As we bid farewell to 2022, let’s take a moment to review our year in reading. The following titles from our browsing collection represent books that were frequently checked out by members of our reading community in the past year. Additionally, a few ZSR librarians and staff members wanted to share their favorite reads in 2022. And, we’d love to hear from you– share your favorite titles from the past year in the comments below!

Browsing book with most checkouts of 2022

• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Frequently checked out browsing books of 2022

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk
• A Carnival of Snackery : Diaries (2003-2020) by David Sedaris
• Atlas of the Heart : Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown
• Bewilderment by Richard Powers
• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
• Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
• The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
• Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe by Brian Greene

** A special thanks to Carol Cramer for gathering the checkout statistics to help us compile this list of books!

ZSR Staff Favorites of 2022

Charles Bombeld

• We Gotta Get Out Of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War by Doug Bradley and Craig Werner
• Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai by Matti Friedman

Lauren Corbett

• High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley
• The Paris Package and Strangers in Venice by A.W. Hartoin

Elizabeth Ellis

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
• Quit Like a Woman by Holly Whitaker
• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Patrick Ferrell

• America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present by John Ghazvinian

Amanda Kaufman

• The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
• House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
• The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Molly Keener

• Matrix by Lauren Groff
• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
• Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
• Book Lovers by Emily Henry
• True Biz by Sara Nović
• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

Mary Beth Lock

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
• Caffeine by Michael Pollan
• Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Tim Pyatt

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
• Taste by Stanley Tucci

Morgan Ritchie-Baum

• Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague by Maggie O’Farrell
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
• The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris
• The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Tova Bailey

Kathy Shields

• Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
• Anxious People by Frederick Bachman
• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Roz Tedford

• The Enigma Affair by Charlie Lovett
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
• She Danced With Lightning by Marc Palmieri

Meghan Webb

• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
• Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
• Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
• Land of Big Numbers: Stories by Te-Ping Chen

Hu Womack

• Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt by Phoebe Zerwick
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman
• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

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