2021 Spring Preview

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca preview the interesting new Spring releases in the form of a draft! They each drafted 10 books to make a basket with the intended audience of a generally interested reader. And they need your help to decide who won! Take a look at the lists below, and then email podcast@bookriot.com with your vote for who drafted the best all-around basket. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Rebecca’s List: Long Time Coming by Michael Eric Dyson Good Company by Cythnia d’Aprix Sweeney Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood How Beautiful We Were by Imbolu Mbue Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir How to Change by Katy Milkman The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan Nine Nasty Words by John McWhorter Soul of a Woman by Isabelle Allende Jeff’s List: The Survivors by Jane Harper My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee Think Again by Adam Grant Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend by Ben Philippe The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Welcome back to the Book Riot Podcast.
0:31.0	It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking
0:34.8	about in the world of books and reading. I'm Jeff O'Neill. She's Rebecca Schinsky.
0:37.6	Coming to you on the 21st of January and 2021, New Year's Day. It is, it's a good day today. It's a
0:46.2	good day today. It's a New Year's Day today and because it's New Year's Day today
0:49.8	we are doing our spring preview. We're mixing up the format a little bit rather than just doing a Whitmaness catalog of the things we found interesting in the catalogs coming out.
1:01.0	We're structuring this one in the form of a draft. We're making
1:04.4	ten selections of books coming out between now and May 31st and the goal is to
1:10.6	create a basket of books that we would present as our Swiss Army
1:17.1	recommendations to a generally interested readers. Like here is the
1:20.5	experience of reading I would pick for you out of what's coming now knowing
1:23.8	nothing about you a Swiss Army basket if you will. I guess when I think about it a toolbox is a Swiss Army
1:29.0	there we go. But a selection a curated selection of books that I think will interest most readers.
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