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

fiction/non/fiction

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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This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

Selected Readings:

Emily Temple

• The Lightness

Katie Yee

Others:

• Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022, Literary Hub
• Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 5 Episode 26: “This is Such Bullshit.” Shelly Oria and Kristen Arnett on the Reproductive Rights Crisis
• Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 1 Episode 4: Edmund White and Emily Temple on Literary Feuds, Social Media, and Our Appetite for Drama
• 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
• https://moonpalacebooks.com/browse/filter/t/kelly%20link/k/keyword
• Kelly Link
• 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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