Power Ranking the Books of 2019

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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0:28.0	Hello and welcome, this is the Bookry of Podcast. I'm Jeff Rhely. And I'm Rebecca Schinsky.
0:35.0	And today we are power ranking the top 10 books of the year 2019, a year that is five years ago and also 50 years ago.
0:47.0	The original I guess for our people who have been alive this is the BC for us before COVID this is one I guess this is year zero
0:59.1	I don't remember how this thing happens but when we name things but this is the year zero
1:04.2	BC before COVID and looking at the list it both does and doesn't feel that way the
1:09.5	way we're gonna play this is reckon I have each power ranked 10 titles and we're going to go from
1:15.2	10 to 1 and Rebecca usually will start and she'll say what her 10 book is and if it's on my
1:20.8	list I say where it is on my list and we talk about it for a few minutes and kind of move on.
1:25.0	Rebecca, how, what very specific exacting and defensible mechanism do we use to justify our power rankings?
1:36.4	Vives, it's mostly vibes.
1:39.4	Historically, we've used things like what was a big bestseller what is continuing to be
1:44.8	popular today or what had legs after it was the year that it came out what has
1:51.4	stuck in our minds as readers or what is stuck in the
1:54.1	you know sort of the zeitgeist of readers writ large and then sometimes it's just
1:58.9	personal faves, things that we have a lot of affection for.
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