#237: 2017 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1

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🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca kick off this year's holiday recommendation extravaganza... This episode is sponsored by: Men & Dogs Penguin Random House Audio Books recommended in this episode: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown What If by Randall Munroe Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat and Wendy McNaughton The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern History of the World in Six Cups by Tom Standige Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books The Fate of the West by Bill Emmott, No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-nehisi Coates Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit Wisdom of Sundays by Oprah Winfrey When Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Yoga Bodies by Laura Lipton and Jamie Beard Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan The Changeling by Victor Lavalle Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughn Bec McMaster Psy Changeling by Nalini Singh The Woman Next Door by Yewende Omatoso Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman Liane Moriarty Negroland by Margo Jefferson A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah Out of Africa by Karen Blixen This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett In the Language of Miracles by Rajia Hassib Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Bright Lines by Tanwin Nadini Islam 2am at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helena Bertino One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Book Riot Podcast, a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.
0:11.0	This is episode 240. We are recording on Saturday, November 25th. I'm
0:15.1	Rebecca Shinsky here with Jeff O'Neill and we're coming to you with this year's
0:19.1	holiday book recommendation request show from Book Riot Dog.
0:23.0	Part one of two.
0:24.0	We're going to do two episodes this week and next week.
0:27.0	So if you haven't heard your, if you didn't hear your request this week,
0:31.0	chances are you will hear it next week I think unless we get a
0:34.4	deluge which we might I think we might be able to get to them all over the course of
0:38.5	two episodes I think we might also yeah I am ready to go I I have listened to Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas album.
0:46.8	It's Saturday morning here. We just got back from Thanksgiving travel last night. I'm in my winter
0:51.1	pajamas. Like I've had my coffee feeling festive Jeff.
0:56.0	Well at 7 a.m. here we're doing it at this time because for travel scheduling holiday
1:01.6	reasons I can't I can't admit to being quite as festive
1:06.0	but I'll get in the spirit here as we go. There's a little more basso in my
1:09.2	profundo as you can probably hear. There is a little basso in my provondo.
1:14.8	It's something for your title.
1:17.4	So let's get into this.
1:19.1	I like how you, I like how you led the fastball.
1:21.8	I like anyway
1:22.6	anyway with the with your bank you got it right off the board all right do you want me to read it you want to read do you
1:28.9	want to read all these how do you do these what's my name yeah we usually
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