Well-Read Episode 113 - Our Favorite Books of 2022

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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