I spent a lot of time not reading this year. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to, or that the books that crossed my path this year were unreadable. If anything, it was the opposite. This year was filled to the brim with absolutely marvelous books, so much so that I became unable to read a book because to choose one meant that I wasn’t choosing another.

So as I sit here trying to organize my thoughts (and failing, see paragraphs 1&2) about my favorite reads of 2022, my focus keeps shifting to all the ways I consumed books this year beyond reading them.

And thus, I give you, my favorite book-ish experiences of 2022