It’s already February and I’m a little late with this, but here’s the list of everything I read in the year 2022:

• The Motel Life – Willy Vlautin
• Frozen – Ann Cleeves
• Cherry Blossoms – Bruce Gilden
• The Perfect Golden Circle – Ben Myers
• Luster – Raven Leilani
• Monsters – Barry Windsor-Smith
• Life For Sale – Yukio Mishima
• The Push Man And Other Stories – Yoshihiro Tatsumi
• Berserk Deluxe Volume One – Kentaro Miura
• The Man On The Street – Trevor Wood
• Abandon The Old In Tokyo – Yoshihiro Tatsumi
• Berserk Deluxe Volume Two – Kentaro Miura
• Good-Bye – Yoshihiro Tatsumi
• Killing Floor – Lee Child
• Berserk Deluxe Volume Three – Kentaro Miura
• Berserk Deluxe Volume Four – Kentaro Miura
• Ten Thousand Apologies – Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi
• Berserk Deluxe Volume Five – Kentaro Miura
• Berserk Deluxe Volume Six – Kentaro Miura
• Eden Eden Eden – Pierre Guyotat
• Criminal Deluxe Volume One – Ed Brubaker
• City On Fire – Don Winslow
• We Own This City – Justin Fenton
• The Gallows Pole – Ben Myers
• Criminal Deluxe Volume Two – Ed Brubaker
• Heaven – Meiko Kawakami
• Hide – Kiersten White
• The Diary Of A Bookseller – Shaun Bythell
• Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata
• The Unauthorised Biography Of Ezra Maas – Daniel James
• Breath – James Nestor
• Paper Girls 2 – Brian K Vaughan
• Paper Girls 3 – Brian K Vaughan
• Paper Girls 4 – Brian K Vaughan
• Paper Girls 5 – Brian K Vaughan
• Paper Girls 6 – Brian K Vaughan
• Red Rising – Pierce Brown
• Seven Kinds Of People You Find In Bookshops – Shaun Bythell
• Hard To Be A God – Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
• Gone To See The River Man – Kristopher Triana
• Beast – Matt Wesolowski
• Deathday – Shaun Hutson
• Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? – Harold Schechter
• A Night In The Lonesome October – Roger Zelazny
• Clown In A Cornfield – Adam Cesare
• The Pallbearers Club – Paul Tremblay
• Dickens And Prince – Nick Hornby
• The Last King Of California – Jordan Harper
• Tender Is The Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica
• Smashed – Junji Ito
• Holy Island – LJ Ross
• Return Of The Living Elves – Brian Asman
• Last Night At The Lobster – Stewart O’Nan
• Halldark Holidays – ed. Gabino Iglesias
• Gullivera – Milo Manara

As you can see, I got through quite a bit last year – a mix of fiction, comic books, manga, biography, non-fiction, etc. As for my favourites, that’s a touch one. It’s a strong list. I guess the standouts would have to be Tender Is The Flesh, Breath, Red Rising, Heaven, The Pallbearers Club, and The Gallows Pole – with a special shoutout to Berserk as a whole so far, of which I’m very much looking forward to reading more of.