NPR Arts Desk reporter and Book of the Day podcast host Andrew Limbong joins The Stacks to count down his five favorite books of 2022. Traci shares her own list, making it our official top ten of the year. We also get into the trends we saw throughout 2022, and what we’re looking forward to in 2023.
The Stacks Book Club selection for December is True Biz by Sarah Nović. We will discuss the book on December 28th with Greta Johnsen.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- Book of the Day (NPR)
- All Things Considered (NPR)
- Tell Me More (NPR)
- Culture Desk (NPR)
- William Faulkner
- Books We Love (NPR)
- Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
- “Ep. 195 The Best Books of 2021 with Lupita Aquino Morgan Hoit” (The Stacks)
- “The 10 Best Books of 2022” (The New York Times)
- The National Book Award finalists
- The Love Songs of W. E. B. DuBois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
- How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
- Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
- “Ottessa Moshfegh’s Otherworldly Fiction” (New Yorker)
- Quentin Tarantino
- BookTok
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- “How TikTok Became a Best-Seller Machine” (Elizabeth A. Harris, The New York Times)
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- His Name is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
- The Washington Post
- Derek Chauvin
- Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott
- Elite Capture by Olúfémi O. Táíwò
- Simu Liu
- “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” (Destin Daniel Cretton, 2021)
- Kevin Feige
- Shine Bright by Danyel Smith
- Whitney Houston
- Aretha Franklin
- Gladys Knight
- Janet Jackson
- Diana Ross
- The Supremes
- Shine Bright Playlist (Sharda on Spotify)
- Bobby Brown
- A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib
- Luda by Grant Morrison
- We3 by Grant Morrison
- Hacks (HBOMax)
- Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones
- Pulse nightclub shooting
- Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
- The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
- Ducks by Kate Beaton
- Hark, a Vagrant! by Kate Beaton
- South to America by Imani Perry
- The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- “Imani Perry accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for South to America“
- Toni Morrison
- Firing Line with William F. Buckley (PBS)
- Breathe by Imani Perry
- “Ep. 122 Breathe by Imani Perry — The Stacks Book Club (Kiese Laymon)” (The Stacks)
- Ringmaster by Abraham Riesman
- True Believer by Abraham Riesman
- “The Creator of Doctor Strange Will Not See You Now” (Abraham Riesman, Vulture)
- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
- “The Stacks Most Anticipated Books of 2023” (Traci Thomas, shereads.com)
- The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
- Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
- Above Ground by Clint Smith
- A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
- Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah
- The Riders Come Out at Night by Ali Winston
- Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
- Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
- The Pulitzer Prizes
- “In ‘You Gotta Be You,’ Brandon Kyle Goodman says we should embrace who we are” (Book of the Day, NPR)
- “Two writers on friendships and how they shape us feat Kamilah Shamsie” (Book of the Day, NPR)
- Ailsa Chang at NPR
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