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Bonus: The Books We Missed This Year [Teaser]
Book Riot - The Podcast
12/12/23
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Jeff and Rebecca run through the books they had their eyes on but didn't quite get to this year.
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Wrapping Up Holiday Recommendation Requests & Our Most Giftable Books of the Year
December 11, 2023
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Jeff and Rebecca handle a few last recommendation requests and then give some ideas for generally giftable books for 2023.
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Discussed in this episode:
Walking with Sam by Andrew McCarthy
Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh
The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt
The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
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The Year in Review
December 18, 2023
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Jeff and Rebecca look at the most important, memorable, strangest, and all and all most superlative stories from the year in books and reading.
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Discussed in this episode:
Good job, book people: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store gets all the love; Paul Harding does not win awards for the book Jeff called “gormless”
Bad job, book people: The Vaster Wilds & Let Us Descend are under-celebrated
Love to See It: Pultizers expand eligibility
Audiobook moments of the year: Michelle Williams narrating Britney’s memoir; Leslie Jones’s 17-hour-long freestyle; Spotify introduces free listening for Premium members
Worst publisher response to book bans: Scholastic’s whole diversity collection situation
Best publisher response to book bans: PRH takes legal action against book banning states
Achievements in Reporting: The Atlantic’s coverage of the Books 3 data set used to train LLMs
More of These Conversations: The bestseller lists are broken and Goodreads is bad for books
Biggest Mystery: WTF Oprah was up to with Covenant of Water
Still Waiting to See Its Impact: Simon & Schuster sold to KKR, TikTok plans a publishing imprint
Eyeballs Emoji: The BookTok hockey romance shenanigans, Bigolas Dickolas moves some units, Review Bombing Author
Nobody Asked for This: Twilight series coming to TV; HBO plans 10-year run for Harry Potter reboot
Anticlimactic: Manuscript thief pleads guilty
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