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You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.

This is episode 433, and today we are talking about books being released on October 3rd, 2023, and more.

I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Danica Ellis, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.

Danica, hello! Hello! I would like to start off by apologising. I have a huge headache. I completely spaced out on the couch, and you were like, hey, ready to record. And I was like, ah!

I didn't realise what time it was. Then I wrote down the wrong episode numbers and zip code numbers in the notes, so we had to start recording again.

But I think I'm all set now. Yeah. As long as I make the correct words about books, I think that's all that matters.

Yeah. Is this the biggest day of the year for book releases, or it's gotta be close?

I think it's the second biggest. I think one of the days in this spring was the biggest, but this is the biggest new release day of the last quarter of the year.

For sure. Yeah. Just enormous. And now, when I look at November 8th, December, I'm like, oh, there aren't that many books coming out, but I have to remember that there's three times as many books coming out in November 8th, then there were five years ago.

Yeah. Like publishers have really been adding books to those months, which is great. But unfortunately, I still feel like we're in this pattern where major publications are like, here are the best books of the year!

And they stop at September or October. And it's like, yeah. But there are still so many coming out. And then you have these weird zones where the books aren't chosen for the book year that they're coming out.

And then they can't go on to the best for the next year, so it's just like in this gray area. I feel bad for them.

I felt like that, but was it all the light we cannot, no, that's not right. One of my favorite books, it has like a title from last year, what is that book?

Oh, man, that's gonna, that's gonna bug me all that was in there. That's all right. You can look it up.

But it came out in December. And I remember trying to like get everybody to stop and look at this book before, but everybody is best of the year list and already come out in October, November.

Is it the one with the purple cover or with the goldfish?

Yeah, with the fish. Oh no.

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