Jeff and Rebecca look at the most important, memorable, strangest, and all and all most superlative stories from the year in books and reading. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!Discussed in this episode:TBR!First Edition!The Book Riot Podcast PatreonRead Harder 2024 is alive! Good job, book people: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store gets all the love; Paul Harding does not win awards for the book Jeff called “gormless”Bad job, book people: The Vaster Wilds & Let Us Descend are under-celebratedLove to See It: Pultizers expand eligibilityAudiobook moments of the year: Michelle Williams narrating Britney’s memoir; Leslie Jones’s 17-hour-long freestyle; Spotify introduces free listening for Premium membersWorst publisher response to book bans: Scholastic’s whole diversity collection situationBest publisher response to book bans: PRH takes legal action against book banning statesAchievements in Reporting: The Atlantic’s coverage of the Books 3 data set used to train LLMsMore of These Conversations: The bestseller lists are broken and Goodreads is bad for booksBiggest Mystery: WTF Oprah was up to with Covenant of WaterStill Waiting to See Its Impact: Simon & Schuster sold to KKR, TikTok plans a publishing imprintEyeballs Emoji: The BookTok hockey romance shenanigans, Bigolas Dickolas moves some units, Review Bombing AuthorNobody Asked for This: Twilight series coming to TV; HBO plans 10-year run for Harry Potter reboot Anticlimactic: Manuscript thief pleads guilty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices