Hey readers, I'm Ann Bogel and this is not what should I read next.

This is my new podcast One Great Book, a show where each week I pull one standout selection

of my personal bookshelves and tell you all about it.

If you're in the comic books, you know everyone loves an origin story.

I am not into comic books, but I love hearing the origins and behind-the-scenes stories

of how the books and bookish adjacent things I love came to be.

This show's origin story starts at the beach where many great reading adventures begin.

Last summer, I was on vacation and pulled from the milk crate full of books we packed to take

on vacation, a paperback that I was particularly excited to read. I snapped a photo for

a bookstore and said, hey readers, I read this by the pool and now I kind of trashed the cover.

Are you horrified? I was very surprised by what you all said back. You didn't care a bit about

the splashes on the cover. Instead, you were so excited to see there was a new book out by this

particular author you loved. But the thing is, it wasn't a new book and that's when I decided I

needed to tell people not just about this book that had been published all the way back in 2012,

but about all the great books that flew under the radar or got buried at the bottom of your

to-be red pile. On what should I read next? I talked to a guest each week who shares the

read books they love, one book they don't, and what they're reading now, and then we do a little

literary matchmaking. Each week, I try to find the right book for that particular reader and all

of the listeners who not along in their cars and homes saying, I love those books too.

What we don't really do is talk about my favorite books weekend and week out. Sometimes there's

a great book I want to recommend to people on the podcast, but it just isn't the right title for

any particular guest. On this show, I get to share books I love, and if you listen closely as to

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