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Book Riot - The Podcast

Booker Prize Shortlist, a new WUTHERING HEIGHTS Adaptation, and More Book News of the Week

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca digest the five finalists for the 2024 Booker Prize, talk about some upcoming literary adaptations, developments in the world of book banning and censorship, and hit some recent reading. 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! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: PRH hires a public policy role ALA reports 40% decline in book bans this year so far Booker Prize shortlist  The 60 most popular books on Goodreads in the last 5 years Florence Pugh to start in East of Eden adaptation for Netflix The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the book Ryan podcast and I am indeed Jeff O'Neil.

0:03.6

I'm Rebecca Shinsky.

0:04.8

And I definitely just cut out me being a complete idiot

0:08.0

and waiting for Rebecca and getting mad or by the second

0:10.8

when I should have been saying something.

0:12.2

So that was cool. That was in the show, not at all. Today we are talking about the Booker Prize Short list being announced. We're talking about the ALAs report on a decrease eyes

0:26.0

emoji in bookbands. Another notable news of the week and reading Rebecca how are

0:31.3

you? I'm doing great. I have recovered from travel last week in New York I didn't have jet lag so I was a little bit ahead of you on that and we had a really great time talking about Intermezzo yesterday, which is what I spent the first half of my week thinking about. So, yeah, I said that we had this. We were trying to record that a day earlier than we did and I you know I was like I've

0:54.3

stayed up till 11 o'clock before reading and it's a book that I'm into and then about

0:58.8

830 on Monday night the jet lag was like oh it was three hours ahead in New York and the system

1:04.9

shut down and so we recorded a little bit later.

1:07.2

So it goes.

1:08.2

But yeah, had a great time and into this like back half of the week it feels like a kind of quiet like on the

1:16.7

normal to quiet side of bookish news this week some front list to talk about I see you've got some listener feedback. I'm curious

1:24.6

about what that's going to be. Well, first of all, if several people wrote in

1:28.0

notes to say they like the Is It Good format. So thank you for saying that.

1:32.1

And it's really Sally Rooney Week on the bookish. It really, it kind of quieted down with pub day. I have to say a lot of people were getting their reviews out a little bit earlier. And it's not the kind of book that's going to have a lot of

1:49.2

super hot takes associated with, I don't think. The ones I've seen out there are,

1:54.7

I mean, I can see, for example,

1:56.7

one that's being passed around

1:58.0

is why are all the characters thin?

2:00.2

An interesting question,

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