Another year has come and gone, and yet we’re still here, talking about books! For a treat, here are some good ones.

Footnotes: Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2022 (featuring Renata’s picks for middle grade and YA!)

Coming up next: A January hiatus. Happy New Year! We’ll see you in February!

Kait’s Top 5 Best

5. Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

4. Experimental Film by Gemma Files

(4a. each thing i show you is a piece of my death by Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer)

3. Small Angels by Lauren Owen

2. What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

1.  These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

Bonus fave: Season of Love by Helena Greer

Renata’s Top 5 Best

5. Great or Nothing by Joy McCullough, Caroline Tung Richmond, Tess Sharpe, & Jessica Spotswood

4. Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

3. Ducks by Kate Beaton

2. Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore

1. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Renata’s Top 2 Worst Books To Be Banned/Challenged

2. Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
1. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe