Episode 25: Editors' Choice 2022

Booklist's Shelf Care

On this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, it’s the most wonderful time of the year! That’s right, it’s Editors’ Choice time, when we here at Booklist pick the best of the best for 2022. As in years past, Booklist editors picked some standouts from the list to shout out in this Very Special Episode of Shelf Care, and here’s what we talked about: Donna Seaman, Editor, Adult Books: The Swimmers, by Julie Otsuka (Top of the List Adult Fiction) Africa is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent, by Dipo Faloyin (Top of the List Adult Nonfiction) Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, by Kate Beaton, art by the author (Top of the List Adult Graphic Novel) Booklist Reader Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern, by Neil Baldwin Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins, by Aidan Levy Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver Liberation Day, by George Saunders Out There, by Kate Folk How to Read Now, by Elaine Castillo Sarah Hunter, Editor, Books for Youth: Farmhouse, by Sophie Blackall, illus. by the author Maya’s Song, by Renée Watson, illus. by Bryan Collier Our Crooked Hearts, by Melissa Albert My Aunt is a Monster, by Reimena Yee, art by the author (Top of the List Youth Graphic Novel) Squire, by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh, art by Sara Alfageeh Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, by Kate Beaton, art by the author Heather Booth, Editor, Audio: Listening Still, by Anne Griffin, read by Nicola Coughlan (Top of the List Adult Audio) Journal of a Traveling Girl, by Nadine Neema, read by the author (Top of the List Audio for Youth) The Babysitter Lives, by Stephen Graham Jones, read by Isabella Star LaBlanc Inside Voice: My Obsession with How We Sound, by Lake Bell, read by the author and a full cast Thank You for Listening, by Julia Whelan, read by the author The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, by Janelle Monáe, read by Janelle Monáe and Bahni Turpin Marple: Twelve New Mysteries, by Agatha Christie and others, read by a full cast Love & Saffron, by Kim Fay, read by a full cast Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew, by Michael W. Twitty, read by the author Tell Me Everything, by Erica Krouse, read by Gabra Zackman I Must Betray You, by Ruta Sepetys, read by Edoardo Ballerini and Ruta Sepetys Coming Up Cuban: Rising Past Castro’s Shadow, by Sonia Manzano, read by a full cast Hilo: Books 1—3, by Judd Winick, read by a full cast Demon in the Wood, by Leigh Bardugo, read by a full cast Ronny Khuri, Senior Editor, Books for Youth: A is for Bee: An Alphabet Book in Translation, by Ellen Heck, illus. by the author (Top of the List Picture Book) Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle, by Nina LaCour, illus. by Kaylani Juanita Annie Bostrom, Senior Editor, Adult Books: Stay True, by Hua Hsu Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, by Kate Beaton, art by the author Maggie Reagan, Senior Editor, Books for Youth: All My Rage, by Sabaa Tahir (Top of the List Youth Fiction) Alone Out Here, by Riley Redgate Kiss and Tell, by Adib Khorram Susan Maguire, Senior Editor, Adult Books: By Her Own Design, by Piper Huguley Lark Ascending, by Silas House Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, by R. F. Kuang Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto, by Tricia Hersey Julia Smith Senior Editor, Books for Youth: The Honeys, by Ryan La Sala Hell Followed with Us, by Andrew Joseph White Lily and the Night Creatures, by Nick Lake Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration, by Elizabeth Partridge, illus. by Lauren Tamaki. (Top of the List Youth Nonfiction)