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A Year in the Books: Book*hugs Recommend, the Staff Edition

Today’s chapter of Book*hugs Recommend features Book*hug staff along with (some of!) our favourite reads of the year. These are books which stuck with us, made us feel, made us laugh, made us think; satisfied some of our curious, droll, earnest, comedic, speculative, scientific, wanderlusting, metaphysical, intertextual, melancholic, and optimistic—you name it—moods. Read on for a list of books we admire; those we will be re-reading and gifting this holiday season:

Hazel Millar, Co-Publisher

  • Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
  • No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
  • Missed Connections: A Memoir in Letters Never Sent by Brian Francis

Jay Millar, Co-Publisher

  • The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
  • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
  • Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

Malcolm Sutton, Editor

  • Search History by Eugene Lim
  • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World  by Tyson Yunkaporta
  • Second-hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Bela Shayevich

Meg Storey, Editor

  • Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
  • Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
  • The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine

John Schmidt, Digital Marketing and Web Manager

Charlene Chow, Assistant Acquisitions Editor

Rachel Gerry, Publishing Assistant

  • In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale
  • The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector, translated by Idra Novey
  • Assembly by Natasha Brown
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