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This is the Book Wryb podcast. I'm Jeff Bono. And I'm Rebecca Schinsky. Then we come back

for the hot list again, Rebecca. We're checking on the books that are making waves. They're making moves. They're

throwing off heat. All kinds of meteorological analogies we could use for what these books are doing.

We're talking about books that have won awards, books that are pre-order hits, current bestsellers,

book club picks, adaptations, anything that might be trending on book talk, backlist books that get a relevance bump.

Like, there's no one kind of book that can be the hot list.

The hot list is a, you know it when you see it, zeitgeist situation.

So we have some carryover, some new things, and then some are vibes, some are sales, some are actual numbers that are associated with the

particular list.

I mean, we haven't really, we're working out what the hot list format's going to be as it becomes

a main feature of the regular feed on an ongoing basis.

Do we need to crown the hot book of the month?

We have the it book of the month.

But should we consider that?

I mean, we don't have to decide this now, but I'd like to enter that into the record as a possible

thing. Like, what is the hot book of the moment? Let's revisit that when we get through this list

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