Episode 50: Our favorite books of 2022 (and our favorite ERB podcast moments)

The Englewood Review of Books Podcast

Jen leads a freewheeling conversation with a roundtable of guests, who all reflect on their favorite books that were released in 2022. Also, Joel briefly takes over the episode for a reflection on the state of the ERB podcast after 50 episodes. Enjoy!
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
If you’d like to order any of the following books, we encourage you to do so from Hearts and Minds Books(An independent bookstore in Dallastown, PA, run by Byron and Beth Borger)

• Finding Holy in the Suburbs: Living Faithfully in the Land of Too Much by Ashley Hales
• A Spacious Life: Trading Hustle and Hurry for the Goodness of Limits by Ashley Hales
• The Life We're Looking for: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World by Andy Crouch
• The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in its Proper Place by Andy Crouch
• The Church After Innovation: Questioning our Obsession with Work, Creativity & Entrepreneurship by Andy Root
• Joel's YouTube interview with Andy Root
• Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker
• Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England by Eleanor Parker
• Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Profits and Platforms are Hurting the Church by Katelyn Beaty
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
• Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make us Whole by Susan Cain
• The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
• The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens by Phillip Ball
• If Nietzche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity by Justin Gregg
• Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
• When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness by David Pena-Guzman
• Bark to the Future: A Chet & Bernie Mystery by Spencer Quinn
• Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay
• Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
• Subversive Sabbath by A.J. Swoboda
• Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I? by Timothy Keller
• Forgiveness: An Alternative Account by Matthew Ichihashi Potts
• Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace by Miroslave Volf