2022 Holiday Recommendations, Part 1

Book Riot - The Podcast

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

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🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca continue their annual tradition of responding to listener recommendation requests. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez for science history, The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen The Topeka School by Ben Lerner A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson The Man From the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya A Small Charred Face by Kazuki Sakuraba The Cheffe by Marie NDiaye Bibliolepsy by Gina Apostol Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso A Study in Scarlet by Sherry Thomas The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney Wake Siren by Nina MacLaughlin The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Best American Short Stories City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid The Martian by Andy Weir A Good Walk Spoiled by John Feinstein Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Book Riot Podcast.
0:05.0	It's normally a news and talk show about what's new, cool, and we're talking about the world of books and reading,
0:10.0	except for when it's not.
0:11.0	And one of the times it very much is not on a schedule
0:14.1	is for our recommendation shows.
0:15.8	And today, we are doing, well, both parts,
0:19.0	we're gonna release them in subsequent weeks,
0:21.0	our holiday recommendation,
0:23.0	extravaganza, the original flavor,
0:25.2	the original recipe of NAN, what's new, cool,
0:27.7	and we're talking about. We've been doing it.
0:29.6	Did we start this the beginning,
0:31.1	the first fall season? I can't remember if it was from the first
0:34.5	year or not at this point yeah I don't remember I have this feeling that early
0:41.0	podcasting Jeff and Rebecca would not have been sure we'd have enough
0:44.4	listeners to write questions in the first year. I think it was maybe the second or
0:48.9	third year. Well it kind of doesn't matter but that's what we're doing this week.
0:53.4	Thank you all so much for writing.
0:54.7	It's so funny, and I don't know, some of this could be
0:57.7	availability heuristic at this point,
1:00.8	but I do feel like in the arc of our recommendations, it's further and further towards dad books. We need more record. Is, am I wrong about this? No, I think we're manifesting it. It makes me wonder a couple of things.
1:15.8	One is why. Not a bad way, just why. Two is don't you think a podcast call dad books?
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