The Books That Most Surprised Me in 2022

On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are sharing our top ten reads of 2022! Can you guess where we overlap? This is a GREAT stack of books and we are so thrilled to share it with you.

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!

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2:31 - Currently Reading Patreon

6:41 - Send your questions for Meredith and Roxanna to currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com by JANUARY 4

7:09 - Our 2022 Reading Recap

13:00 - CR Season 5: Episode 20

18:11 - NetGalley

25:23 - Kindle Oasis

27:25 - Book Darts

29:02 - Murder at Black Oaks by Philip Margolin (Meredith's lowest rated read)

29:13 - The Harbor by Katrina Engberg (Meredith's 2nd lowest rated read)

29:58 - Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein (Kaytee's lowest rated read)

30:05 - PangoBooks

30:36 - The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye (Kaytee's 2nd lowest rated read)

33:50 - Our Top Ten Ranked Reads of 2022

33:58 - Death in the Family by Tessa Wegert (Meredith)

35:04 - Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (Kaytee)

35:21 - Circe by Madeline Miller

35:22 - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

35:23 - The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

36:11 - The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Meredith)

37:21 - World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Kaytee)

38:37 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett (Meredith)

40:59 - Breathe and Count Back From Ten by Natalia Sylvester (Kaytee)

41:04 - CR Season 5: Episode 14

42:41 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher (Meredith)

46:14 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Kaytee)

48:09 - The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier (Meredith)

48:17 - The Popcast

51:11 - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (Kaytee)

52:57 - In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (Meredith)

55:58 - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt (Kaytee)

57:32 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree (Meredith)

1:00:06 - Love and Saffron by Kim Fay

1:00:07 - A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

1:00:08 - A Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

1:00:13 - Downton Shabby by Hopwood DePree

1:01:15 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Kaytee)

1:02:10 - An Unlikely Story

1:03:05 - A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny (Meredith)

1:04:53 - The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb (Kaytee)

1:07:20 - Babel by RF Kuang (Meredith #2, Kaytee #1)

1:14:32 - An Immense World by Ed Yong (Kaytee #2)

1:16:13 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (Meredith #1)

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