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Well-Read Episode 113 - Our Favorite Books of 2022

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Our favorite episode of the year, full of our favorite books of the year. Happy New Year from your friends at Well-Read!

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Ann’s picks:

  • The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings (buy from Bookshop)
- N.K. Jemisen books
- Marlon James books
  • Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang (buy from Bookshop)
  • Book Lovers by Emily Henry (buy from Bookshop)
  • The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill (buy from Bookshop)
    • - Anthony Horowitz books
  • Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean (buy from Bookshop)
  • Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson (buy from Bookshop)
  • Small Angels by Lauren Owen (buy from Bookshop)
  • The It Girl by Ruth Ware (buy from Bookshop)
    • - Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister (buy from Bookshop)
  • The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood (buy from Bookshop)
  • Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith (buy from Bookshop)

    • Halle’s picks:

    • Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monahan (buy from Bookshop)
  • The Verifiers by Jane Pek (buy from Bookshop)
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (buy from Bookshop)
    • - Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin (buy from Bookshop)
    - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (buy from Bookshop)
    - Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (buy from Bookshop)
  • We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman (buy from Bookshop)
  • Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (buy from Bookshop)
    • - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (buy from Bookshop)
  • The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays by C.J. Hauser (buy from Bookshop)
    • - "The Crane Wife" by C.J. Hauser (essay from The Paris Review)
  • All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir (buy from Bookshop)
  • Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (buy from Bookshop)
  • Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (buy from Bookshop)
    • - Julia (TV)
    - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV)
  • Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (buy from Bookshop)
    • - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towels (buy from Bookshop)
    - The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert (buy from Bookshop)

    What We’re Reading This Week:

    • Ann: Look Closer by David Ellis (buy from Bookshop)
  • Halle: Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn (buy from Bookshop)

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