This is the Book Riot Podcast.

It's weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking about in the world

of books and reading.

Today is Friday, December 9, 2022.

I'm Jeff O'Neill here with the Bekersinski coming to you from BookRiet.com.

We continue to sort of clear the mechanism of 2022 content. I think you have heard us say that this episode was going to be the best of

the rest, but we're switching it up. That's going to be on the Patreon and this is the books of

the year. Not our favorite books, not the best books,

but what were the books of the year?

And we could maybe get into some semantic discourse

about what we mean by that.

If you want the best of the rest,

and which Rebecca and I talk about underwear, push pop things you put on your face,

that's really it that we talked, no, we talked about some some other things that's on the

Patreon book right excuse me patreon.com slash book grant podcast but it's books of

the year time let's spend a minute on what this means we haven't discussed what this is, though we've done this before,

so we kind of know what it is, but what books were the books of the year? If you were going to tell the story of 2022 in books, what book or books would you pick?

You can probably tell ready some slippage in book of the year to books of the year.

I'm tipping my hand about how I'm going about this or how I thought about this.

You know, what made waves, what's going to be notable,

what sold the whole bunch, what created conversation,

controversy, or at least some sort of awareness around a book

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