Hallie and Pam review their 2022 stats, reflect on their book goals, and pick bookish superlatives.


Books mentioned, in order:
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
I’ll Be Gone In the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
Severance by Ling Ma
The Overstory by Richard Powers
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
Search by Michelle Huneven
Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
Down Days by Ilze Hugo
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals by Sy Montgomery
A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell
The Project by Courtney Summers
Mrs. Death Mrs. Death by Salena Godden
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Littlebadger
Not Your Sidekick by C. B. Lee
The Ghost In the House by Sara O’Leary
Good Omens by Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman
Useless Magic by Florence Welch
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Reprieve by James Han Mattson
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Maid by Nita Prose
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Demon Copperhead by Barabra Kingsolver
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
The Colony by Audrey Magee
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
I’m the Girl by Courtney Summers
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

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22 Dec 2022