Hi, everyone back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia Mentor.

And it is one of my favorite episodes we do every year. It is our best books of the year. And you all submitted so many voicemails, which made me so happy. And it's interesting because there's not a lot of overlap between our best books and the best books that the listeners told us about.

So there is just so many wrecks in this episode.

Yeah, I find it very heartwarming that everyone has a different favorite book.

Like, that's the beauty of reading.

It's wonderful.

As you said about Santa's pubic hair,

there is a lid for every pot. Yes, I'm glad that we're already back to that. Let's just keep

that going. I never left. I keep saying, by the way, like, things around the house in the past 24

hours, like, as I do, like, oh, I can't wait until that's done.

And Jake was like, if we only had Klaus.

If only, did Jake read it too?

He listened to the episode.

I love that for him, for us.

Yeah, me too.

I was surprised and delighted.

Well, before we get to the best books, I want to hear your high. My high is that I had a very nice, wintery weekday this week.

It snowed a lot here this week, which was kind of unexpected and really pretty because it stuck and it was just very cold.

But on Wednesday, I went out and I got a slow cooker.

Very exciting purchase. And we had a happy hour that night. Is it the same thing? Basically. Okay. Yeah, I think so. I think so. We had like a happy hour in Hudson with friends. And I was like, okay, I'm going to do something I've never done before, which is I'm going to put dinner in this slow cooker.

So when I get home from the happy hour, it is going to be done.

And I'm not going to be like two drinks in and the McDonald's drive-thru, which is a thing that

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