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Get Booked

Get Booked By The Numbers, or, The Final Episode

Get Booked

Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

As we conclude the 7-year-long (!) experiment that has been Get Booked, Jenn takes a moment to look back and share some numbers! MOST RECOMMENDED AUTHORS: Kate Atkinson Jade Chang Yaa Gyasi RF Kuang CL Polk Sarah McCarry Celeste Ng Check out our other podcasts at bookriot.com/listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Olivia Culpo here to tell you all about the launch of the new Abercrombie spring denim collection,

0:05.5

made the way denim should feel. Their denim has always been a staple in my wardrobe and has a wide range of fits,

0:11.4

styles, and washes. Every jean is available in both their classic fit and viral curve love.

0:17.5

Shop in the app, online, and in stores. This is Jen Northington and you are listening to the final episode of Get Booked slash the Handsell, slash Human vs. Algorithm.

0:48.1

Episode Zero aired in August of 2015 with Amanda Nelson anchoring the show, which means this has been on the air in some

0:57.1

form or another for more than seven years, which is absolutely wild. It has been hugely fun,

1:03.6

hugely educational, and not going to lie, also a huge amount of work, but it also has been

1:09.2

a labor of love. While we're sad to see it come to an end,

1:13.5

we're also always excited to see what's next here at Riot. I personally couldn't end the show

1:19.2

without doing some number crunching. Happily, we've got some decent tracking on our end,

1:24.1

and it was kind of gobsmacking to see these numbers all added together.

1:28.5

So here we go.

1:30.9

Get Booked Feed has 462 episodes in it.

1:38.0

It's a lot.

1:39.7

We had 2,680 questions asked via the request form, so almost 3,000 questions, plus many others

1:47.8

via our email inbox. There's no good way to count those. So just know there's a whole lot.

1:54.5

We do not have a good way to answer to count questions answered, but it was also a lot. I can guarantee that. In terms of books

2:05.7

that have been recommended on this show, we started tracking in 2016, and approximately

2:13.9

530 individual books per year were recommended on average. But 2016 was the outlier.

2:21.4

In 2016, there were 1,090 titles recommended because that was back when we didn't understand how to pace ourselves.

2:30.9

So, you know, that was definitely a banner year. And our top seven most

2:36.8

recommended authors in alphabetical order, not necessarily most recommended order,

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