Items, narrowed down to five, are listed alphabetically, by title.
PICTURE BOOKS
A KID IS A KID IS A KID by Sara O’Leary; illus. Qin Leng
MILO IMAGINES THE WORLD by Matt de la Pena; Illus Christian Robinson
OUR LITTLE KITCHEN by Jillian Tamaki
UNSPEAKABLE: The Tulsa Race Massacre Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. Floyd Cooper
WE ALL PLAY by Julie Flett
MIDDLE YEARS NOVELS
THE BEATRYCE PROPHECY by Kate DiCamillo
BURYING THE MOON by Andree Poulin; illus, Sonali Zohra
GROUND ZERO BY Alan Gratz
LINKED by Gordon Korman
YUSUF AZEEM IS NOT A HERO by Saadia Faruqi
YA
COUNT ME IN: 15 stories about immigration and finding home by Adi Alsaid (ed.0
EVERYTHING SAD IS UNTRUE (A True Story) by Daniel Nayeri
GONE TO THE WOODS: Surviving a Lost Childhood (biography) Gary Paulsen
UNDER THE IRON BRIDGE by Kathy Kacer
HERE THE WHOLE TIME Vitor Martins
GROWN-UP FICTION
THE ECHO CHAMBER by John Boyne
FIVE LITTLE INDIANS by Michelle Good
KLARA AND THE SUN by Kazuo Ishiguro
OH, WILLIAM by Elizabeth Strout
*SHUGGIE BAINE by Douglas Stuart
GROWN-UP NONFICTION
THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED: Essays by John Green
IS THIS ANYTHING? by Jerry Seinfeld
PUTTING IT TOGETHER by James Lapine
TINY LOVE STORIES: True tales of love in 100 words or less by Daniel Jones & Miya Lee (eds.)
UNSTOPPABLE (biography of Siggi B. Wilzig) by Joshua M. Greene
MOVIES
BELFAST
DON’T LOOK UP
GUNDA
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
TICK… TICK… BOOM!
LIVE THEATRE
BLINDNESS (Toronto)
DANA H. (New York)
INTO THE WOODS (Talk is Free Theatre)
THREE TALL WOMEN (Stratford)
WEST MOON (Rising Tide Theatre, Newfoundland)
TV (series)
LANDSCAPERS
MUM
MARE OF EASTTOWN
SHTISEL (season 3)
SQUID GAME
CD’s (yes, CD’s)
TONY BENETT & LADY GAGA / Love for Sale
KEITH JARETT / The Melody At Night, With You
DIANE KRALL / This Dream of Y0u
STING / Duets
BILLY TIPTON / Jazz 1955
OTHER
CHRIS BOTTI CONCERT (Roy Thomson Hall)
CONSTELLATIONS (Donmar Streaming) with Omari Douglas & Russell Tovey
FIRE BURN UP MY BONES (Met Live Opera)
FOLLIES (Concert / Koerner Hall)
MATTHEW BOURNE’S “THE NUTCRACKER” (Sadler’s Wells, London)