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Book Riot - The Podcast

Our Favorite Books of 2022

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News, Books, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about their favorite books of 2022. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Flying Solo by Linda Holmes Song of the Cell by Sidhartha Mukherjee Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado The Candy House by Jennifer Egan To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman Heartbreak by Florence Williams Post-Traumatic by Chantal Johnson Solito by Javier Zamora Stay True by Hua Hsu In the Early Times by Tad Friend Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah Inciting Joy by Ross Gay Liberation Day by George Saunders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:27.7

This is the Book Ride Podcast. It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.

0:38.0

And this is... I mean, in a lot of places that's their big show of the year we don't really think of it this way weirdly Rebecca

0:46.0

it's our favorite books of 2022 I don't know what our big show of the year is but

0:51.2

because we're just two people it's not like the New York Times or something like that

0:56.0

where we have a copious staff and a highly produced interactive widget or anything.

1:00.8

It's just our favorite books of the year for 2022 I guess we

1:07.5

haven't talked about organization how many we're picking I'm going to use my

1:10.6

heuristic where I get to pick one out of every 10 books I've read.

1:14.2

So I've got 14 at this point.

1:16.3

I don't know how many you have.

1:18.3

Before we get started, we'll do a sponsor break.

1:21.6

Goodyear and reading, the New York Times book 10 best books of the list came out and

1:26.2

you were very charitable to text me and make me feel better about my existential crisis

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