sophronisba's
2022
Reading Wrap-Up

sophronisba finished reading 166 books, across 60,722 pages!

First book
Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485 by John Julius Norwich

Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485
Last book
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes

sophronisba's 2022 StoryGraph

A mood map of sophronisba's reading

Lighter books push the line up and darker books pull the line down

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sophronisba engaged in introspective musings, uncovered a wealth of knowledge, and traversed landscapes of the heart.

The narratives flowed at a comfortable, engaging tempo.

Books and pages read per month in 2022

Line chart showing books and pages read each month in 2022. The data for books read per year are as follows: January - 21 books, February - 18 books, March - 16 books, April - 14 books, May - 13 books, June - 15 books, July - 13 books, August - 18 books, September - 11 books, October - 15 books, November - 11 books, December - 8 books. The data for pages read per year are as follows: January - 6942 pages, February - 6303 pages, March - 4877 pages, April - 4889 pages, May - 5374 pages, June - 5712 pages, July - 4553 pages, August - 7525 pages, September - 4681 pages, October - 5824 pages, November - 4293 pages, December - 2982 pages.
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The genres sophronisba spent the most time with in 2022

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The Cider House Rules by John Irving

The Cider House Rules

John Irving

Longest book
973 pages
Shortest book
152 pages
In Concrete by Anne Garréta

In Concrete

Anne Garréta

The average length of the books sophronisba read was 374 pages and it took them around 5 days to finish each book!

Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485 by John Julius Norwich

Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485

John Julius Norwich

Least time spent
3 days
Most time spent
8 days
Henry IV by Chris Given-Wilson

Henry IV

Chris Given-Wilson

The authors sophronisba spent the most time with in 2022

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2022's average rating was...

4.05

Looks like they know how to pick them!

2022 5reads

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Trust by Hernán Díaz
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism by Joanna Scutts, Joanna Scutts
Doctor Thorne by Julian Fellowes, Anthony Trollope, Simon Dentith
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Lessons by Ian McEwan

sophronisba's 2022 ratings

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Some months were better than others...

August

Highest average rating
4.28

Turns out June wasn't sophronisba's favorite month, with an average rating of 3.87.

August

Most pages read
7525 pages

Other StoryGraph users and sophronisba's 2022 reads

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

One Last Stop

Casey McQuiston

Most shelved
132,629 users
sophronisba's rating: 4.5
Northern Shores: A History of the Baltic Sea and its Peoples by Alan Warwick Palmer

Northern Shores: A History of the Baltic Sea and its Peoples

Alan Warwick Palmer

Least shelved
4 users
sophronisba's rating: 3.5
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

Highest rated
4.77
sophronisba's rating: 5.0

sophronisba explored the works of 101 new authors, including Elizabeth von Arnim, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Jennifer Close!

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Henry V by Christopher Allmand

25 of the books sophronisba read were part of a series.

sophronisba revisited a total of 11 books this year.

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith

sophronisba decided not to finish 3 of the books they picked up this year.

sophronisba read 116 books from their own shelves this year!

Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century by Stephen Galloway
Plus

Compared to 2021...

Number of books

Increased by 11%

Number of pages

Increased by 13%

sophronisba's mood map compared to their friends...

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sophronisba's personal 2022 reading experience

Charts generated from sophronisba's reviews

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Components of sophronisba's highest-rated reads

Moods: inspiring, funny, reflective

Pace: fast

Book type: nonfiction

Genres: Self Help, Science, Speculative Fiction

Story style: character-driven

Characters: loveable, well-developed

2022 at a glance

Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485 by John Julius Norwich
Nervous System by Lina Meruane
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Moon and the Mars by Kia Corthron
The Vixen by Francine Prose
Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 by Dan Jones
Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
All's Well by Mona Awad
Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan
Nervous System by Lina Meruane
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381 by R.H. Hilton
The Trees by Percival Everett
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho
Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
The Confession of Copeland Cane by Keenan Norris
The Hundred Years War: A People's History by David Green
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster by Alison Weir
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Henry IV by Chris Given-Wilson
Northern Shores: A History of the Baltic Sea and its Peoples by Alan Warwick Palmer
In Concrete by Anne Garréta
1381: The Year of the Peasants' Revolt by Juliet Barker
Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen
Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North by Robert Ferguson
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser
Subdivision by J. Robert Lennon
Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh
The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture by Adam Zamoyski
The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages by Miri Rubin
Henry IV: The Righteous King by Ian Mortimer
Free Love by Tessa Hadley
Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War by Peter Conradi
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price
Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England by Juliet Barker
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World by Nancy Marie Brown
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy, Ralph Lister
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
Henry V by Christopher Allmand
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain by Trevor Royle
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
French Braid by Anne Tyler
Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry by Robert Kanigel
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia by Timothy Frye
Henry VI by Bertram Wolffe
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric by Veronica Buckley
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King
Conquest by Juliet Barker
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia by Anne Garrels
The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution by Alex Storozynski
Margaret of Anjou: Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England by Helen E. Maurer
Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century by Stephen Galloway
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Edward IV by Charles Derek Ross
A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris
The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil by Tina Brown
Richard III by Charles Ross
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn
Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories by Gish Jen
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
Blood Sisters:The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses by Sarah Gristwood
Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends on It by Chloe Maxmin, Canyon Woodward
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky by Andrew D. Kaufman
Extreme North: A Cultural History by Bernd Brunner
The Last King of Poland by Adam Zamoyski
Trust by Hernán Díaz
Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation by David Horspool
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash Kapur
Strindberg: A Life by Sue Prideaux
New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 by Susan Brigden
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch by Nicola Tallis
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
Henry VII by S.B. Chrimes
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell by Tim Miller
Love Marriage by Monica Ali
Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen by Amy Licence
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile by Andrew Lownie
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
Nuclear Family by Joseph Han
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII's True Wife by Amy Licence
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
Hollywood Ending : Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence by Ken Auletta
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of the Wrongs of Men--and the Rights of Women by John Sweet
Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism by Joanna Scutts, Joanna Scutts
Doctor Thorne by Julian Fellowes, Anthony Trollope, Simon Dentith
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War by Helen Rappaport
The Manticore by Robertson Davies
Henry VIII by J.J. Scarisbrick
Mrs. March by Virginia Feito
Revival Season by Monica West
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women by Antonia Fraser
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
In One Person by John Irving
Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
There Is Nothing for You Here: Opportunity in an Age of Decline by Fiona Hill
The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation by Peter Marshall
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: 'the Most Happy' by Eric Ives
Dele Weds Destiny by Tomi Obaro
Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
Wolsey: The Life of King Henry VIII's Cardinal by John Matusiak
Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn by Retha M. Warnicke
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
Lessons by Ian McEwan
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager
Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris by Mark Braude
The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love by Elizabeth Norton
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
Thomas Cranmer by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Ocean State by Stewart O'Nan
The Magic Kingdom by Russell Banks
The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood by Julian Rubinstein
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge

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