Our favorite episode of the year, full of our favorite books of the year. Happy New Year from your friends at Well-Read!

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Ann’s picks:

• The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings (buy from Bookshop)- N.K. Jemisen books- Marlon James books
• Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang (buy from Bookshop)
• Book Lovers by Emily Henry (buy from Bookshop)
• The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill (buy from Bookshop)- Anthony Horowitz books
• Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean (buy from Bookshop)
• Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson (buy from Bookshop)
• Small Angels by Lauren Owen (buy from Bookshop)
• The It Girl by Ruth Ware (buy from Bookshop)- Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister (buy from Bookshop)
• The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood (buy from Bookshop)
• Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith (buy from Bookshop)

Halle’s picks:

• Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monahan (buy from Bookshop)
• The Verifiers by Jane Pek (buy from Bookshop)
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (buy from Bookshop)- Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin (buy from Bookshop)- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (buy from Bookshop)- Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (buy from Bookshop)
• We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman (buy from Bookshop)
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (buy from Bookshop)- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (buy from Bookshop)
• The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays by C.J. Hauser (buy from Bookshop)- "The Crane Wife" by C.J. Hauser (essay from The Paris Review)
• All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir (buy from Bookshop)
• Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (buy from Bookshop)
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (buy from Bookshop)- Julia (TV)- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV)
• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (buy from Bookshop)- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towels (buy from Bookshop)- The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert (buy from Bookshop)

What We’re Reading This Week:

• Ann: Look Closer by David Ellis (buy from Bookshop)
• Halle: Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn (buy from Bookshop)

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