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Book Riot - The Podcast

The List of the Best-Selling Books in the UK from the Last 50 Years is Wild.

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News Commentary, News, Books, Tv & Film

4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa joins Jeff to stare slack-jawed at a list of the best-selling books from the last five decades in the UK, talk about recent book-banning news, wince at some PR pack-ins, and more. 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! Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon The 100 bestselling books of the past 50 years High school shuts down its library because of book-banning state law One Year After DeSantis Takeover, Florida’s New College Throws Out Hundreds of LGBTQ+ Books Walmart Celebrates Emily Henry Adapter Yulin Kuang’s Spicy Debut Novel With Limited-Edition Hot Sauce Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Highlight Domestic Violence in It Ends With Us After Backlash Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the book ride podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill and I am here today with Vanessa Diaz.

0:06.0

Rebecca is out. I'm not actually sure that I knew I was recording to you until you

0:10.0

message me this morning. I've been out for two weeks.

0:12.0

COVID is flowing through our house like a

0:15.6

either tropical, the the trade winds right now. I'm the only one still standing and even that is

0:21.6

maybe a little bit in dial but Vanessa

0:23.8

thanks for joining me today Vanessa put all the links in we're really

0:26.9

shooting from the hip a little more than I'm used to and that is saying

0:29.3

something because we tend to be Wyatt Erp and Wild Bill anyway.

0:33.6

But it's really fast and loose, Vanessa.

0:36.0

Today, how are you doing?

0:37.0

Great, it's fine.

0:38.3

It's a Monday morning, we are here, we're doing things.

0:41.8

That's right, we get to record, I have another meeting, I'm going to

0:43.9

and it's going to be out the door, so in like 120 minutes from when I record this, it's

0:47.9

going to be out in the world. Vanessa picks some interesting links out. We're kind of doing the thing you pick eight

0:54.4

then I'll do three and some of these things are I think are worth talking about.

0:58.9

This is the time of the show where I'd normally be like okay here's what to look for coming this week and we're doing on the show. I have no idea what's happening. So we're just throwing to the first break and then we're coming back.

1:13.4

Today's episode is brought to you by Hanover Square Press. For over 40 years, Jane Rosenberg has been at the heart of the news cycle,

1:17.0

covering almost every major trial that has passed through the New York Justice System

1:20.6

as a courtroom sketch artist.

1:22.7

Rosenberg brings us into the dramatic high stakes world of her craft

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