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2022
My Year in Books
36,483
pages read
Brendan (History Nerds United)
103
books read
Brendan (History Nerds United)
Harbinger by Shelley Puhak
Shortest Book
80
pages
The Pope at War by David I. Kertzer
Longest Book
623
pages
Average book length in 2022
354
pages
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Most Shelved
2,158,549
people also shelved
Death by Fire and Ice by Mr. Brian O'Connor
Least Shelved
14
people also shelved
Brendan’s average rating for 2022
4.3
4.3
Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.45 average
Judgment Ridge by Dick Lehr

Brendan’s first review of the year

it was amazing
The only thing worse than a hormonal teenager is a hormonal teenager with too much free time. Generally, it usually leads to a litany of petty crimes and binge drinking. In this case, it led to the murder of two beloved professors for… basically no reason whatsoever.

What makes Judgment Ridge a bit different from other true crimes books is the way the killers are slowly revealed. Not their identities, you know them from the beginning of the book. ...more
BRENDAN’S 2022 BOOKS
Judgment Ridge by Dick Lehr
it was amazing
The Fighting Bunch by Chris DeRose
Charlotte Brontë by Claire Harman
White Hot Hate by Dick Lehr
Freedom on Trial by Scott Farris
Deep Conviction by Steven T. Collis
The Halifax Explosion by Ken Cuthbertson
Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown
Born to Be Hanged by Keith Thomson
The Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons by Paul Hill
A Flick of Sunshine by Alexander Jackson Hill
it was amazing
Who Killed Jane Stanford? by Richard White
Hitler’s Boy Soldiers by Helene Munson
Madam by Debby Applegate
My Mother's War by Eva Taylor
Diamonds and Deadlines by Betsy Prioleau
Liberty’s Chain by David N. Gellman
The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate
The School that Escaped the Nazis by Deborah Cadbury
Wise Gals by Nathalia Holt
The Moors Murderers by Chris Cook
Death by Fire and Ice by Mr. Brian O'Connor
Conan Doyle for the Defense by Margalit Fox
it was amazing
Valor by Dan Hampton
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott
The Dark Queens by Shelley Puhak
The Fairy Tellers by Nicholas Jubber
Pirate Queens by Rebecca Alexandra Simon
The Pope at War by David I. Kertzer
it was amazing
Rebels at Sea by Eric Jay Dolin
American Demon by Daniel Stashower
The Sewing Girl's Tale by John Wood Sweet
The Castleton Massacre by Sharon Anne Cook
All That Is Wicked by Kate Winkler Dawson
Retail Gangster by Gary Weiss
We Carry Their Bones by Erin Kimmerle
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Riley Black
it was amazing
White Knights in the Black Orchestra by Tom Dunkel
The Scandalous Hamiltons by Bill Shaffer
Spare Parts by Paul Craddock
Agent Josephine by Damien Lewis
Nothing but the Night by Greg King
Empire of Ice and Stone by Buddy Levy
The Red Widow by Sarah Horowitz
The Lighthouse of Stalingrad by Iain MacGregor
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please by Tom Segura
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
it was amazing
The Black Joke by A.E. Rooks
The Ghosts That Haunt Me by Steve Ryan
Inventing the It Girl by Hilary A. Hallett
In the Mouth of the Wolf by Katherine Corcoran
The Lion and the Fox by Alexander Rose
The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris
The Great Stewardess Rebellion by Nell McShane Wulfhart
Black Snow by James M. Scott
it was amazing
The Pirate's Wife by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
Harbinger by Shelley Puhak
The Last Hill by Bob Drury
Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna
Woman, Captain, Rebel by Margaret Willson
Deadly Triangle by Susan Goldenberg
The Rebel and the Kingdom by Bradley Hope
Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
American Midnight by Adam Hochschild
Operation Underworld by Matthew Black
River of the Gods by Candice Millard
it was amazing
The Vortex by Scott Carney
N-4 Down by Mark Piesing
Sinkable by Daniel Stone
The Real-Life Murder Clubs by Nicola Stow
The Revolutionary by Stacy Schiff
The Red Planet by Simon Morden
Hanged in Medicine Hat by Nathan M. Greenfield
American Mother by Gregg Olsen
it was amazing
The Necessary Journey by Ella F. Washington
España by Giles Tremlett
Ghosts of the Orphanage by Christine Kenneally
The Confidante by Christopher C. Gorham
A Billion Years by Mike Rinder
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
There Will Be Fire by Rory Carroll
Comet Madness by Richard J. Goodrich
Dünkirchen 1940 by Robert Kershaw
it was amazing
Bellamy's Bride by Kathleen Brunelle
Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus by H.H. Leonards
Our Man in Tokyo by Steve Kemper
Empress of the Nile by Lynne Olson
Walk Through Fire by Yasmine S. Ali
Koresh by Stephan Talty
Heaven on the Hudson by Stephanie Azzarone
The Watchmaker's Daughter by Larry Loftis
Vanished in Vermillion by Lou Raguse
it was amazing
The Wager by David Grann
Gangbuster by Alan Prendergast
Revolutionary Roads by Bob Thompson
Baseball at the Abyss by Dan Taylor
Benghazi! by Ethan Chorin
The Summer of 1876 by Chris Wimmer
The Angel Makers by Patti McCracken
Crooked by Nathan Masters

Brendan’s last review of the year

it was amazing
These days, the news will have you believe every new political scandal is the biggest one ever and something like this has never happened before. Well, then come meet disgraced Attorney General Harry Daugherty!

Crooked by Nathan Masters is all about the epic take down of Daugherty by Senator Burton Wheeler in the 1920s. By itself, this is already a great story of a new senator taking on an entrenched political animal with the power of what would b ...more
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Brendan (History Nerds United) read 103 out of 80 books.
 
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