A preview of our most recent Patreon-only episode about the books we missed this year (though, maybe we will get to a few of them? maybe?).
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Jeff and Rebecca take a look at the hits, misses, and favorites from the year in literary adaptations.
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Jeff and Rebecca settle in to figure what 10 books from 2024 defined the year. Not the best (necessarily), the most popular (though could be), or most interesting (in many cases not), but a list that comes closest to telling the story of 2024 in reading.
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Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, joins Jeff to talk about the colossal undertaking that is making its 100 Notable Books List and its 10 Best Books of the Year List.
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Jeff and Rebecca reveal their favorite books of 2024.
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There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
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Jeff and Rebecca get into the NYT's 100 Notable and 10 Best Books of the Year list, Goodreads Choice winners, Cormac McCarthy's distressing hidden relationship, and kidney stones.
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Cormac McCarthy’s secret muse was 16 when he began a relationship with her
Costco to keep books in-store year-round in 100 locations
The NYT’s 100 notable books of the year and Top 10
Spotify reveals top audiobooks in the US & globally
Goodreads Choice Awards are as white as ever
The Tournament of Books shortlist has landed
Taylor Swift book sales best everyone but Barack
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Jeff and Rebecca do a few more holiday recommendations before talking about nine interesting new books coming in December and then taking stock of their monthly It Book guesses.
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Our Full Year It Books Finalists and Picks
The Rest is Memory by Lily Tuck
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Jeff and Rebecca return for the second half of our 2024 Recommendation Extravaganza.
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The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Tommy Orange
Kevin Wilson
Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Bookshop.org
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
Winnie the Pooh
8 Books About Houses Haunted by More Than Ghosts
20 Must-Read Stories of Eerie Cabins & Haunted Houses
All the Right Notes by Dominic Lim
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong
Ross Gay
Year of Wonder by Clemency Burton Hill
Carolyn Heilbrun’s Kate Fansler Series
Eleanor Catton
Brit Bennett
Kevin Wilson
Zadie Smith
Colson Whitehead
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell
Tana French
New Cozy Books to Snuggle Up With This Fall
Book with No Pictures by BJ Novak
What Do People Do All Day by Richard Scarry
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Jesmyn Ward
23 of the Best & Swooniest Romantasy Reads
Small World by Jonathan Evison
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Frederick Backman
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
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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
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts
Kids Cook Anything by Mark Bittman
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
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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
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Jami Attenberg
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Michael Lewis
Steven Johnson
Hanif Abdurraquib
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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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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