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All the Books!

All the Backlist! January 5, 2018

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty discusses Year of Yes, Year of Magical Thinking, Year of Wonders, and more great older books. This week’s episode is sponsored by Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig. Enter here for a chance to win Book Riot’s Top 20 Books of 2017! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts 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: The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs Drop Dead Healthy by A. J. Jacobs Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Blue Nights by Joan Didion The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin A Year in the Maine Woods by Bernd Heinrich The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History by William Klingaman Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Huston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:09.2

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0:23.9

Engineered to do it all. That's a laptop evolved with Intel Evo Platform.

0:27.8

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

0:35.6

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

0:39.9

This is episode 28 and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the weeks, new releases, and more.

0:46.0

So hello, Happy New Year!

0:49.7

It's a brand new year and that's exciting but before I get more excited about it, I'm going to tell you about today's sponsor.

0:55.6

Today's show is sponsored by Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig. It's out from Park Row books.

1:01.5

Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager.

1:04.6

She plays flute in the school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems

1:08.9

for English class.

1:10.2

But Ginny is autistic, and so what's important to her might seem a bit different.

1:14.5

Full of great big heart and unexpected humor, Ledwig's debut introduces the lovable wholly original

1:19.9

Jenny Moon who discovers a new meeting of family on her unconventional journey home.

1:24.0

It's for fans of the curious incident of the dog in the night time, room, and where did you go,

1:29.0

Bernadette. So that's Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig out from Park Row Books. It's now in paperback. We'll have a link to it in the show notes and you can get it wherever books are sold.

1:38.5

And oh, oh, I also want to remind you that you still have time to enter to win Book Riot's top 20 books of 2017,

1:46.4

like Exit West, Little Fires Everywhere, a bunch of other great stuff. You go to bookriot.com slash bookriot top 20

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