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This is the Book Riot podcast. I am Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. Hotlist time. Again, Rebecca, we're coming into the second most interesting time of the publishing season, which is summer, really now through what, mid-June, I guess, or last week through mid-June?

Yeah, like this through mid-June.

And then late August, we do get a little early fall stuff, has been creeping into late

August.

We're trying to sneak in some of the big books of fall even before Labor Day now.

But this is a really just buzz-filled time.

And things are moving really quickly.

I started our notes for this recording last week before I took PTO.

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