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All the Books!

All the Backlist! January 12, 2024

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Vanessa shares the gothic, witchy backlist reads she enjoyed over the holidays. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed A Dreadful Splendor by B.R. Myers River Woman, River Demon by Jennifer Givhan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:14.6

I'm your host, Vanessa Vias.

0:16.0

This is episode 445.5.

0:18.6

And today I'm going to tell you about some books that I really enjoyed getting into over

0:22.1

a little bit of time off that I took over the kind of gap between Christmas and New years

0:27.0

As I think I probably said on the show before I try to take that time to get to all the books have been meaning to get to they're not always

0:33.5

backlist sometimes there are new books that just came out on you know off dates not like my

0:37.6

week on all the books because again there's just so many more books than like I

0:40.9

personally have time to get to on any given week.

0:43.6

And I ended up going to a bookstore

0:46.0

and just like pretending that I'm not a person who works in books

0:48.6

and letting books find me.

0:50.9

And that was great.

0:51.5

Just you know, kind of picked them based on shelf

0:53.1

talkers and people's suggestions and I went away with several really great

0:57.0

reads two of which I'm going to tell you about today. Before we get into that let us

1:01.0

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1:11.1

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1:14.8

also tackling challenges in her personal life. From lifelong battles with perfectionism and anxiety

1:19.7

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1:23.6

And now Olympic and world champion herdler Sidney McLaughlin LeRone shares her personal story

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