Power Ranking The Books of 2014

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🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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0:27.8	This is the Bookwright Podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:30.3	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:31.8	And today we are power ranking the top most powerful books of 2014.
0:40.0	Is it a ranking of their power? Because I might need to do some reconsidering.
0:45.0	It's the long history, right?
0:47.0	So now we're 10 years later from 2014 and we're looking at the 10 books that sort of ended up to matter in all the kinds of ways.
0:55.5	If you want to, if you've been following along with our it books discussion, it's maybe the, it's the 10-year
0:59.9	check-in.
1:00.9	We're getting the wine out of the cellar see how we've aged here and you know we're
1:06.0	going to talk about them in ten to one we'll each has done our list independently and
1:12.1	then I'll say okay Rebecca was your number 10 and we'll talk
1:14.3	about them as they go and I guess that's kind of it before we get into it too much
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