This is the bookwrap podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And it's time, Rebecca.

It Books of the Month for the biggest month of the publishing year, September. It's a big one.

It's not as stacked as we've seen in sub-September as there was the great Whitehead Smith, whatever.

I can't remember what year that was. Two years ago, the fraud. Yeah, we had a run of, was the great Whitehead Smith, whatever. I can't remember what

year that was. Two years ago, the fraud. Yeah, we had a run of, yeah, Zadie Smith, Colson,

Whitehead, I think Louise Erdrick, Jonathan Franzen, like everybody was all stacked up together.

So some of that is, some of the stuff has gotten pushed to October, but still a pretty good

lineup here to say, if this is your first time joining us,

what I have done is I have combed catalog preview list, you know, look-aheads, buzz

panels, all the things where I can go. And I made a list initially of 19 titles. I've winnowed

that down to 10. Not an easy task this month.

We go through them one by one and Rebecca decides whether that one survives or leaves, you know,

exit stays right until we have one remaining. The first one automatically goes through to the end.

And then, you know, we have the It Book of the Month.

I'll do honorable mentions or other notable things at the end.

The other thing that we're basing this on is a combination of critical acclaim,

artistic excellence, sales, zeitgeist, put it all in there.

It's Itbook for a reason.

That noun is sufficiently Book for a reason.

That noun is sufficiently vague for purposes here.

We know what and we see it, but we also have a little bit of sense of what we're looking at here.

Rebecca, do you have, I didn't move anything around.

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