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Hi, everybody. Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books,

culture, and what to read next. I'm Katness Everdeen. And I'm Frank. Katniss Everdeen, does everybody must know what you're referring to? Do you? Yes. The Hunger Games. Yes. I read and watched all. Did you really? I did. You read all three books? I got caught up in the, in the fury. This is a perfect intro into what I wanted to talk about today. Okay. Um, so I read, this is, this is the final throes of this best books for teens committee, which I'm sure everyone is really tired of. Was it a death match? Basically. I saw the producer on the way in this morning and I was like, I'm almost done talking

about YA books. And he was like, thank God. Except I'm not really. He said it was better this year than

last year, which is terrible. So you're in the home stretch. Okay, so home stretch. And I've read a

couple really cool things. Like this is the part where all Okay, so home stretch. And I've read a couple really cool things.

Like this is the part where all of, so there's, we started with 20 people on the committee. I think we're down to like 17 now. But where if you have a book that you read that you're really excited about, right? It's just like Hunger Games. Yeah. You have the ratio is a little better for the teen book committee. A little bit. A little bit. The Hunger Games was.

Yes, just a little.

He only lost three.

Right, right.

Three out of 20. That's nothing. But so, uh, if the, if one of the 17 remaining people is really, really excited about the book, this is the time that they now have to sort of be like, you guys, more people need to read this. Like we really want to get it on the list and it needs to have X number of votes before it actually gets on the list. And so we, this is the point where, where like, people are really passionate about certain things that they're really advocating for. So like, for instance, the Nowhere Girls by Amy Reid, which was a book we talked about last week or two weeks ago or three weeks ago or a month and a half ago, whatever, losing track of time a little.

But, by Amy Reid, which was a book we talked about last week or two weeks ago or three weeks ago,

or a month and a half ago, whatever, losing track of time a little. But that book was one that I was like, this is really important to me. I really hope that people read it, whatever. And so

the process works in a really interesting way when it kind of brings up particular aspects of

different people's personalities. So anyway, um,

there's two dystopian books that people are really sort of like having other members of the

committee read right now. Um, and I feel like they illustrate this point about whya that I've

thought about a lot, but never been able to sort of crystallize in my own mind. And it's the idea

that there's like two kinds of when you're an adult, there's sort of two kinds of why I'm looking at it. There's like one where you can understand why teens like it and are really into it. And then there's one where you really like it and are really into it as an adult. And neither one of them is good or bad. And the neither one of them precludes teens like loving the book. But so the two books that I wanted to talk about today, I feel like illustrate this point. So one of them is called Nixia. I just finished it this morning on the train. So this is a dystopian book. It's written by, and I thought this was hilarious. So it's written by Scott Rankin and his website, of course, I went to try to look up how to pronounce his name, which I often try to do before we do our podcast to try to figure out how they actually say their names, so I don't have to be like, oh, I'm so bad at pronouncing names.

So it's spelled R-E-I-N-T-G-E-N but it's pronounced Ranken and his website like his own domain is called

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