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All the Books!

All the Backlist! October 25, 2024

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

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0:00.0

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

0:15.0

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

0:19.6

Today is October 25th, 2024.

0:22.6

And for this week's episode,

0:23.8

I'm going to talk about a couple of great backlist titles

0:26.2

related to the week's new releases.

0:28.9

OK, so that's kind of a lie, of like thought of a book when I heard about a different book and sort of built off that

0:38.8

But the point is that I'm going to talk about a couple of really cool backlist titles today, which is awesome.

0:45.4

Backlist is amazing and recently I've been looking into going to the library again I don't usually go I know that sounds wild

0:58.3

considering how many books I read but I just never make it out of the house. So I've been looking into maybe doing the library again

1:06.4

because Maine has an amazing interlibrary loan program because I want to start reading

1:12.2

more backlist again. I know I always say I want to read more this I want to read more everything like let's just face it I want to read more everything all the time but right now that's where I'm at, maybe going to the library for backlist.

1:24.0

So before I do that, we'll not go to library. I'm recording a podcast. I'm not going to leave to go to library.

1:30.0

But before I tell you about those titles, first we're going to hear from a sponsor.

1:37.0

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1:49.4

Every purchase you make on Bookshop.org directly funds local booksellers and

1:54.2

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1:58.7

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2:06.4

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2:14.9

So all you do is you go to Bookshop.org slash pages slash bookstores.

2:19.6

You put in your zip code and you find local bookstores that you can support by shopping

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