Episode description
Episode description
We’re finishing 2022 on a strong note by talking about our favorite books of 2022! We cover our favorite reads spanning 6 different categories, and play voicemails from YOU about your favorite books!
Favorite Book Club Pick
Olivia: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Becca: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, You Made a Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Listeners: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult, Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Favorite Romance
Olivia: Book Lovers by Emily Henry, Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Becca: Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Listeners: Every Summer After by Carley Fortune, Thank you for Listening by Julia Whelan, A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera, After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez
Favorite Mystery, Thriller, or Suspense
Olivia: Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
Becca: Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
Favorite Literary Fiction
Olivia: Fellowship Point by Alice Elliot Dark, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Becca: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close
Listeners: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
Favorite Wildcard
Olivia: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Becca: The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E Smith, The ARC by Tory Henwood Hoen
Listeners: Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by
Angela Chen, I’m Glad my Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, The Wreckage of my Presence by Casey Wilson, The Selection by Kiera Cass
Favorite Book of the Year
Olivia: We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
Becca: This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
Listeners: Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, Babel by R.F. Kuang, Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
More Listener Reccomendations!!!
Human Kind: a Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman, A Promised Land by Barack Obama, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel, Heartless by Elise Silver, Fool Hearts by Emmy Sanders, Maggie Moves On by Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score, Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C Ford.
Obsessions:
Becca: Basking in glow of christmas tree lights
Olivia: For the Love of Pickles Facebook Group
What we read this week!
Olivia: Scandalized by Ivy Owens, These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Villa by Rachel Hawkins, Fellowship Point by Alice Elliot Dark
Becca: The Christmas Wish by Lindsey Kelk
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