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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca talk about authors they think are underrated. Even if only a little. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Want to make your book club the best club? Sign up for our In the Club newsletter. In the Club will deliver recommendations for the best books to discuss in your book clubs. From buzzy new releases to brilliant throwbacks, the books highlighted in this newsletter will drive your book club discussions. We’ll also share some book club-friendly recipes and interesting bookish updates from all over. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features. In other words, we’ll keep you well-met, well-read, and well-fed. Sign up today! Discussed in this Episode: First Edition! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	This is the Book Grab podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:35.0	And I'm a little groggy. Today is Wednesday, March 27, 2024.
0:40.0	I was in New York for work and I was a couple days off and had a long weekend in Seattle
0:45.3	Got back last night. It's early morning here on the left coast
0:50.6	Rebecca was capting the good ship
0:52.6	R&MG most not by yourself but was the most senior person doing a bunch of stuff
0:59.3	we're back we're talking about today underrated authors. This came out of a conversation we had in
1:07.3	anticipation of the publication of Heaven's Grocery Store by James McBride
1:10.7	when we were both looking forward to it and I think we had both
1:14.8	read it and liked it and really thought it was something special but before
1:19.2	the deluge of sales and accolades for that book principally in the form of it's it was
1:25.6	still top eight top ten in hardcover fiction last week when I looked at
1:29.3	P. W's I haven't looked at this week public Pw's it was both Amazon and Barnes and Noble's book of the year
1:35.7	I did a mini tour of bookstores while I was in New York in Seattle and Envirens face out front table on almost every store.
1:45.0	The only reason I'm saying almost is I didn't actually do a check mark,
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