Power Ranking the Books of 2019
01/17/24 • 69 min
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Jeff and Rebecca try to power rank the top books of 2019.
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Jeff's List:
- How to Be an Antiracist
- The Nickel Boys
- The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse
- Daisy Jones & The Six
- Red, White & Royal Blue
- She Said
- This is How You Lose the Time War
- The Yellow House
- How to Do Nothing
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Rebecca's List:
Jeff and Rebecca try to power rank the top books of 2019.
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2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up.
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Discussed in this episode:
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Jeff's List:
- How to Be an Antiracist
- The Nickel Boys
- The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse
- Daisy Jones & The Six
- Red, White & Royal Blue
- She Said
- This is How You Lose the Time War
- The Yellow House
- How to Do Nothing
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Rebecca's List:
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The Most Popular Books of the Last 10 years, a Keanu Reeves/China Mieville Team-Up, Banning Dictionaries, and Being Dumb about Oprah, and More
Jeff and Rebecca kick themselves for not seeing the obvious reason Oprah might be stumping extra-hard for The Covenant of Water, marvel at Keanu Reeves, lament banning the dictionary, and are unsurprised, mostly, with a list of the most popular books of the last ten years.
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2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up.
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