All the Backlist! November 17, 2023

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🗓️ 17 November 2023

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This week, Danika talks about a couple of queer YA books that came out in 2021 that deserve a lot more attention. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. It's happening, readers — we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you hate carrying around bulky hardcovers, you're on a budget, you want a wider range of recommendations, or all of the above, you can now get a paperback subscription from TBR, curated just for you by one of our Bibliologists. You can also gift it (and the holidays, they are coming.) Get all the details at mytbr.co. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee Follow Your Arrow by Jessica Verdi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And you're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.
0:15.5	I'm your host, Danicallis.
0:17.5	This is episode number 438.5, and today I'm going to tell you about a couple of queer YA backlist books that I think deserve a lot more attention.
0:28.0	So I've been a host on all the books for a while now years and one interesting thing as you can probably guess about
0:39.2	being on all the books is that you are reading books before they come out in order to talk about it the day it comes out obviously you have to read it before it comes out and
0:48.0	reading frontless books reading not yet released books, it's interesting because you are trying to predict how people are
0:58.8	going to react to this book when it does come out. Obviously there's always some pre-publication buzz, especially for the bigger books, but that doesn't necessarily line up with what it's going to end up being when the general public gets their hands on it or decides
1:17.0	not to pick it up at all.
1:18.8	So there are books that I talk about on all the books or I am sure are going to be the big book of the moment.
1:29.0	And then they come out and nobody really talks about them or they talk about them for a week and then it dies
1:36.3	off and you never hear about that book again. And then on the other hand there are books that I didn't think would find an audience that end up
1:44.8	getting picked up by a ton of people maybe they go viral on Tik-Tock or something and
1:50.8	they become these sensations that I don't think anyone was predicting.
1:58.0	So today I want to talk about a couple of Queer YA books that I read in 2021 that I really don't hear people talk
2:08.0	about anymore and I really think they should. I think these books are so good. I think even a couple of years later they still
2:16.4	are furthering the conversation and queer representation, especially in YA. And I think people would love them if they actually knew about them.
2:29.2	So one of these I thought was going to be huge.
2:32.4	One of them I thought was going to be huge. One of them I kind of knew wasn't going to get the
2:37.3	attention it deserved at the time, but both of them I really, and I still think about a lot.
2:44.6	So before I jump into that, I do want to talk about a very exciting development here at Book Riot.
2:53.0	So if you have been following Book Riot,
2:55.2	you know about TBR.
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