Book store
Customer Robin Nider, left, a voracious reader and a high school humanities teacher, smiles as she talks with a store employee as she shops with her son, Nathan, five months, at the opening day for Amazon Books, the first brick-and-mortar retail store for online retail giant Amazon, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in Seattle. Elaine Thompson/Associated Press
Book store
Customer Robin Nider, left, a voracious reader and a high school humanities teacher, smiles as she talks with a store employee as she shops with her son, Nathan, five months, at the opening day for Amazon Books, the first brick-and-mortar retail store for online retail giant Amazon, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in Seattle. Elaine Thompson/Associated Press

We stacked up our favorite books of the year, including stand-outs from Chicago-area authors.

Reset chats with a local book critic and a bookstore owner to hear the best titles they read in 2022.

GUESTS: DL Mullen, owner of Semicolon Bookstore and Gallery

Adam Morgan, book critic and founder of Chicago Review of Books

Book store
Customer Robin Nider, left, a voracious reader and a high school humanities teacher, smiles as she talks with a store employee as she shops with her son, Nathan, five months, at the opening day for Amazon Books, the first brick-and-mortar retail store for online retail giant Amazon, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in Seattle. Elaine Thompson/Associated Press
Book store
Customer Robin Nider, left, a voracious reader and a high school humanities teacher, smiles as she talks with a store employee as she shops with her son, Nathan, five months, at the opening day for Amazon Books, the first brick-and-mortar retail store for online retail giant Amazon, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in Seattle. Elaine Thompson/Associated Press

We stacked up our favorite books of the year, including stand-outs from Chicago-area authors.

Reset chats with a local book critic and a bookstore owner to hear the best titles they read in 2022.

GUESTS: DL Mullen, owner of Semicolon Bookstore and Gallery

Adam Morgan, book critic and founder of Chicago Review of Books