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
- The Neptune Room by Bertrand Laverdure, translated by Oana Avasilichioaei
- The Lightning of Possible Storms by Jonathan Ball
- How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Charlene Chow, Assistant Acquisitions Editor
- You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.by Sheung-King
- Essayism by Brian Dillon
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
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