Book Riot - The Podcast Book Riot

Jeff and Rebecca finish off the season's recommendation requests, talk about Salman Rushdie's Knife, answer a few mailbag questions, and more.
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Discussed in this episode:
Kelly Jensen named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker
Knife by Salman Rushdie
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
Small World by Jonathan Evison
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
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Jeff and Rebecca spend a few minutes talking about yesterday's announcement of the 2024 Pulitzer prizes before getting into more book recommendations for moms, dads, grads, and others.
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Discussed in this episode:
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
S.A. Cosby
The Iceberg by Marion Coutts
What Looks Like Bravery by Laurel Braitman
On Living by Kerry Egan
Real Self-Care by Pooja Lakshmin
The Cartographers by Peng Sheperd
The Will of the Many by James Islington
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Kazuo Ishiguro
Maggie O’Farrell
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
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Girl at War by Sara Novic
10 Must-Read Books by Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard-of-Hearing Authors
Alibis by André Aciman
A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko
NK Jemisin 
The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak
This Strange, Eventful History by Claire Messud
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Stephen Graham Jones
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
The House of Char by Scott Hawkins
The Hacienda by Isabelle Cañas
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
Dark Academia Authors
What is Dark Academia
Recent Dark Academia Books
Birnam Wood
Peter Heller
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu
Company by Shannon Sanders
Eclipse Fever by Walter Abish
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Jeff and Rebecca compete to create the best collection of 10 upcoming releases.
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Part 1 of our 2024 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Extravaganza, in which Jeff and Rebecca answer listener book recommendations requests.
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Books and authors recommended in this episode:
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Brandon Taylor
Lauren Groff
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
The Wager by David Grann
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Jane Harper
Walter Mosley
Joe Ide
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
The Searcher by Tana French
The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Cast, Catch, Release by Marina Gibson - coming June 4
Standing in a River Waving a Stick by John Gierach
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
The Longest Silence by Thomas McGuane
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
George Saunders
The Hike by Drew Magary
Pym by Mat Johnson
Tiffany Reisz
Sierra Simone
Kennedy Ryan
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
The Change Room by Karen Connelly
Bake Me a Story by Nadiya Hussain
America’s Test Kitchen Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs
How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Real Work by Adam Gopnik
Hammerhead by Nina MacLaughlin
Spartina by John Casey
All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
Wait by Gabriella Burnham - coming May 21
The Celebrants by Stephen Rowley
Siracusa by Delia Ephron
Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Erasure by Percival Everett
James by Percival Everett
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
There There by Tommy Orange
Stay True by Hua Hsu
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Anita de Monte Laughs Laughs by Xochitl Gonzalez
Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson
The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser
A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole by Michelle Cuevas
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Jeff and Rebecca try to figure out what the "it book" of May 2024 will be.
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Discussed in this episode:
Book Riot on Instagram
Book Riot on TikTok (be merciful)
TBR! For Mother’s Day! Or anyone on any day!
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland
Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
All Fours by Miranda July
Exhibit by R.O. Kwon
Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
Coming Home by Brittney Griner
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Sharifah joins Jeff to talk about parenting books, recent reading, adaptation news, and a scheme involving QR codes that it just might work.
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Discussed in this episode:
Book Riot on Instagram
Book Riot on TikTok (be merciful)
TBR! For Mother’s Day! Or anyone on any day!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Americans Buy Over a Billions Books a Year
Trailer for Netflix’s adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude, coming out later this year
Plus: Thursday murder club casting, Project Hail Mary, Transcendent Kingdom casting
Crazy Rich Asians coming to Broadway
Knife by Salman Rushdie
They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lowrey
Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy
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