Paperback Readers Episode 62

Happy New Year! We’re here to talk to you about our favorite books of 2022, from over 250 that we read and shared with you over the past year. Thanks for being with us for another year, and thank you for talking about books with us!

Our favorite books are listed below. Stay tuned in 2023, as we are planning some changes to the podcast. We’ll keep you posted.

God of the Garden by Andrew Peterson

Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter’s School by Courtney E. Martin

Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working by Shauna Niequist

Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott

Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something—Anything—Like Your Life Depends on It by Tabitha Carvan

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

The Confidence to Write: A Guide for Overcoming Fear and Developing Identity as a Writer by Liz Prather

Southernmost by Silas House

Start With Hello: (And Other Simple Ways to Live as Neighbors) by Shannan Martin

Will the Circle Be Unbroken: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay by Sean Dietrich

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Music Is History by Questlove

The Ninetines: A Book by Chuck Klosterman

Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz

Basketball: A Love Story by Jackie McMullen, et al.

Grant by Ron Chernow

The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood by Jane Leavy

Showtime by Jeff Pearlman

(Demon Copperhead, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, and Booth are repeats)