Book*hugs Wrapped: Books We Loved This Year, the Authors’ Edition
This month, we asked our 2022 authors that most prized question: what were your favourite reads of the year? We are now pleased to present Book*hugs Wrapped, The Authors’ Edition! Read on for a list of books that moved, excited, changed, engaged, amused, bemused, and ultimately dazzled Book*hug authors this year:
Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of Lunar Tides
- Standing in the River of Time by Jonina Kirton
- Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf by Sina Queryas
- Half-Bads in White Regalia by Cody Caetano
Shani Mootoo, author of Cane | Fire
- Remnants by Céline Huyghebaert, translated by Aleshia Jensen
- A Girl’s Story by Annie Erneaux
- Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Stacey May Fowles, co-editor of Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood
- Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
Céline Huyghebaert, author of Remnants
- The Undying by Anne Boyer
- Walk me to the corner by Anneli Furmark
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Aleshia Jensen, translator of Remnants
- Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell
- Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
- Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Kate Hargreaves, author of tend
- Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer
- Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline
- Ere by Amilcar Nogueira and Simina Banu
Adebe DeRango-Adem, author of Vox Humana
- Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
- Dream of No One But Myself by David Bradford
- Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Anita Anand, author of A Convergence of Solitudes
- Everybody: A Book about Freedom by Olivia Lang
- Jones by Neil Smith
- Léa by Ariela Freedman
Marina Allemano, translator of Hunger Heart
- Girl Woman Other by Bernadine Evaristo
- I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind by Marianne Apostolides
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Cary Fagan, author of The Animals
- Foster by Claire Keegan
- Remnants by Céline Huyghebaert, translated by Aleshia Jensen
- Quiet Night Think: Poems and Essays by Gillian Sze
Tree Abraham, author of Cyclettes
- The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken
- Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell
- Groundglass by Kathryn Savage
Alessandra Naccarato, author of Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene
- Parasitic Oscilations by Madhur Anand
- How to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed
River Halen, author of Dream Rooms
- Lote by Shola von Reinhold
Mike Steeves, author of Bystander
- A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse
- The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
Daniel Sarah Karasik, author of Plenitude
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Customs by Solmaz Sharif
Carellin Brooks, author of Learned
- Charlie Chan Carries On by Earl Derr Biggers
- Victoria Sees It by Carrie Jenkins
- This Unlikely Soil by Andrea Routley
Anna Moschavakis, author of Participation
- Or, On Being the Other Woman by Simone White
- Permanent Revolution by Gail Scott
- My Mother Laughs by Chantal Ackerman, translated by Corina Copp
