The Awesome Collection of 50 Books for My 2022

I want to live a more productive and happier life by reading more books this year.

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With the change of years, we always make various lofty new lists goals that we often miss to follow. Our goals and commitment sometimes are hard to follow because we are so unrealistic in devising them.

But I have tried to be quite realistic in keeping my list of books for 2022.

I know 50 books would be a little more for me because I have to see other things in life as well. I am a husband, dad, and son myself, and I also do freelancing and my 9–5 job.

I divided these 50 books into fiction and non-fiction categories. I hope it will pique your interest as well. Here is the list:

List of Fiction Books

1. The Plague by Alber Camus
2. The Trial by Franz Kafka
3. Candide by Voltaire
4. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
5. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
6. Dead Soul by Nikolai Gogol
7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
8. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
9. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
10. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
11. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
12. The Book Theif by Markus Zusak
13. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
14. The Forty Rules of Love by female Turkish author Elif Shafak
15. Red Bird by Muhammad Hanif
16. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
17. The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
18. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
19. Notes from the End of Everything by the best writer Robert Pantano
20. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
21. Their Eyes were Watching God by American best-selling author and filmmaker Zora Neale Hurston
22. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
23. The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
24. Origin by Dan Brown
25. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Joanne Kathleen Rowling
26. The Memory Theatre by Karin Tidbeck
27. The Story of O by Pauline Reage
28. Dune by Frank Herbert
29. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapowski
30. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
31. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
32. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

List of Non-Fiction Books

1. Azadi by Arundhati Roy
2. 12 Rules of Life by Jordan B. Peterson
3. The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
4. A Short History of Everything by Bill Bryson
5. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
6. Sapiens: Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
7. Brief Answer to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawkings
8. The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
9. Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
10. The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
11. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S. Sharma
12. Directorate S by Steve Coll
13. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
14. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
15. Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven
16. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
17. Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl
18. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

I have selected these books for my 2022 because I have read and heard about them. Many of these books are recommended by my friends, and I have already bought a few books on the list and have started reading them.

I read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The Forty Rules of Love, and The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak. Both of them are excellent writers and represent their cultures more significantly.

Achebe has poured out his heart in his book Things Fall Apart. I have never read a cultural story with much more significant insights like this. He has wrapped his cultural tale in a beautiful and mesmerizing language that one can’t put down the book until one finishes it.

Elif Shafak also represents the life and culture of Turkish people from a broader perspective. She has mostly dealt with women’s plight in the male-dominated society.

I hope to read the others soon and come to you with more significant insights. You can also add to your reading bucket from the above list.