Ep. 246 The Best Books of 2022 with Andrew Limbong
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Do you know what sucks really bad? |
| 0:02.3 | Missing out on tickets to the biggest tour of the year. |
| 0:06.8 | Not Taylor Swift, not Beyonce, but the live in the stacks tour. |
| 0:13.3 | We have only three stops left, so you need to grab your tickets now before you have major |
| 0:20.1 | FOMO for the rest of your life. |
| 0:22.7 | I will be in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on Sunday, September 24th. |
| 0:28.0 | I will be in New York City with KSA layman on Monday, September 25th, and you can find |
| 0:32.9 | me for the last stop of the tour on Wednesday, October 18th, with a few special guests which |
| 0:39.3 | we will announce real, real soon. |
| 0:42.2 | I promise you a night of big laps, hot takes, and more bookish conversation than you could |
| 0:47.6 | possibly imagine. |
| 0:49.8 | Tickets are selling fast, so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour and get them before they're gone. |
| 0:57.5 | And I can't wait to see you live in the stacks. |
| 1:10.4 | Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 1:13.3 | I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and it is time for our annual best books of the year episode. |
| 1:19.6 | This year we are joined by Andrew Limbong, who is the host of the wonderful MPR podcast |
| 1:24.3 | book of the day. |
| 1:25.5 | He hails from Brooklyn and is also one of MPR's arts desk reporters, covering all things |
| 1:30.6 | arts and culture. |
| 1:32.0 | Andrew is here to share his top five books of 2022, and I'll be revealing my picks as |
| 1:36.4 | well. |
| 1:37.4 | And in the end, we'll have our final top 10 books of 2022. |
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