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Book Riot - The Podcast

The Year in Review

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca look at the most important, memorable, strangest, and all and all most superlative stories from the year in books and reading. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Discussed in this episode: TBR! First Edition! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Read Harder 2024 is alive!  Good job, book people: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store gets all the love; Paul Harding does not win awards for the book Jeff called “gormless” Bad job, book people: The Vaster Wilds & Let Us Descend are under-celebrated Love to See It: Pultizers expand eligibility Audiobook moments of the year: Michelle Williams narrating Britney’s memoir; Leslie Jones’s 17-hour-long freestyle; Spotify introduces free listening for Premium members Worst publisher response to book bans: Scholastic’s whole diversity collection situation Best publisher response to book bans: PRH takes legal action against book banning states Achievements in Reporting: The Atlantic’s coverage of the Books 3 data set used to train LLMs More of These Conversations: The bestseller lists are broken and Goodreads is bad for books Biggest Mystery: WTF Oprah was up to with Covenant of Water Still Waiting to See Its Impact: Simon & Schuster sold to KKR, TikTok plans a publishing imprint Eyeballs Emoji: The BookTok hockey romance shenanigans, Bigolas Dickolas moves some units, Review Bombing Author Nobody Asked for This: Twilight series coming to TV; HBO plans 10-year run for Harry Potter reboot  Anticlimactic: Manuscript thief pleads guilty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:27.6

This is the Book Ride Podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I am Rebecca Schitts. And today it's our year in review the news that made what was the world of books and reading in 2023.

0:46.0

This is our last episode of 2023.

0:48.0

We will be back in January

0:50.0

with regular episodes per week. New show on Mondays. Well that's the show we usually do.

0:57.0

And then the new ones will drop on Wednesdays. This can be all kinds of stuff you're going to see there. Of course, Patreon,

1:05.0

Patreon.com slash book, Riot Podcast.

1:08.0

We've had a mini surge of people signing up. Thank you so much for doing that. It's very gratifying, makes us feel very good.

1:15.5

Very happy to have you. We like to think it's because we are bright and sparkly. It could be because the

1:21.4

teasers in the feed are saying, hey, these are things that I might actually like to hear about end of year I don't know but we really do appreciate all of you

1:28.8

To support us directly over on patreon and we're gonna be I guess especially interested in the new year

1:34.1

from all listeners about what you like and don't like about these extra shows that we're

1:38.4

going to do because it's not going to be us doing this another show of news

1:41.0

for the week we're going to be trying some stuff, bringing some stuff over

1:44.5

from First Edition, bringing stuff that we had done previously Patreon in front of the paywall,

1:50.3

and it's going to be a time of an experimentation and expansion so please please do let us know and

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