It’s time for our best books of the year episode! We also have an announcement about the podcast and Roni has a new book coming out. Join us for the end-of-the-year fun!
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Highlights:
An announcement about the podcast
Noticing the themes of our favorite books this year
The genres that worked and didn’t work for us this year
Roni loves a book statistic and she found some surprises about her reading life this year
Our favorite romances
Dawn’s dark darkness
Yes, Roni uses quarter stars
Books that speak to your Id
Our favorite mysteries and suspense
Roni’s favorite non-fiction
Leonard the dog tries to dismantle the office
A book Roni thinks everyone should listen to
Our most anticipated books for 2023
Roni’s new book Good Girl Fail comes out January 17th!
***Episode spoilers below***
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*Note: all book links are affiliate links which means the podcast makes a small commission if you make a purchase, but there is no extra cost to you!
Books recommended by Roni:
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Luck of the Draw by Kate Clayborn
The Impossible Us by Sarah Lotz
Praise by Sara Cate
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
Tell Me Everything by Erika Krouse
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
Bomb Shelter: Love Time and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
Tastemakers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food In America by Mayukh Sen
Cultish by Amanda Montell
Bittersweet by Susan Cain
The Only Plane In the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
In Every Generation by Kendare Blake
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
Books recommended by Dawn:
Gravity and Free Fall by Sara Cate
A Rival’s Kiss by Maya Hughes
The Alpha’s Seduction Marlowe Roy
The Sinful Empire Trilogy by Eva Charles
The Sweetest Oblivion by Danielle Lori
The Darkest Hour by Delaney Foster (Obsidian Brotherhood series)
56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Devastated and Devoted by Marie Johnston
The Beauty and the Assassin by Nadia Lee
Fire in His Blood by Ruby Dixon
Taken by Fate by Shannon Meyer
Most Anticipated (Roni has a new book coming out!)
Good Girl Fail by Roni Loren
One Girl in All the World by Kendare Blake
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Our Very Favorite Book of the Year:
Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister (Dawn’s pick)
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (Roni’s pick)
Find us online:
Connect with Roni on her website or @roniloren on Instagram
Connect with Dawn on her website or @dawnalexanderbooks on Instagram
Another note: Because we are both in the publishing industry, sometimes the books we recommend might be by an author we know personally, an author who shares a publisher, editor, or agent with Roni, or an author whom Dawn has edited. Publishing is a small world, so that will happen from time to time. However, we guarantee that we only recommend books we love. We have not been asked to promote any of these books and none are paid ads. However, some books we review may be ARCs (advanced reading copies provided by publishers to reviewers for honest reviews.)