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This is the book ride podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Schinsky. Welcome to 2026.

Welcome to 2020. We are officially now in 20206. We are. We are.

We are. Actually show up a little bit later. We ourselves are physically in 2020.

Physically, temporally, content-wise, in 2026.

This is our first new episode of the year dropping on Monday, January 5th.

And in this episode, we are going to be talking about our most anticipated books of the year.

Now, having said that, a lot of the fall is a squiggly smudge mark at this point. We know a couple of things,

and some of those things will be appearing on this list. Through about July, Rebecca,

I think we kind of know. I think there still could be some surprises coming for the fall for us.

So this is the only way it works in book. In movies,

it's kind of a similar way. Sometimes later you get award season, things pushed back around.

I know less about some other industries, music. I assume things get moved around. But as far as we

can do a look ahead, we're doing a look ahead today. Yeah, like in practicality, this is a list for January through early July.

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