Author and Literary Hub Managing Editor Emily Temple and Lit Hub Associate Editor Katie Yee join hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about Lit Hub’s 38 favorite books of the year as chosen by the staff. The list spans genres from historical to memoir to post-digital post-capitalist manifesto to lesbian Sasquatch novel. Each editor reads a selection from a favorite, Temple from St. Sebastian’s Abyss by Mark Haber and Yee from The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka.

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Selected Readings:

Emily Temple

The Lightness

Katie Yee

Others:

Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022, Literary Hub
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The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
St. Sebastian’s Abyss by Mark Haber
My Three Dads by Jessa Crispin
Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly
The Bond King by Mary Childs
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
An Immense World by Ed Yong
The Sky is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith
Elderflora by Jared Farmer
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Donald Barthelme
Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica
The Ultimate Best Books of 2022 List ‹ Literary Hub

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S6 Ep. 13: Lit Hub’s Favorite Books of 2022, with Emily Temple and Katie Yee