What Are Being Called The Best Books of the Year...So Far?

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about Jeff's breakdown of a bunch of Best of 2024 So Far lists, dive into a listener-created spreadsheet of It Books, talk about Oprah's summer book club selection, and much 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: Find Other Book Riot Fans (Social Media Handle Exchange) The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Oprah’s summer book club pick is…woof Goodreads’ most popular books of the year so far Jeff rounded up the best-of-2024-so-far lists Let’s talk about Sophia’s amazing It Book tracker Pod newsletter with the explainer for it Grief is For People by Sloane Crosley There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself by Glynnis MacNicol Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.5	This is the book right podcast I'm Jeff O'Neil and I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:31.5	Today we're talking about well what are we doing we're doing summer book club picks
0:37.3	Oprah's got a new one out for summer best of 2024 so law so far a meta
0:42.1	analysis done by yours truly Goodreads most popular books of the year
0:47.9	a truly fantastic creation from a book riot podcast listener we're going to get into and then of course
0:55.1	our recent reading it has been it's it's the weather here has been so good it's like
1:02.1	68 degrees and low humidity and a breeze.
1:05.0	It's like the kind of weather I was saying to one of our co-workers say you want to say yes to everything?
1:09.0	You want to go drink? Yes. You want to go for a walk? Yes. You want to walk to the store to pick something up? Yes. Do you want to clean the gutters? Yeah, I will do that. Do you want to prune the trees? Yep, let's go do it. Everything is in yes today.
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1:23.2	So are you are you cicated?
1:24.8	What's your cicata sitch?
1:26.2	What's the cicata watch doing?
1:27.8	Like kind of as a bumper so far, we are not cicated.
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