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Book Riot - The Podcast

#187: The Best Books of 2016

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

News, News Commentary, Arts, Tv & Film, Books

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about Book Riot's Best Books of 2016 picks, Amazon's best-selling books of 2016, the Goodreads Choice winners, turning Harper Lee into a tourist attraction, and our pick for strangest book-adjacent story of the year.    This episode is sponsored by: Casper  TryAudiobooks.com Madison Reed See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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UK residents, T's and C supply. Please apply. This is the Book Riot Podcast, a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking

0:29.6

about in the world of books and reading.

0:31.2

This episode 187 187 recording on Saturday

0:34.1

December 10th I'm Jeff O'Neill I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky we're coming to you

0:38.0

from bookriot.com Rebecca I've been snowed in for two days that's why

0:41.0

recording two days later I got kids all over.

0:44.4

We actually iced in, believe it or not, half inch of ice. An inch or half, well, any

0:49.2

like inch accumulation of ice at all is problematic. Well, and they have no facility here for dealing with snow,

0:54.8

so, you know, an inch of snow.

0:56.2

And it's still, and it's dangerous.

0:57.6

So it's not what I'm used to coming from Kansas

0:59.7

or coming from New York where, you know, really have some.

1:02.1

But I do remember as a kid, do you remember this as a kid where

1:04.7

if you got ice on the tree you were out of school?

1:06.6

You're like, six inches of snow, they would have school, but it was wind chill,

1:10.8

but if you could see ice like crusting the tree, like yes, that's it.

1:14.3

There's no doubt, that's the de no-mau-ma, we're calling this one.

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