This episode we’re talking about our Favourite Reads of 2022! (Some of them were even published in 2022!) We discuss our favourite things we read for the podcast and our favourite things we read not for the podcast. Plus: Many more things we enjoyed this year, including video games, manga, graphic novels, food, and more!
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In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Favourite Fiction
- For the podcast
- Anna
- Jam
- Matthew
- Meghan
- Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
- Not for the podcast
Favourite Non-Fiction
- For the podcast
- Not for the podcast
- Meghan
- Anna
- Jam
- Matthew
- X-Gender, vol. 1 by Asuka Miyazaki, translated by Kathryn Henzler, adapted by Cae Hawksmoor
Other Favourite Things of 2022
Runner-Ups
- Anna
- Video Games:
- YouTube:
- Podcasts:
- Other (Audio)Books:
- Jam
- Favourite classic:
- Favourite manga:
- Favourite Album:
- Favourite AAA video game:
- Favourite indie video game:
- Favourite Wordle spin-off:
- Matthew
- Video game:
- Manga
- Dai Dark by Q Hayashida, translated by Daniel Komen
- My Dress Up Darling by Shinichi Fukuda, translated by Taylor Engel
- Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun by Izumi Tsubaki, translated by Leighann Harvey
- Descending Stories by Haruko Kumota, translated by Matt Treyvaud
- Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma, translated by Amy Forsyth
- Biomega, vol. 1 (just the first volume really, it does not stick the landing) by Tsutomu Nihei, translated by John Werry
- Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki, translated by Toshifumi Yoshida
- Disappearance Diary by Hideo Azuma, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian and Elizabeth Tiernan
- Graphic novels:
- Books
- Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
- Meghan
- Favourite new-to-me author:
- Favourite work of translation:
- Podcast non-fiction runner up:
- Podcast fiction runner up:
- Non-fiction
- Runner up graphic novels:
Links, Articles, Media, and Things
24 Travel Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
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Join us again on Tuesday, January 3rd we’ll be talking about Sports non-fiction!
Then on Tuesday, January 17rd we’ll be discussing our 2023 Reading Resolutions!
