Minisode: Our Show Regulars' Top 5 of 2022
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Today’s minisode has an additional top 5 list to add to your 2023 TBRs! We’ve got Mindy, Mary, and Roxanna here with their favorite books of 2022, and their conversation is not-to-be-missed! These three had the best time chatting together without any hosts, and we’re so grateful to Mindy for pulling this episode together behind-the-scenes!
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How we chose our lists
Top 5 for each of the Show Regulars:
When Stars are Scattered by Omar Mohammad (Roxanna #5)
Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau (Mary #5ish)
Season 4, Episode 44 Book Hypnotism + Family Vacation Book Club
Cover Story by Susan Rigetti (Mindy #5)
Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale
Bookish Friend Morgan Tallman @literallyreaadingmor
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree (Roxanna #4)
Bookish Friend Betsie @bookishbetsie
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree ALSO (Mary #4)
Angelica Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne (Mary’s Superlative: Most Surprising Book)
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Mindy #4)
Bookish Friend Joy Stallworth @joyinabook
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur by Alka Joshi (Roxanna #3)
Season 4, Episode 41 Tandem Watch and Read + All Things Roxanna
The Ogress and the Orphan by Kelly Barnhill (Mary #3ish)
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Address Unknown by Katherine Kressman Taylor (Mindy #3)
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield (Roxanna #2)
Season 5, Episode 4 Our Books as a Gauge + Reading the World
The Bromance Book Club series by Lyssa Kay Adams (Mary #2ish)
Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau ALSO (Mindy #2)
Forty Autumns by Nina Willner (Mindy’s superlative: Most Surprising Book)
Babel by R.F. Kuang (Roxanna #1)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett (Mary #1ish)
A Court of Thorn and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
The Winners by Fredrik Backman (Mindy #1)
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
Mindy’s trip to meet Fredrik Backman thanks to Bookish Friends
Season 5, Episode 11 The Magic of Bookish Friends + Reading with Guests Around
Season 5, Episode 22 Our Top Ten Reads of 2022!
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Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram
Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a currently reading bonus episode. |
| 0:14.3 | We have such a treat for you today, so get ready. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm Mindy Browse, homeschooler, and mom to seven, living in the mountains outside Albuquerque |
| 0:22.7 | New Mexico, and figure out my top books of the year is so difficult that I wish they |
| 0:28.1 | could talk to me to help me figure out, to remind me of everything they brought me. |
| 0:32.6 | I love that, and I am Mary Heim, therapist and mom of one living in Wisconsin, and y'all, |
| 0:38.2 | it was truly a battle royale between my top ten books to whittle this list in half, |
| 0:44.4 | but I am so excited to share these books with you today, and hear all about yours. |
| 0:48.6 | Hi, all. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm Roxana Casancara, a mom, a marketer, and a food reader living in Toronto, Ontario, |
| 0:55.4 | Canada. |
| 0:56.4 | And I just say that I'm most excited about hearing both of your top five lists live. |
| 1:02.5 | I have some great books to talk about too, so let's do this. |
| 1:06.1 | All right, regulars. |
| 1:07.1 | I also can't wait to hear your list. |
| 1:10.2 | Before we get into that, how about we each share, you know, kind of the way our method |
| 1:15.3 | on the method to our madness on choosing our top books, you know, because everyone does |
| 1:19.9 | this a little differently, so how do you do this, Roxana? |
| 1:24.5 | Okay, so that's a great question, Mindy. |
| 1:27.0 | So my top five are really a combination of front list and back list. |
| 1:30.6 | They're set all over the world, and even out of this world, actually, one of them. |
| 1:35.2 | For me, my top five is full of my favorite books of the year, and a favorite book is one |
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