A few years ago, a growing number of readers asked me to publish a list of books that I read over the previous twelve months that my readers might find entertaining and informative.  After several years. I finally got my act together and started tracking my reading.  Here is my list for 2022.

Fiction

Michael Connelly Desert Star

Karl Ove Knausgaard  My Struggle Vols. I-IV

Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner Heat 2

Walker Percy Lancelot

Daniel Silva Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Non-Fiction

Edward Chancellor The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

Eldridge Colby The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict

David Halberstam Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

Michael Dell Play Nice But Win: A CEO’s Journey From Founder to Leader

Rosh Doshi The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy and the Displacement of American Power

George Friedman The Storm Before the Calm: America’s Discord, The Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

Gary Gerstle The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

Thomas Homer-Dixon Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew in a World in Peril

Ryan Holiday Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue

Nick Timiraos Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled the White House and a Pandemic and Saved the Economy