January 2024 "It Book" Knockout Round

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinsky choose the "it book" of January 2024 from a roster of 10 finalists. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: TBR! First Edition! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Read Harder 2024 is alive! Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn The Showman by Simon Shuster Come and Get It by Kiley Reid Sanctuary of the Shadow by Aurora Ascher The Fury by Alex Michaelides Beautyland by Marie-Helen Bertino The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	This is the Bookry podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:33.0	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:35.0	And today we're talking about the It Books of January 2024.
0:40.0	Happy New Year to you all.
0:42.0	Happy New Year to Rebecca., Happy New Year to Rebecca.
0:44.0	If you have not been listening along to this stick premise,
0:48.1	conceit structure that Rebecca and I have been doing over on First Edition
0:52.2	since early last year,
0:53.6	welcome aboard. Here's how it works. I have picked 10 new releases that are coming
1:01.1	out this month and we're going to go through them one by one for
1:05.4	the first book automatically advances but then for each book Rebecca and I
1:08.6	will decide mostly Rebecca because this is on her head I bear no
1:12.0	responsibility to the literary gods for any decisions
1:14.4	made here. Whether or not this is this one will survive to the next round and
1:19.8	eventually by the end we've gotten through all 10 and we will have the it book of the month.
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