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This is the Book Riot podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And it's time for the It Books of November. Sometimes November can be a little slim pickens. I didn't have much trouble finding 10 here. I've got a couple honorable mentions. You know, it wasn't, it's not stack, but there's enough to keep most readers interested, uh, to some degree. And I don't know. I feel like there's more November

releases out. I mean, for example, there's a Rushdie we'll talk about. And November 7th is a weird

date for that. Why is that November 7th, Rebecca? I don't know. I was looking at that as well.

Like mid-October has been,

has been really stacked. We're coming out of a really big reading month. September was pretty

significant as well. But November, I agree, does not look as quiet as November's can be.

December is a different story. I'm interested in what we're going to do here together next month.

Yeah, November 7th is a really interesting day. Maybe on the roosty part, like you're a publisher,

you're looking for a day where somebody with a name like that isn't sharing the spotlight

with so many, with quite as busy of a release day. But there are also, it seems like that just happens. I've started

working on like our database of new releases for the spring of 2026. And they're just our days

where books cluster. And I don't know what to make of it. I'm through five out of the six big

catalogs I want to get to. And there's like two books on March 3rd.

Like, why does nobody like March 3rd? I don't know.

Curious. So we're going to get the It Books in a moment. Programming notes, in the Patreon feed right now,

we power-ranked our top 10 books each from Amazon's list of the 25 best books of the centuries

so far in which they just basically relisted their number one picks. They didn't go redrafts,

which I respect them, like we're going to try to hold on to these takes. I think you get more

points per take if you hold the take, you know? Yes. Take times time equals value, I guess, there.

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