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Book Riot - The Podcast

Our Favorite Reads of 2020

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News, Books, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca recount their favorite reads of 2020. Discussed in this episode: Intimations by Zadie Smith Eat a Peach by David Chang The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry Group by Christie Tate The Switch by Beth O’Leary The Wisdom of Finance by Mihir Desai Deacon King Kong by James McBride Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Crosby The Lost Man by Jane Harper Weather by Jenny Offill See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Book Riot Podcast. We talk about what's new, cool, and we're talking about the

0:09.2

world of books and reading. And this week, what's cool and worth talking about some of them are new is our

0:15.1

favorite reads of the year. This is our second go around with this. Blah blah

0:18.8

blah. Hardware hardware computer computer. I actually added a different and I read something last week that makes my list, so it's

0:25.6

up to date fresh and hot off the press.

0:27.8

Okay.

0:28.8

Maybe the most Jeff book I've read this year, which is saying something because I've gone down.

0:34.0

Is it a history of business and ten business books?

0:37.0

Um close but it's worse than that.

0:39.0

Oh God.

0:40.0

So that's what we call it tease in the business.

0:44.0

So these aren't new books necessarily.

0:47.0

Some of them are just the things we've been reading.

0:49.0

And we'll talk about them for a little bit.

0:52.0

Before you do that, let's take our first sponsor break. and we'll talk about them for a little bit.

0:52.6

Before you do that, let's take our first sponsor break.

0:58.3

Today's episode is brought to you by Hashet Audio.

1:01.9

Three years ago, Sports Agent Myron Balatar gave a eulogy at the funeral of his client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing. So why, you may ask, is Greg now being placed at the scene of a double, not a singular, but a double homicide? I also wonder.

1:21.0

So Greg Downing, who Myron gave a eulogy for is a suspect and Myron needs some

1:29.6

answers so Myron and Wynne longtime friends and, set out to find the truth, but the more they discover about Greg, the more dangerous the world becomes.

1:38.0

Secrets lies in a murderous conspiracy that stretches back into the past,

1:42.6

churn at the heart of Harlan Cobain's blistering new novel,

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