This is the book ride podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And we're, it's kind of a slow news week. We were just talking about this a little bit before. Early November, I don't know, there's a lot of, I guess on the backside, there's a lot of business happening. Like we do a lot of ad sales this time of years, people are looking at the end of the year into January.

Because in about 15 days here when Thanksgiving hits, things really fall off a cliff.

And I think we're in a bit of a little for end of year announcements, new releases, other things happening.

And not for nothing.

I think the election cycle sucked up a lot of

attention and people were pumped, especially the kind of people that are like us and work in books.

So a little bit of an eddy in the river of 2025 for book news. Yeah, we are in that lull in between

short lists being announced and book awards actually being given next week or on Monday as you're listening

to this podcast, the Booker will be announced the week after that.

The National Book Awards take place somewhere in there.

We're going to get Amazon's list of best books of the year.

It came out, I think, November 13th last year.

So I'm expecting to see that soon.

And then when those things have happened,

the last thing to wait on is the New York Times list, which will be out, you know, around Thanksgiving

usually. And that'll be it for the year until April when we find out about the Pulitzer. But in terms

of like the book stories of the year, big lists and big announcements, are about

to start hitting. The final round is about to start hitting. Goodreads Choice Awards, voting

opens in the next couple of weeks. Yeah, but it's been remarkably quiet. You know, we didn't have a

news episode last week. No. We had the, you were on with the We Need diverse books folks, and if people haven't had

a chance to listen to that important, powerful conversation, challenging, I hope that

they will take some time to do that.

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