. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama
108. Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx
109. Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
110. Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
111. Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

November

112. The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman
113. The Gilded Page : The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley
114. The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins
115. Word by Word : The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper
116. The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy by Moiya McTier
117. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
118. The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
119. Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case by Agatha Christie
120. Poems Bewitched and Haunted edited by John Hollander
121. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
122. Haven by Emma Donoghue
123. The Quiet American by Graham Greene

December

124. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light by Joy Harjo
125. Portable Magic : History of Books and Their Readers by Emma Smith
126. Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
127. Murder for Christmas by Francis Duncan
128. The Poetry of Robert Frost
129. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
130. Mister Blue by Jacques Poulin
131. Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
132. Winters in the World : A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker

Favorite Books in 2022

Fiction
And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier
All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Autumn Rounds by Jacques Poulin
Search : a memoir with recipes by Dana Louise Potowski : a novel by Michelle Huneven

Poetry
Drifting with the Moon by Gunther Klinge
The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light by Joy Harjo

Non-Fiction
A Natural History of the Future by Rob Dunn
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
River of the Gods by Candice Millard
A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan

Welcome back, Gerry! I’m gonna try to keep up with the Asian challenge too. I’m usually pretty awful with the challenges - we’ll see how this goes!

Hi Gerry! You don't know me from Adam, and I never manage to keep up on people's threads, but hope springs eternal, so I'm dropping stars on interesting looking threads for 2022.

Parts of those challenges look interesting, but parts do not - so I think I'll drop a star here, and just pick up "book bullets" from you when you especially like something you read.

This group always helps me to read; welcome back, Gerry.

Happy reading in 2022, Gerry!

Enjoy your 2022 reads!

Nothing from you in January or February thus far, Gerry.

Are you ok?

At least I see that you have updated your reading.

>23 PaulCranswick: Doing fine. I'm just a quieter LT user. It's a great source for book recommendations and for adding structure to my reading plans. And it provides easy access to the list of books I own. Can't tell you how many times it's saved me from buying books I already have. :)
Thanks for asking. Stay well and happy reading!

>24 GerrysBookshelf: I think we all get what we can from the site generally and the group in particular. I like keeping up with as many of our friends as possible and pay fairly regular visits to threads both to see what's going on, who is reading what, to say hi and keep my book reading stats up to date.

I of course also notice quite a close correlation between the books we both like to read.

Blizzard conditions here in the Buffalo, NY area. It started out raining this morning and now it is 12 degrees F and snowing heavily with at least 40 mph winds. Can’t see across the street. There are travel bans all over western New York. Luckily the electricity just came back on. (It was out for the last 5 hours)

I remember “the big one” - the Blizzard of ‘77.
This one is well on its way to matching it!

Go Bills! 🏈