Episode 590: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2022

With the end of the year almost upon us, Coode Street was looking for a way to celebrate the books we read and loved during 2022. We also wanted to help you find something great to read for yourself or for someone close to you. And so the 2022 Coode Street Advent Calendar was born! Here are twenty-eight books that we loved and that we think you might love too. Space operas and epic fantasies, horror stories and comedies. Six-hundred page immersive tomes and light-footed short story collections.  A little bit of everything! To make this more than just a list, though, we're going to do something else. Every day between now and December 25 we're chatting with the wonderful creators of these books and asking them about what they've been reading, what holiday story they'd recommend, their own books for this year, and the ones they might have coming in 2023.

• Kelly Barnhill and When Women Were Dragons & The Ogress and the Orphans
• Richard Buttner and The Adventurists
• C.S.E Cooney and Saint Death's Daughter
• Aliette de Bodard and Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances & The Red Scholar's Wake
• Stephanie Feldman and Saturnalia
• Nicola Griffith and Spear
• Elizabeth Hand and Hokuloa Road
• Alix E. Harrow and A Mirror Mended
• Kate Heartfield and The Embroidered Book
• N.K. Jemisin and The World We Make
• Alex Jennings and The Ballad of Perilous Graves
• Guy Gavriel Kay and All the Seas of the World
• Paul McAuley and Beyond the Burn Line
• Sam J. Miller and Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy & Boys, Beasts & Men
• Tamsyn Muir and Nona the Ninth
• Sequoia Nagamatsu and How High We Go in the Dark
• Tochi Onyebuchi and Goliath
• M. Rickert and Lucky Girl: How I Became a Horror Writer
• Kelly Robson and High Times in the Low Parliament
• Christopher Rowe and These Prisoning Hills
• Rachel Swirsky and January Fifteenth
• Lavie Tidhar and Neom
• Nghi Vo and Siren Queen & Into the Riverlands
• Liz Williams and Embertide
• Neon Yang and The Genesis of Misery

The sharp-eyed among you will notice that there aren't quite 28 entries in our Advent Calendar. You're right! We're still to record a few, but they should all be in place before this is done. But keep your eyes peeled for more.

What else did we do? Well, it's Coode Street, so we rambled about books of the year, short story collections and more. Hope you enjoy it!