It’s time to ring in a new year¹ and say goodbye to the old! As I have the honour² of writing the final Hot Off the Shelf post of 2022, I thought it’d be nice to have all the HOTS writers share their top three reads for the year. Or, to be more accurate: their top two reads for the year and then an open category for the 3^rd, so long as it’s available at VPL. One of us chose a book, two chose albums, and one chose a game³. We also have a special Editor’s Choice category from our lead, Heather.

To make this more interesting than a simple list of items⁴ I followed up my colleagues’ choices with some questions, the answers to which you’ll find below. Like an answer, but want some follow-up? Ask in the comments! We’re all going to be monitoring this.

Along with each writer’s choices and answers to the questions, you’ll be getting my first thoughts on seeing/researching each title to help inform where my questions came from⁵.