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Book Riot - The Podcast

The Books of the Decade

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News Commentary, News, Books, Tv & Film

4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca are joined by Amanda Nelson to pick the books the defined the 2010s. This episode is sponsored by: Spalding University The Severed Moon by Leigh Bardugo The Read Harder Journal Books discussed in this episode: 50 Shades of Grey by EL James Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Becoming by Michelle Obama/Fear by Bob Woodward The Testaments by Margaret Atwood The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg Wild by Cheryl Strayed the Elena Ferrante quartet (My Brilliant Friend) Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas The Martian by Andy Weir The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes Becoming by Michelle Obama The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur Dogman Volume #1 by Dave Pilkey The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo Hunger by Roxane Gay See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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For chicken worth dipping, it better be bird's eye. It's a very special episode of the Book Right podcast. We have a special topic, we have a special

0:39.6

guest. We're going to be talking about a lot of special books. It is our, the books that define the decade of the teens.

0:45.9

Is that what we're calling?

0:46.7

Is that what we're going to call them?

0:48.1

The 20 teens, I guess.

0:51.2

I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky and Amanda Nelson and we have each

0:54.6

independently picked our 10 books of the decade that we think defined the

0:58.5

decade in books and reading the metaphor I just used before we start recording

1:01.6

was if we had to make a time capsule and

1:04.5

bury it is that what you do with a time you bury it you shoot into space I don't

1:07.8

know that we're going to tell the stories of what happened in books and reading in the

1:12.0

last decade these are the ten we'd pick so they're not our favorite books the to us the most representative books.

1:23.0

And I think in talking about the books,

1:26.0

some themes will emerge about what those books themselves represent.

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