Last year, I averaged one book per week. This year, I managed between two and three per month.
Here is the list of my favorites from 2022 broken down by category:
Investing
Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies (Nik Bhatia).
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy (Stephanie Kelton).
History/Biography
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources (Javier Blas).
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Patrick Radden Keefe)
Flying Blind: Boeing's Max Tragedy and the Lost Soul of an American Icon (Peter Robison).
Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization (Iain Gately).
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization (Graham Hancock).
Disruption: Inside the Largest Counterterrorism Investigation in History (Aki J. Peritz).
Science
The Order of Time (Carlo Rovelli).
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment (Robert Wright).
You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation (Paul A. Offit).
Self-Development
Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact (Phil M. Jones).
Fiction
The Secret History (Donna Tartt).
Verity (Colleen Hoover).
The Millennium series (the first three by Stieg Larsson).