#tbr 2022

books im excited abt for 2022 (1/3)

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

I was tagged by @3988akasha to post 9 books I'm hyped to finish or plan to read in 2022.

Thank you so much, I love talking about books, especially the hundreds of those I want to read and will never manage! ;)

I actually made a short-list this year, but we'll see how it goes. (I also never know whether I'll be struggling to read 10 book or breeze through a 100 or anything in between in a given year.)

So, in random order:

Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies by Charles H. Elliott, Laura L. Smith (to finish)

The Gangster (Magic & Stem #2) by C. S. Poe (to finish)

A Gathering of Crones (The Crone Wars #2) by Lydia M. Hawke (to finish)

Munro (IAD #18) by Kresley Cole

The Hungarian by Victoria Dougherty (been on my list for a few years)

The Deep by Alma Katsu (been on my list for a few years)

Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology by Celine Frohn (editor) (to finish)

I am the Chosen King (Saxon #1) by Hellen Hollick (@lglorien, this is now here to shame myself. But it's now been years since I watched that Norman invasion documentary, so I've forgotten enough that I might actually get to it.)

Zgodbe kraljeviča Marka by Fran Milčinski (a dash of Slovene to spice things up :P, I need to read more books in my native tongue, ffs.)

Honourable mentions:

Dance with the Devil (Mercenary Librarians #3) (no cover yet, or it's be up there) by Kit Rocha and

the yet untitled and without a cover #15 in Nalini Singh's Guild Hunter series

The latter two I am the most excited to read this year (or any year, TBH, especially in the case of GH. :D)

Between my Suggested Reading, my wishlist, my backlog and my wish to reread some of my favourites, I already feel completely lost as to where I should start my reading in 2022 and how I should go about it. So I made this!

This is how I‘m going to organize and prioritize my reading this year! Inspired by the 52 Book Challenge (where you read one book per week; theres a subreddit too!) I set my goal at 26 books, so one book every two weeks. (This is incredibly ambitious for me.) To find a balance between all of my planned reads I filled the bingo sheet with prompts and colour-coded them for accessibility and convenience. The >1k prompts are inspired by (and perhaps even for, if theres another opportunity?) the 1k pages readathon by @books-and-cookies , and also because I love long books.

Because I do my reading evaluation mid-december every year I will be doing this challenge in the time between december 20, 2021 and december 20, 2022, not new year! just works better for me.

books im excited about in 2022 (3/3)

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara