2022: California, again
Coming back to California wasn't just a change of address. It was starting a new job, meeting new people, and quietly asking old questions about who I was becoming. My reading this year reflected all of it, from memoirs about identity and where we come from, and books about how to show up at work and with people. Even the cookbooks felt like an act of settling in.
Recommendations of the year
I can't remember the last time I picked up poetry! I stumbled upon this book at just the right time of my time - full of changes, unknowns, and possibilities. It felt comforting and warm to follow the author's thoughtful journey during a meditation focused on the self. The book definitely gave me a chance to revisit my understanding of self-awareness, personal relationships, and society at large.
To quote someone else's review, "Sometimes the reason everyone calls a book One Of The Best Books Of The Year is because it is."
This book blew my mind at times and broke my heart at times. I devoured it like an essential identity and awareness education. The deep exploration of Asian American identity and its impact on individuals in modern society gave me whole new perspectives that I've never read or seen before from traditional mainstream works.
2022 full reading list - link
The Chronology of Water — Lidia Yuknavitch
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity — Kim Malone Scott
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork — Reeves Wiedeman
Surrounded by Idiots — Thomas Erikson
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet — Leah Thomas
The Glass Castle — Jeannette Walls
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back — Elisabeth Rosenthal
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World — Steven Johnson
Crying in H Mart — Michelle Zauner
Sea of Tranquility — Emily St. John Mandel
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning — Cathy Park Hong
Why We’re Polarized — Ezra Klein
Liminal Thinking — Dave Gray
Clarity & Connection — Yung Pueblo
Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption — Daniel Jones
The Candy House — Jennifer Egan
Cook This Book: Techniques That Teach and Recipes To Repeat — Molly Baz
Seeing Like an Artist: What Artists Perceive in the Art of Others — Lincoln Perry
Season: Big Flavors, Beautiful Food — Nik Sharma
Upgrade — Blake Crouch
Ghost (Track, #1) — Jason Reynolds
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization — Roland Ennos
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions — Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
books read
23
top genres
Memoirs, non-fictions, science fictions
date wrote
12/20/22
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