Best books of 2022

Contributors from the team talk about their favorite books of 2022. 

Books and Resources mentioned: 

Mentioned by Sally:

FBC Podcast Segments: Non-Fiction Graphic Novels; Best New Releases (so far); Frisky Faves

Near the Bone by Christina Henry

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

The Change by Kirsten Miller

Mentioned by Niba:

The Golden Enclave by Naomi Novik

Mentioned by Mariquita:

Ejaculate Responsibly by Gabrielle Blair

Mentioned by Ashley: 

A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia

Forty Acres by Dwayne Alexander Smith

Acne by Laura Chinn

The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson

Civil Rights Queen by Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Like a House on Fire by Lauren McBrayer

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Mentioned by Renee

Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

Babel by R.F. Kuang

The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson

People Person by Candice Carty-Williams

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

Mentioned by Natalia

Breathe and Count Back From Ten by Natalia Sylvester

The Light Pirate by Lily Brook-Dalton

Vagina Obsucura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross

The Address Book by Deirdre Mask

Mentioned by Jordy

All My Love, From the Trenches by Reilly Vore

If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson

Belles of London series by Mimi Mattews

Payback’s a Witch by Laura Harper

Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica

Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

Wahala by Nikki May

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilderson

Mentioned by Tayler

You Made A Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

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This episode was edited by Niba and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.

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