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All the Books!

All the Backlist! December 6, 2019

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty discusses two great older books, including Turtle Diary. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause by Shawn Wen Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everyone loves a great Christmas movie and nobody does Christmas better than Disney Plus.

0:06.0

That was epic.

0:08.0

Stream Indiana Jones in the Dial of Destiny straight from the cinema.

0:11.0

I've been looking for this all my life.

0:14.0

Alongside festive favorites like Muppets Christmas Carol.

0:18.0

Merry Christmas everyone.

0:20.0

Home alone and Die Hard.

0:22.0

Streaming this season from 499 a month on Disney Plus.

0:27.0

Auto News and less cancelled.

0:28.0

18 Plus subscription required. You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

0:45.0

I'm your host Liberty Hardy, and I'm little in the middle, but I've got much backlist.

0:49.0

This is episode one 23, and today I'm going to talk about a couple of great backlist titles. So hello!

0:55.0

It has been a very long time since I have done one of these.

0:58.0

I think it's been like a month.

1:00.0

Hello, how's everybody doing? I had a cold, I think, when it was my turn last time, so I passed it off.

1:06.9

But here I am. It's the end of the year. I keep mentioning this because it's kind of amazing. It's the end of the decade. I was just

1:15.0

rounding up my 100 favorite books of the last decade. I am going to fall just a little tiny

1:22.1

bit short of 5,000 for the year, or not for the year, but for the decade,

1:26.0

which is kind of disappointing, unless for some reason I can figure out a way to not do any work for the next several weeks and just read books. But I picked my 100 favorite

1:35.2

titles and I might share that. I might keep it to myself, I don't know. But I remembered some really great

1:41.8

books that I read while I was going through my records and I thought I would tell you about a couple of them today.

1:48.0

First I want to tell you about today's sponsor.

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