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Okay, it's been a crazy year so far and there's a lot more to come.

But you don't need us to tell you that.

Change begins now.

And we have an election to win.

I'm Michael Safi.

And I'm Helen Pitt, and we're the host of Today in

Focus the Guardian's Daily News Podcast. Every day we'll be getting behind the

global headlines and offer deep dives on lesser known stories you might not

realize are impacting you so that you'll take away

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Spotify This is the Book Cry podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.

And I'm Rebecca Schinsky.

And today we are talking about the books of 2004.

We're power ranking. The ten books that defined the year of 2004.

20 years ago, Rebecca, this exercise was a lot less fun than the 2003 year.

Let me put it that way.

Yes.

It was a tough hang in 2004.

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