Our Books Year in Review 1-4-23

We got together on the first day of 2023 to review our top books of 2022 and we’re already busy reading books to discuss this year. Time was too short to talk about all of our favorite books but you can see a full list of our 5 star reads from 2022 as well as a list of all the books we mention in this episode on our website at perksofbeingabooklover.com.

Our year in review episode is always fun because we ask our guests from the past 12 months to tell us about their favorite book. It brings back great memories to hear all their voices again.

Books mentioned in this episode:

1- Babel by RF Kuang

2- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

3- The Stone Loves the World by Brian Hall

4- I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall

5- Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman

6- Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone

7- The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple by Ben Aitken

8- The Broken Earth series by N. K. Jemisin

9- Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia

10- Where I Can’t Follow by Ashley Blooms

11- Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

12- Odin’s Child by Siri Pettersen

13- The Monsters of Rookhaven by Padraig Kenny

14- The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborthy

15- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab

16- Gallant by VE Schwab

17- The Nightmare Man by JH Markert

18- Devolution by Max Brooks

19- Leech by Hiron Ennes

20- Finna by Nino Cipri

21- Defekt by Nino Cipri

22- Morning Glory Milking Farm (Cambric Creek) by CM Nascosta

22- Sweet Berries (Cambric Creek) by CM Nascosta

23- How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith

24- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

25- Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class by Dan Canon

26- Ban This Book by Alan Gratz

27- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

28- Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

29- The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo

30- The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

31- When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

32- The Storyteller - Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

33- What’s So Funny? A Cartoonist’s Memoir by David Sipress

35- Girl at War by Sara Nović

36- Haven by Emma Donoghue

37- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

38- Champagne Widows (Veuve Clicquot) by Rebecca Rosenberg

39- The Guncle by Steven Rowley

40 - Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

41- Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby

42- Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham

43- How to Fake It in Hollywood by Ava Wilder

44- The Dance of Time: The Origins of the Calendar by Michael Judge

45- Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet

46- Thistlefoot by Jenna Rose Nethercott

47- Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

48- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Movie - Nightmare Alley ( 2022)

App - Storygraph