Book Riot's Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinsky discuss the latest news in the world of books and reading, including hot new releases, adaptations, publishing indu...
Jeff and Rebecca return for the second half of our 2024 Recommendation Extravaganza.
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Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Tommy Orange
Pachinko
A Gentleman in Moscow
Kevin Wilson
Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
The Sellout
Bookshop.org
Little Blue Truck
Pete’s a Pizza
Race to the Wild
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
House on the Cerulean Sea
The Parker Inheritance
Winnie the Pooh
8 Books About Houses Haunted by More Than Ghosts
20 Must-Read Stories of Eerie Cabins & Haunted Houses
Hacienda by Isabel Canas
Ghostroots by Pemi Aguda
All the Right Notes by Dominic Lim
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
Life is Meals
Ross Gay
Year of Wonder by Clemency Burton Hill
Pig Years
Carolyn Heilbrun’s Kate Fansler Series
Eleanor Catton
Brit Bennett
Kevin Wilson
Zadie Smith
Colson Whitehead
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Pride and Prejudice
Count of Monte Cristo
House of Mirth
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell
Tana French
New Cozy Books to Snuggle Up With This Fall
Cozy Historical Fantasy
Cozy, Comforting BIPOC Books
Legends & Lattes
The Night Circus
Book with No Pictures by BJ Novak
What Do People Do All Day by Richard Scarry
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Jesmyn Ward
North Woods
The Sympathizer
23 of the Best & Swooniest Romantasy Reads
Small World by Jonathan Evison
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
East of Eden
Frederick Backman
Thursday Murder Club
Sipsworth
Creation Lake
Someone Like Us
Entitlement
People in the Trees
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Intermezzo
The Mighty Red
I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
Such a Fun Age
The Vanishing Half
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1:13:17
The Best Gift Books of 2024
Jeff and Rebecca recommend books released in 2024 that would make great gifts — for a bunch of different kinds of readers.
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
The God of the Woods
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
By The Fire We Carry
Bone of the Bone
The Serviceberry
Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts
What Goes With What
Kids Cook Anything by Mark Bittman
The Other Significant Others
Vanishing Treasures
Beautiful Creatures
Margot's Got Money Troubles
Colored Television
Knife
Smoke Kings
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Cue the Sun!
The Bright Sword
Mythos by Stephen Fry
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
The Researcher's First Murder
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2024 Holiday Recommendation Show (Part 1) + the 2024 National Book Awards
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards a little before embarking on the first of two rounds of answering listener holiday recommendation requests.
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Angie Kim
Megan Abbott
Liz Moore
Dr No
Motherless Brooklyn
The Most Fun We Ever Had
On Beauty
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Yellowface
Everything I Never Told You
Jami Attenberg
Colored Television
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
Chemistry
Margo’s Got Money Trouble
Birnam Wood
House of Cotton
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Overstory
The God of the Woods
The Trees
Barkskins
The Most
Greek Lessons
The Buddha in the Attic
Wintering
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Greta & Valdin
Michael Lewis
Steven Johnson
Hanif Abdurraquib
Challenger
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
How Big Things Get Done
Gilead
Our Souls at Night
The Woman Next Door
Educated
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
Looking for a Sign
Merry Little Meet Cute
Storied Life of AJ Fikry
Ink Blood Sister Scribe
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1:14:08
Power Ranking the Books of 1994
Jeff and Rebecca look back 30 years to 1994 and power-rank the year's most influential, important, and memorable titles.
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1:00:23
Amazon's Best Books of the Year, Goodreads Choice Voting, and More
Jeff and Rebecca talk about Amazon's best books of the year list, the pros and cons of the Goodreads Choice Awards, PW's annual salary survey, recent reading, and much more.
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Good news: most TX school board candidates who support book bans lost their elections
Amazon editors’ best books of 2024
Voting is open for the Goodreads Choice Awards
PW annual salary survey
Barnes & Noble on track to open 60 new stores this year
India’s ban on The Satanic Verses may end because of missing paperwork
Playground by Richard Powers
When the Coffee Gets Cold
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
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Book Riot's Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinsky discuss the latest news in the world of books and reading, including hot new releases, adaptations, publishing industry events, and more.
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