Nathan and Darby talk about books (again) and important topics like "what is a new year anyway?" We may or may not be late with this segment about our top picks from 2022 (though we are totally early for Nowruz/Persian New Year, so there!).

Our top picks:

• FICTION
  • GENERAL FICTION: A Funny Kind of Paradise by Jo Owens -Victoria author
  • TOP SERIES: The Rockton/Casey Duncan series by Kelley Armstrong -Canadian author
    • Start at the beginning with City of the Lost
  • BEST MYSTERY: The Verifiers by Jane Pek
  • HISTORICAL FICTION: Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen
  • DUAL LITERARY FICTION & TOP BOOK CLUB PICK: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

• GRAPHIC NOVEL MEMOIRS:
  • Ducks: two years in the oil sands by Kate Beaton
  • Our Little Secret: a graphic memoir by Emily Carrington -Gabriola Island author
• NON-FICTION:
  • Adrift: the curious tale of the Lego lost at sea by Tracey Williams
  • The Pocket: a hidden history of women's lives, 1660-1900 by Barbara Burman
  • Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
  • Outer Order, Inner Calm by Gretchen Rubin

• KIDS/JUVENILE NOVEL: The Golden Swift by Lev Grossman (Silver Arrow sequel)