Book Riot - The Podcast

Jeff and Rebecca look back 30 years to 1994 and power-rank the year's most influential, important, and memorable titles.

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Jeff and Rebecca talk about Amazon's best books of the year list, the pros and cons of the Goodreads Choice Awards, PW's annual salary survey, recent reading, and much more.

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Good news: most TX school board candidates who support book bans lost their elections

Amazon editors’ best books of 2024

Voting is open for the Goodreads Choice Awards

PW annual salary survey

Barnes & Noble on track to open 60 new stores this year

India’s ban on The Satanic Verses may end because of missing paperwork

Playground by Richard Powers

When the Coffee Gets Cold

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

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We consider The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year list to be the book list of record. In this episode, we make our picks for locks, likelies, and would-like-to-sees ahead of the anticipated release of the list next week.

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James 

Martyr!

RSTLNE Locks

All Fours

There’s Always This Year

Revenge of the Tipping Point

The Anxious Generation

God of the Woods

Knife

Creation Lake

Intermezzo

The Women

Orbital

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

The Mighty Red

Demon of Unrest

Mutual Agreed Upon Tier B

Beautyland

Splinters

Wandering Stars

Playground

Rejection

By the Fire We Carry

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

Split Decisions

John Lewis: A Life

Everyone Who is Gone is Here

Long Island Compromise

Splinters

Margot’s Got Money Troubles

Colored Television

Code Dependent

The Small and the Mighty

Entitlement

This Strange, Eventful History

All That Glitters

Lovely One

Sonny Boy

Patriot by Alexei Navalny

Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham

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Rebecca Schinksy talks to Franklin Leonard and Randy Winston about The Black List, a project to get exceptional, unproduced work into the world.

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The Black List

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Jeff and Rebecca decide the It Book of November.

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Variation by Rebecca Yarros

Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik

The Name of This Band is R.E.M by Peter Ames Carlin

High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul by Marcus Moore

Heartbreak is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music by Rob Sheffield

Cher: Part One

Lost and Lassoed by Lyla Sage

Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong

Masquerade by Mike Fu

The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Four Points of the Compass by Jerry Brotton

What the Chicken Knows by Sy Montgomery

Vanishing Treasure by Katherine Rundell

Lazarus Man by Richard Price

The Half King by Melissa Landers

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

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Jeff and Rebecca talk about B&N's finalists for their book of the year, why PW's best books of the year lists are so great and recent reading before they are joined by Brooke Nagler of The Book Group to talk about what it's like breaking into the world of books as an assistant to a literary agent.

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The Book Group

A belated fare-thee-well to John Gierach

Barnes & Noble’s Book of the Year finalists

The PW Best Books of the Year list is here, and it’s as hard to navigate as ever

The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

Conclave by Robert Harris

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

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Jeff offers Rebecca a list of questions about the world of books and reading that he would love to have answered but knows are impossible.

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Sharifah Williams joins Jeff to talk about B&N's Best Books of the Year list, promising trailers, PRH's new boilerplate AI language, and more of the week's top book news.

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Barnes & Noble best books of 2024 (ohmygod it isn’t even Halloween yet)

PRH adds language to copyright pages prohibiting use in AI training

How Should Debut Novelists Measure Success?

Ursula K. Le Guin Prize

Say Nothing

God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Ghostroots by Pemi Aguda

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Sonny Boy by Al Pacino

Interior Chinatown

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Jeff and Rebecca head down to the literary trading floor and evaluate their portfolio to determine which authors to buy, sell, or hold.

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Jeff and Rebecca mark the beginning of what should be a busy awards season for James, talk about Taylor Swift's notable book release strategy, get ready for TikTok to publish print titles, and mull more of the week's book news.

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Percival Everett wins the Kirkus Prize

South Carolina public library to stop acquiring books for minors

Amazon announces Kindle Colorsoft

Taylor Swift publishing first official book as Target exclusive 

ByteDance imprint 8th Note Press to publish first print books in 2025

Kate McKinnon to host National Book Awards

What I Ate In One Year by Stanley Tucci

Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

The Driving Machine by Witold Rybcyznski

A Reason to See You Again by jami attenberg

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

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