2022 reads

I still tried to read daily but less stress on myself than last year.  I think it's safe to say I'm back in the routine of reading and I love it.  Some of these were family reads--I'm so glad we've moved beyond picture books.  * were my favorites.

  1. How To Stop Time*
  2. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan's Curse
  3. The Last Thing He Told Me
  4. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth
  5. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue*
  6. Wonder Seeker
  7. Don't Put a Cactus in the Bathroom
  8. The Summer Job
  9. Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
  10. Game On: Tempting 28
  11. Call Us What We Carry
  12. The Four Winds
  13. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian
  14. part of the first Bridgerton book
  15. The Supernatural Society
  16. A Gentleman in Moscow
  17. The Nest
  18. State of Terror
  19. Wish You Were Here
  20. We Were Never Here
  21. The Mysterious Benedict Society
  22. The Seven Day Switch
  23. Porch Lies
  24. The Personal Librarian*
  25. Red, White, and Royal Blue
  26. The Art of Gruene
  27. Beautiful World, Where Are You
  28. Big Panda and Tiny Dragon
  29. One Crazy Summer
  30. Dreamer
  31. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
  32. Tanqueray
  33. No Cure For Being Human
  34. The Love Hypothesis
  35. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
  36. Emily Out of Focus
  37. The Gift of an Ordinary Day
  38. Black Beauty
  39. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  40. The Paper Palace
  41. Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One
  42. The Sleeper List
  43. Run Rose Run
  44. Millionaires For the Month
  45. The Paris Apartment
  46. Starfish
  47. Happy-Go-Lucky
  48. Playing With Myself
  49. Long Live the Pumpkin Queen
  50. The Nightingale*
  51. Book Lovers
  52. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
  53. P.S. Be Eleven
  54. Lessons in Chemistry*
  55. Shadow School 1
  56. Lucy by the Sea

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