This issue is loaded with the best of the best 2022 books and audiobooks for adults and youth, a testament to incredible authors, illustrators, narrators, and so many others whose work educates, entertains, and changes lives. Booklist staff, too, were amazing as they read, reviewed, edited, interviewed, designed, coordinated, and managed with breadth, depth, and skill. As we appreciate the volume, quality, and variety of Booklist over the past year, we also celebrate titles we’ve read, listened to, and watched for personal pleasure, immersions that helped our team shine during an active and engaging year.
—George Kendall
The Blackbird Girls. By Anne Blankman.
The pandemic and adolescence scuttled our family’s tradition of bedtime reading. But with a lengthy extended-family vacation, I wanted to take one more shot at sharing time…
