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Book Riot - The Podcast

The "It" Books of April

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the "it" books of the month. And struggle to pronounce Amor Towles. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: First Edition! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez Table for Two by Amor Towles The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo Reboot by Justin Taylor The Real Americans by Rachel Khong Funny Story by Emily Henry The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson Knife by Salman Rushdie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Book Right podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neil. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And today we're talking about the It

0:36.3

Books of April, the books that we think, or I guess I think I picked 10 that are contenders to be the It Book of April and then Rebecca helps me winnow

0:46.4

them down and by helps me means she does it herself and I take no responsibility for how wrong

0:52.0

or right the pick may with occasional input nudging and a very

0:57.4

occasional veto I will try to keep you from doing something really barbaric let's put

1:02.3

it that way to paraphrase. Or well, I guess a couple

1:05.3

programming notes. If you are interested in the Book Right Podcast newsletter, newsletter went out last night.

1:14.0

Usually to go up on Friday, I had a bit of a mess of a Friday and it's like, you know what,

1:17.6

I'm not going to do it late Friday night or Saturday morning.

1:19.8

I'm doing it Sunday night for that Sunday night slash early Monday wake up there trying a little

1:24.8

experiment there you can see a couple things one is I had a really wonderful trip to

1:29.8

Seattle with my family last week the weekend before last I don't know how you do this

1:34.1

we need time I'm sure the Germans have a word for nine days ago and we

1:40.4

spend a good couple of hours at Elliot Bay Books in Seattle and it got me thinking about I think it's pretty close to my perfect bookstore. It's not perfect.

1:48.5

And it let me think about what are the elements that go into my perfect bookstore and I

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