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This is the bookwryb podcast. I am Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Schinsky.

You know what? I'm beginning to think, Rebecca, that the New York Times book reviews best books of this century so far was like the best idea in recent media because we have read their put their putt. Let's put it gently. One of our top stories today is reading the putt. Well, they're doing something a little bit different, but using a crowdsource thing. I don't know if that's Gilbert. G.C., if you're listening, congratulations to you. We all have dined out on the so far books. Let's get people to vote. Because these are interesting, Rebecca. I don't want to spoil it, but that was my first thought of mind is like, this is the content model that has launched a thousand lists, even in the year of our Lord, 26. Yes. And that like, you know, it, it's happened in all forms of media about all forms of entertainment. There have been, like, best movies of the century so far, best whatever's. You are talking specifically about the Guardian's new project, which is not anchored to the century. It's the hundred best novels of all time. Right. But they use the, the, let's get a bunch of people to vote and make that part

of this special stuff. Yeah, they did the like collective voting from a bunch of ballots. And they're

doing the same rollout model that the New York Times did of 20 titles a day. Curiously, they started

it on Tuesday. So we'll get 20 a day through this week as we're recording.

And then by the time the show is out on Monday, the top 20 will have been revealed.

Interesting to me, why not do it Monday through Friday?

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