My 2022 Book Tally – A new record and my top 5!

/ Shakeel Nurmahi

Every year I set myself the aspirational goal of reading 52 books a year, that is a book a week. I have set this goal every year for 6 years in a row, getting closer each year, but still quite far off. In 2020 and 2021 I read 27 books, which was a notable increase on the 22 books in 2019. But in 2022 I managed to really push myself beyond 2021 to a total of 37 books in 2022.

You can see my complete list of what I read below, but I wanted to share with you what my top 5 books of 2022 were.

  1. A Burning in my Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene Peterson – Winn Collier
  2. Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
  3. The Right Kind of Girl – Anita Rani
  4. Friendship and the Body of Christ – The Archbishops’ Council
  5. Billy Summers – Stephen King

  1. Clary, Julian. The Bolds. London: Anderson Press, 2015. <1st January 2022>
  2. Osman, Richard. The Thursday Murder Club. London: Viking, 2020. <18th January 2022>
  3. Tidball, Derek J. Builders and Fools: Leadership the Bible Way. Leicester: IVP, 1999. <4th February 2022>
  4. Allen, David. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. New edition. London: Penguin, 2015. <7th February 2022>
  5. Rajo, Sanjay David. Growing a Cross-Cultural Church: The Possibility of Culturally Specific Evangelism Within a Multicultural Church. (MA Dissertation). Moorlands College, 2021. <10th February 2022>
  6. Collier, Winn. A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message. Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook, 2021. <12th February 2022>
  7. Knight, Phil. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike. London: Simon and Schuster UK, 2016. <24th February 2022>
  8. Ten Boom, Corrie and John and Elizabeth Sherrill. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1971. <2nd March 2022>
  9. Williams, Rowan. Being Human: Bodies, Minds and Persons. London: SPCK, 2018. <5th March 2022>
  10. Fry, Stephen. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold. London: Penguin, 2018. <20th March 2022>
  11. Comer, John Mark. Loveology: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. And the never-ending story of male and female. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2014. <24th March 2022>
  12. Prime, Derek J. A Good Old Age: An A to Z of Loving and Following the Lord Jesus in Later Years. Leyland: 10 Publishing, 2017. <29th March 2022>
  13. McKnight, Scott and Barringer, Laura. Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2020. <11th April 2022>
  14. Newport, Cal. Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology. London: Penguin Books, 2019. <24th April 2022>
  15. Carle, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. London: Puffin Books, 2018. <28th April 2022>
  16. Cone, James. Black Theology and Black Power. New York, NY: Orbis Books, 1997. <1st June 2022>
  17. Croft, Adam. What Lies Beneath. Scarborough: Black Canon Publishing, 2021. <9th June 2022>
  18. Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. <15th June 2022>
  19. Tomkinson, Raymond. Everyday Prayer: Sustaining Everyday Faith. GB: Amazon, 2022. <24th June 2022>
  20. Benjamin, Robinson C. The Mission Colony Tarn Taran: The Story. 2021. <25th June 2022>
  21. Thorne, Clive. Light Out of Darkness. 2007. <25th June 2022>
  22. Welby, Justin. Dethroning Mammon: Making Money Serve Grace: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2017. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. <14th July 2022>
  23. Brooks, David. The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life. New York: Random House Publishing, 2019. <21st July 2022>
  24. Wang, Phil. Sidesplitter: How To Be From Two Worlds At Once. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2021. <7th August 2022>
  25. Lefteri, Christy. The Beekeeper of Aleppo. London: Zaffre, 2020. <24th August 2022>
  26. King, Stephen. Billy Summers. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2021. <30th August 2022>
  27. Rani, Anita. The Right Sort Of Girl. London: Blink Publishing, 2022. <16th September 2022>
  28. Little, Jane. My Patients and Me: Fifty Years of General Practice. London: Create Space Independent Publishing, 2017. <7th October 2022>
  29. Isaacson, Walter. Steve Jobs. London: Little Brown, 2011. <2nd November 2022>
  30. The Archbishops’ Council. To Proclaim Afresh. London: Church House Publishing, 2022. <4th November 2022>
  31. The Archbishops’ Council. Listening in Love and Faith. London: Church House Publishing, 2022. <10th November 2022>
  32. Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. London: Vintage, 1996. <18th November 2022>
  33. Simants, Michael. The Wesleyan Quadrilateral: The Historical Development, Contemporary Uses, Critiques, And An Idea For Future Research Of A Tool For Theological Reflection. (MA Dissertation). St John’s College, University of Durham, 2021. <18th November 2022>
  34. The Archbishops’ Council. The Living in Love Faith Course Booklet. London: Church House Publishing, 2020. <5th December 2022>
  35. The Archbishops’ Council. Friendship and the Body of Christ: A Living in Love and Faith resource for reflection and conversation. London: Church House Publishing, 2022. <7th December 2022>
  36. Croft, Stephen. Together in Love and Faith: Personal Reflections and Next Steps for the Church. Hook Norton: KMS Litho, 2022. <17th December 2022>
  37. Stone, Selina. ‘If it Wasn’t for God’: A Report on the Well-being of Global Majority Heritage Clergy in the Church of England. London: The Archbishops’ Council, 2022. <26th December 2022>

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