Episode 138: Best of 2022 with Rachel

It is that time of year where Rachel and I join forces to talk about our favorite reads of the year!

Books Mentioned:

• Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
• Fairy Tale by Stephen King
• Full Immersion by Gemma Amor
• Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
• Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses by Kristen O’Neal
• Woman Eating by Claire Kohda
• Sign Here by Claudia Lux
• String Follow by Simon Jacobs
• Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy
• Anybody Home? by Michael J. Seidlinger
• #thighgap by Chandler Morrison
• Your Mind is a Terrible Thing by Hailey Piper
• Below by Laurel Hightower
• Three Days in the Pink Tower by E.V. Knight
• This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau
• They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces by Eric LaRocca
• Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgant Talty
• Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey
• The Liminal Zone by Junji Ito
• The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
• How to Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine
• The Honeys by Ryan LaSala
• Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
• Under the Skin by Michel Faber
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• The Night Country by Stewart O’Nan
• The Delicate Dependency by Michael Talbot
• Tell Me Everything: The Story of an Investigation by Erika Krouse
• Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles
• Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson
• Murder in the Neighborhood by Ellen J. Green
• I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
• Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R.F. Kuang
•  From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of the Romantic Comedy by Scott Meslow
• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• No Gods for Drowning by Hailey Piper

Final Girl Song

Rachel picked “Help I’m Alive” by Metric, and I went with Florence + the Machine’s “Dream Girl Evil”. Check it out here!

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