Description
Nathan and Darby talk about books (again) and important topics like “what is a new year anyway?” We may or may not be late with this segment about our top picks from 2022 (though we are totally early for Nowruz/Persian New Year, so there!).
Our top picks:
- FICTION
- GENERAL FICTION: A Funny Kind of Paradise by Jo Owens -Victoria author
- TOP SERIES: The Rockton/Casey Duncan series by Kelley Armstrong -Canadian author
- Start at the beginning with City of the Lost
- BEST MYSTERY: The Verifiers by Jane Pek
- HISTORICAL FICTION: Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen
- DUAL LITERARY FICTION & TOP BOOK CLUB PICK: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
- GRAPHIC NOVEL MEMOIRS:
- Ducks: two years in the oil sands by Kate Beaton
- Our Little Secret: a graphic memoir by Emily Carrington -Gabriola Island author
- NON-FICTION:
- Adrift: the curious tale of the Lego lost at sea by Tracey Williams
- The Pocket: a hidden history of women’s lives, 1660-1900 by Barbara Burman
- Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
- Outer Order, Inner Calm by Gretchen Rubin
- KIDS/JUVENILE NOVEL: The Golden Swift by Lev Grossman (Silver Arrow sequel)