The Readers' List of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Predicting Obama's Summer Reading List, and more.

Book Riot - The Podcast

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca are back to do more discussion of The New York Times's list of the Best Books of the 21st Century, go over the reader version of the list, predict what books we think are the most likely to make Obama's summer reading list, talk about their recent reading, 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! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century NYT reveals readers’ top 100 Slow Productivity by Cal Newport State of Paradise by Laura Van Den Berg The Coin by Yasmin Zaher The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraquib James by Percival Everett Fire Exit by Morgan Talty The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson The Women by Kristin Hannah The Searcher by Tana French Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Book Grant Podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:03.0	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:05.0	And today we continue what our jobs are now, which is to talk about the New York Times
0:09.2	listmaking. That's all we do now.
0:11.4	There's a whole 100 best books of the century.org. That's our that's our company. That's our job. I'm changing my name to that. This is what we are now.
0:22.0	I'm not sad about it. This is one of the most... Did I say it was
0:25.4	sad? I didn't say it was sad. I just said that's the truth. It's great. Yeah, this is one of the
0:29.0	most successfully engaging pieces of bookish content that I've seen in my time working on the internet.
0:38.0	And my civilian friends are saying things like, you know, most of the book lists on the internet don't really get
0:45.1	me fired up or I don't care, but this one was interesting. It's fun to see what people are saying
0:49.9	about it. The design was great where you could hit the little tick boxes of which ones you had read and which ones you wanted
0:56.3	to read.
0:58.2	It's got all it's got people talking.
0:59.7	They've done tons of follow-up.
1:00.8	They had planned a ton of content to go around it with other pieces related to some of the titles. of a media organization that has a big budget and cool resources and creative smart people
1:15.1	has a year to work on something really fun.
1:19.1	It's been a good time.
1:20.3	It's the invading Europe of bookish internet content. It just is. I can see what they've done and the arrangement and the resources and
1:27.5	Again if you if you're listening to this I'm sure you listen to us talk to Gilbert Cruz
1:32.2	Which was fantastic probably one of the my
1:34.6	favorite episodes we've ever done just in terms of talking to him and what we learned
1:38.1	and our interest in our own excitement are we in the bag for it because we got surveys
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