Tana and I *love* to recap our year in books, and we're happy to share our favorites this year, with emphasis on books that aren't getting talked about enough.

Discussed:

Lion Women of Tehran, by Marjan Kamali

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, by Kylie Lee Baker

This Motherless Land, by Nikki May

The Everlasting, by Alix E. Harrow

The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans

Symphony of Monsters, by Marc Levy

Emperor of Gladness, by Ocean Vuong

Transplants, by Daniel Tam-Claiborne

I See You've Called In Dead, by John Kenney

The Lamb, by Lucy Rose

Heart the Lover, by Lily King

Long Bright River, by Liz Moore

Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy

Play Nice, by Rachel Harrison

How to Read a Book, by Monica Wood

Graceview Patient, by Caitlin Starling

My Friends, Fredrik Backman

So Far Gone, by Jess Walter

King of Ashes, by S.A. Cosby

Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones

The Last Thing He Told Me, by Laura Dave

The First Time I Saw Him, by Laura Dave

Possession of Alba Diaz, by Isabel Cañas

Vampires of El Norte, by Isabel Cañas

The Hacienda, by Isabel Cañas

September House, by Carissa Orlando

This Book Made Me Think of You, by Libby Page

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, by Grady Hendrix

Astral Library, by Kate Quinn

Books by Annelise Ryan

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, by V.E. Schwab