The Most Popular Books of the Last 10 years, a Keanu Reeves/China Mieville Team-Up, Banning Dictionaries, and Being Dumb about Oprah, and More

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca kick themselves for not seeing the obvious reason Oprah might be stumping extra-hard for The Covenant of Water, marvel at Keanu Reeves, lament banning the dictionary, and are unsurprised, mostly, with a list of the most popular books of the last ten years. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. Discussed in this episode: Sign up for Better Living Through Books and the BR Pod newsletter First Edition! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Book Riot contributors’ most anticipated books of 2024 This might be the reason Oprah wanted to sell a lot of copies of Covenant of Water Open AI says it can’t train LLMs without copyright material Florida county bans the dictionary Swifties fuel another literary conspiracy theory Keanu Reeves collabs on sci-fi novel with China Miéville Goodreads members’ 76 most popular books of the last decade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	This is the Book Riot Podcast.
0:32.8	I'm Jeff.
0:33.8	I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:35.8	Today we're talking about the most anticipated books of 2024,
0:40.4	not just ours, but the Book Riot,
0:42.3	larger Book Riot writing community.
0:44.8	Why Oprah may have been jumping up and down, Tom Cruise style, if not literally,
0:49.7	then figuratively, for a covenant of water, banning the dictionary. for Covenant of Water.
0:52.9	Banning the Dictionary, Taylor Swift
0:55.8	enters into our world through another literary conspiracy.
0:59.4	And more, Rebecca Shinsky, how are you?
1:03.7	I'm good.
1:04.7	I feel fully in the swing of 2024.
1:06.8	I've seen all the memes that like circle back season
1:09.6	did not wait and that is true in my experience as well. It was like straight into the deep end, but the
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