The It Books of August, 2024

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca consider 10 contenders for the It Book of August. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: What is Going on with Book Sales? Episode of First Edition Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa There Are Rivers by Elif Shafak Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer The Art of Power by Nancy Pelosi House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias Burn by Peter Heller Hum by Helen Phillips All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield The Pairing by Casey McQuiston Peggy by Rebecca Godfrey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Deadpool here. We're very excited to be joining you, but we should set the table correctly.
0:05.4	We're mostly going to make enemies with Disney and make a lot of jokes at huge expense.
0:09.4	Come again.
0:10.4	So sit back, relax, while we travel to a place where grown men and women walk around in
0:16.2	tights and act like it's not a giant cultural cry for help.
0:19.8	Because this is cinema.
0:23.0	Oh my God.
0:25.0	Marvel Studios Deadpool and Wolverine in Cinemas Thursday July 25th.
0:30.0	If just thinking about your bills makes you feel confused and disorientated,
0:35.0	like your head is full of Raspberry, then you need Monzo.
0:40.0	Download your new favourite bank and pay bills from custom pots.
0:45.0	Money never felt like Monzo.
0:48.0	UK residents, Tease and see supply.
0:50.0	This is the Book Rive Podcast.
0:54.0	I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:55.0	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:56.0	And today we are talking about the It Books of August of 2024.
1:02.0	It will be a seven minute episode. We have one and a half
1:05.7	contender. It's a slow month Rebecca. I don't know what to tell you.
1:08.5	August just is slow. I noticed on a couple of the big papers this week
1:12.8	or when I was reading them online
1:14.7	that it's like books to read for the rest of the summer
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