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This is a bookwreck podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And it's time for the It Books of the Month for October 20, 25. Rebecca, seems like a, there's not like, sometimes in drafts, they say there's no generational but it's a deep draft and i'm kind of feeling that way about the fall like there's a lot here but i'm not having to hide anything i'm not there's nothing i'm having to like put at the end because i'm worried it's going to nuke everything out so that's kind of i'm feeling about the fall i don't know is that jive with you It jives with me. I think that's right. We have a lot of recognizable names coming out this fall, a couple really

long anticipated books. Some of those were September, some of them October or later. Usually

October feels like the bigger month to me. Yeah. But September had a lot of heat. And I think we are settling into October, has some names.

November looks pretty quiet, and then December tends to be a little bit of a desert.

I thought November looked pretty good as I was putting this together. Maybe I'm

selecting a different way. I'm not deep into November prep yet, so I'll take your word for it.

So if this is your first time joining us, this is how it goes. I have selected, usually 10. I have 11 this time just for fun. We're in charge. And we take them one by one, and it's knockout round style. So the first one automatically advances, but then the second one will consider them head-to-head. Rebecca will talk with me about which of them should advance.

Usually it's her decision, and I'm merely advice and consent.

Sometimes to prevent her from making an egregious error, that happens very rarely,

but every now and I'm like, I'm not sure we can allow this to happen.

The occasional veto is welcome.

Yeah, yeah, some perspective in context there.

And our heuristics are our own, but there's something

along the lines of artistic merit, critical, I don't know, acclaim, possibility, how much

of buzz there are behind them, sales, art, all the things that go into it to put into this primord

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