Dec 13, 2022
Today we enter the towering stack of “Best Book” lists, but we like to think our annual episode stands out from the crowd. Instead of narrowing down a list of favorites every year, we share superlatives to include a wider variety of genres, themes, and reading experiences in our year end wrap up episode. Check our stories at @novelpairingspod on Instagram for templates to share your 2022 superlatives, and please do not forget to tag us! We would love to see which books you select in each category.
For more superlatives, go to patreon.com/novelpairings. We will share a bonus episode on Friday FULL of more titles we loved this year.
Podcast episodes mentioned:
Maryanne Wolf and Ezra Klein discuss “deep reading”
Buzzy summer 2022 books we both read
Books mentioned:
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and
Tomorrow by
Gabrielle Zevin
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
Search by Michelle Hunevan
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Invisible Storm by Jason Kander
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
A Certain Appeal by Vanessa King
The Long Answer by Anna Hogeland
The Trees by Percival Everett
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Recitatif by Toni Morrison
Have I Told You This Already? By Lauren Graham
Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
These Precious Days by Ann Pachett
Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles
Share your own superlatives! Here’s the list: