All the books to read this summer!!!
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Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This week, we ask voracious reader Liberty Hardy to rave about the best books coming out this summer. Liberty is the host of the Book Riot podcast ‘All the Books!’ She and Greta trade their top picks.
Here are the titles in the order that they’re mentioned in the episode:
- ‘Fire Exit’ by Morgan Talty (6/3)
- ‘The Ministry of Time’ by Kaliane Bradley (5/7)
- ‘The Stardust Grail’ by Yume Kitasei (6/1)
- ‘Oye’ by Melissa Mogollon (5/14)
- ‘Margo's Got Money Troubles’ by Rufi Thorpe (6/11)
- ‘The God of the Woods’ by Liz Moore (7/2)
- ‘Bear’ by Julia Phillips (6/25)
- ‘Hum’ by Helen Phillips (8/6)
- ‘The Most’ by Jessica Anthony (7/30)
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| 0:38.8 | We did it. |
| 0:39.9 | We made it to another weekend. |
| 0:44.6 | And to celebrate today's episode is all about summer books. |
| 0:48.7 | 2024 has already been an epically great year for books. |
| 0:52.3 | And here to tell us about some of her picks for the summer is the Liberty Hardy. |
| 0:55.2 | She is the host of Book Riot's All the Books podcasts and reads more than literally anyone else I know. Liberty, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:00.4 | Hello, thank you for having me. Do you agree with my characterization that 2024 has just |
| 1:05.8 | been like a great fucking book year? The best. Right? I feel like the last three years, I read through the whole year ago, I haven't really |
| 1:15.0 | loved anything. |
| 1:15.8 | Without I get to the end of the year and I'm like, oh yeah, I loved that. |
| 1:18.1 | But like this is just right off the back. |
| 1:20.8 | Just like bangers. |
| 1:22.2 | It's so exciting. |
| 1:23.4 | Amazing. |
| 1:24.5 | So before we jump into it, I would love to know, like, do you have, like, what do you think is the perfect summer book? |
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