Top Ten Reads of 2022 with BookTuber Russell Gray

Episode One Hundred Seventy Two Show Notes

– Announcing our 24th Readalong –
Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley. The paperback is available from Bookshop.org, the audiobook from Libro.fm to support the Book Cougars.

Please send an email if you would like to participate in the Zoom conversation on Sunday, February 26th at 7 PM (ET). And we would love for you to join the online conversation on the Goodreads thread.

Send Us Your Top Ten Books of 2022

– Our Top Ten Books of 2022 – [9:05]
We chat with Russell from Ink and Paper Blog about our Top Reads of the year.

Russell
Perish – Latoya Watkins
A Little Bit Country – Brian D. Kennedy
Our Missing Hearts – Celeste Ng
The Change – Kirsten Miller
Young Mungo – Douglas Stuart
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies – Maddie Mortimer
Address Unknown – Kathrine Kressman Taylor
Trust – Hernan Diaz
The Trees – Percival Everett
They’re Going to Love You – Meg Howrey

Emily
Hidden Pictures – Jason Rekulak (illustrated by Will Staehle & Doogie Horner)
Maggie Smith books:
Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
Keep Moving: The Journal: Thrive Through Change and Create a Life You Love
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir release date 4/11/2023
The Mad Women’s Ball – Victoria Mas, translated by Franck Wynne
Night Wherever We Go – Tracey Rose Peyton
Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
Elizabeth Strout:
Oh William!
Lucy By the Sea
The Swimmers – Julie Otsuka
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss – Amy Bloom
Simply Julia: 110 Recipes for Heathy Comfort Food – Julia Turshen

Chris
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake – Tiya Miles
A World of Curiosities – Louise Penny
The Seed Keeper – Diane Wilson
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir – Jenn Shapland
The Barrens: A Novel of Love and Death in the Canadian Arctic – Kurt Johnson and Ellie Johnson
Shutter – Ramona Emerson
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Miss Grief and Other Stories – Constance Fenimore Woolson
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration – Isabel Wilkerson
The Bad Seed – Jory John, illustrated by Pete Oswald

– Upcoming Reads We Are Excited About – [1:45:40]
The Deluge – Stephen Markley release date 1/10/2023
Decent People – De’Shawn Charles Winslow release date 1/17/2023
The Wise Hours: A Journey Into the Wild and Secret World of Owls – Miriam Darlington release date 2/7/2023
Chain Gang All-Stars – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah release date 4/4/2023
The Invisible Hour – Alice Hoffman release date 8/15/2023
The Writing Retreat – Julia Bartz release date 2/21/2023
Out of Character – Jenna Miller release date 2/7/2023

– Episode Sponsor –
Today’s Episode sponsored by Shuly Cawood and her book A Small Thing to Want.
We spoke with Shuly about the book on Episode 100.

– Also Mentioned –
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Penis Pokey – Christopher Behrens
Quirk Books
Impossible Fortress – Jason Rekulak
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America – Clint Smith
Small Game – Blair Braverman
A Ghost of Caribou – Alice Henderson
My Name is Lucy Barton – Elizabeth Strout
Anything is Possible – Elizabeth Strout
In the Distance – Hernan Diaz
Dean Street Press
Telephone – Percival Everett
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents – Isabel Wilkerson
Jami Attenberg
Ohio – Stephen Markley
In West Mills – De’Shawn Charles Winslow
Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives – Mary Laura Philpott
Friday Black – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Hester – Laurie Lico Albanese

You can help support the Book Cougars via our affiliates:
Libro.fm audiobook platform: Follow this link for the monthly membership. (promo code: bookcougars)
We are an affiliate of Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookstore & Café, click HERE to start shopping.
Bookshop.org – support us and independent bookstores!

If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email bookcougars@gmail.com for instructions.

Join our Goodreads Group!

We have a BookTube Channel – please check it out here, and be sure to subscribe!

Please subscribe to our email newsletter.