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Book Riot

News in the world of books and reading, including hot industry releases, adaptations, publishing industry events, and more with Book Riot’s Jeff O’Neal and Rebecca Shinsky.
Book Riot is the largest independent editorial book site in North America and home to a host of media, from podcasts to newsletters to original content, all designed around diverse readers and across all genres.

Book Riot - The Podcast

Jeff and Rebecca get into the NYT's 100 Notable and 10 Best Books of the Year list, Goodreads Choice winners, Cormac McCarthy's distressing hidden relationship, and kidney stones.
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Cormac McCarthy’s secret muse was 16 when he began a relationship with her 
Costco to keep books in-store year-round in 100 locations
The NYT’s 100 notable books of the year and Top 10
Spotify reveals top audiobooks in the US & globally
Goodreads Choice Awards are as white as ever
The Tournament of Books shortlist has landed 
Taylor Swift book sales best everyone but Barack
Rental House by Weike Wang
The Boys of Riverside
What's Next
Nightbitch
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The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024, Goodreads Choice Winners, Spotify's Most-Listened Audiobooks, and more.

Jeff and Rebecca reveal their favorite books of 2024.
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James by Percival Everett
There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Splinters by Leslie Jamison
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
The Other Significant Others
Colored Television 
Margot's Got Money Trouble
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
Blackpill
Ghostroots by Pemi Aguda
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Our Favorite Books of the Year

Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, joins Jeff to talk about the colossal undertaking that is making its 100 Notable Books List and its 10 Best Books of the Year List.
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How THE NEW YORK TIMES Picks The 100 Notable, and 10 Best, Books of the Year

Jeff and Rebecca settle in to figure what 10 books from 2024 defined the year. Not the best (necessarily), the most popular (though could be), or most interesting (in many cases not), but a list that comes closest to telling the story of 2024 in reading.
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Book Riot's TBR 
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The Books of the Year

Jeff and Rebecca take a look at the hits, misses, and favorites from the year in literary adaptations.
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Taking Stock of the Year in Adaptations

A preview of our most recent Patreon-only episode about the books we missed this year (though, maybe we will get to a few of them? maybe?).
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The Books We Missed This Year [Teaser]

Jeff and Rebecca look back at the books & stories that defined 2024.
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Book Riot’s TBR
The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
The 2025 Read Harder Challenge is live
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The dust settled as publishing’s earnings rebound in H1
Barnes & Noble is back, baby, and they bought a beloved indie
The Discourse: 

Remember the moment when some people thought Taylor Swift wrote Argylle? 

PRH dismisses Reagan Arthur & Lisa Lucas

NYT’s top 100 books of the century so far

NaNoWriMo’s PR fail with AI

only 20k serious readers of lit fic?

Coming Attractions: 

Spielberg in talks to produce James adaptation directed by Taika Waititi

Liz Moore signs Sony deal for Long Bright River & God of the Woods

Meryl Streep in adaptation of The Corrections

Florence Pugh in East of Eden for Netflix

The Black List expands to fiction & highlights publishing’s most-wanted adaptations, 

Book banning news: 

Idaho library to become adults-only

High school shuts down library due to book banning law

Big Five and Authors Guild sue over Florida law

PRH hires a public policy role 

Many states have banned book bans

In memoriam: 

Daniel Kahneman

John Gierach

Edna O’Brien

Francine Pascal 

Nikki Giovanni

Paul Auster

The #metoo trifecta of Cormac McCarthy, Alice Munro, and Neil Gaiman
The robots are coming: 

authors sue Anthropic

Roxane Gay & Margaret Atwood among authors helping create AI reading guides

Number go up: US audiobook sales hit $2 billion in 2023 
One to watch: ByteDance’s 8th Note Press to publish print books in 2025
This is why literacy matters: Florida dept of education recommends Pride & Prejudice as a book about American pride
Listener feedback award: the surprising origins of publishing’s seasons, Sophia’s It Books tracker
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The Year in Review

A preview of the first-ever EMERGENCY bonus episode for Patreon subscribers. Obama released his favorite books of 2024. Let's just say there were surprises.
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Emergency Podcast: On Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 [Teaser]

A little teaser for our Best of the Rest of 2024 episode over on the Book Riot podcast Patreon. Rebecca and Jeff talk about their favorite non-book things from 2024, a few of which might be of interest to other humans.
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The Best of the Rest of 2024 [Teaser]

Jeff and Rebecca preview the books of 2025 (that we know about) that will be on the reading world's radar in 2025.
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Book Riot’s TBR
The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
The 2025 Read Harder Challenge is live
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The Books To Watch for in 2025

Jeff and Rebecca respond to some listener feedback, talk about the sales spike of Kamala Harris books, some truly amateur hour cheating in the Hugo Awards, and nerd out about some specific sales data related the the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century List.

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Discussed in this episode:
What is Going on with Book Sales? Episode of First Edition
***We’re hiring***
The NYT list is moving units
Kamala Harris book sales soaring
Hugo Awards reveal (poorly executed) scheme to get fraudulent votes for one author
Nickel Boys adaptation will open the New York Film Festival, hits theaters 10/25
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Harris Book Sales Spike, the Hugos Catch Some Bad Cheaters, and More Book News

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