Hot List Check in for January 2025 [Teaser]
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of the year transitional shoulder season when it comes to hot lists and check-ins and zeitgeist on the whole. So I've got two categories here. There's the first category, which is I'm pretty sure they count. Okay. And the next are, I wonder...

And Rebecca, you might say, well, if you wonder, then they're not, which I understand. But the whole, I only have 17 total titles. So this is not a 50 situation. Let's wonder about them together. The bar has been raised, right? Like in a high jump competition. So we're going to have fewer candidates, but maybe all of these contenders can get over. So the ones I'm pretty sure about, Onyx Storm coming out. It's going to be huge. We don't need to talk about this anymore.

Yeah, no. There we go. Press release from Indigo in Canada said they have more pre-orders for this one than for the previous ones. Yeah. So it seems like readership continues to build. Terrific for all of them. Yeah. James, number one hardcover fiction last week. Picking up steam. End of year list, I think, really helped people and all the stuff going on with that. Yeah. I'm going to stay in the zeitgeist at least until Pulitzer season. Which is what, April? March, April. Yeah. Yeah.

It's going to be, yeah, it's...

Again, often a book like this does carry into the next year. Yeah, and you know, I haven't gone and checked yet if they've got a paperback release scheduled. They wouldn't. Because it's done well enough. There's no will. They shouldn't. If they do, they shouldn't. Yeah, right. Stop that. Don't do that. Right. It's been going well enough that they could justify keeping this in hardcover for a while. It's just now occurring to me that maybe they're thinking about paperback, but it seems too soon. I guess while we're on the James tip, I've got a category of big books of 2024 that I still think matter.

um i've got the women top three okay i've got intermezzo the universe i see some people picking it up i've seen pete continues to sell it's on recommended i don't know pretty sure but it's still a rooney and people are finding it yeah i haven't seen much chatter about it but if it's still selling yeah and then god of the woods people are going to be buying that book into this my mom read god of the woods like it's going mainstream it's going mainstream

Actually, I think God of the Woods started out mainstream and it's just getting mainstream-er. It's mainstream, but there's a lot of books that are published with the intention of being mainstream. Right, yes, and that don't actually break out. Yeah, that one has gone. It's to the people who read four to six books a year category at this point. I don't think it's gone to the one or two year or it needs to be Crawdads or Fourth Wing, frankly, but it could. Yeah.

um all right and then a late two december releases i'm putting rental house in here a lot of people love this book do it i support this uh sharifa read it she really loved it i'm seeing a lot of a lot of our readers frankly i'm seeing people that we that we talked about and they've picked up our listeners i guess um

So I'll reserve for a Riverhead literary crossover title. Yeah. And I will predict a more commercial paperback cover for this with some marketing around summer reading at some point. Yeah, that's interesting. I wonder if it'll be a... It doesn't feel like a December book. Well...

No, because it's family vacation. Yeah, that's an interesting point. I think getting together with your family around the holidays, maybe that's what they were thinking. Maybe. That's kind of the same idea. I don't know. It's a short lit fic title with no spec fic hook. It feels like the kind of thing you maybe read before of families doing stuff to each other, but it's different and cool and Wang has her own voice. Yeah, it's wonderful. That's what we're talking about.

And then this book, I don't know, have you heard of this book called Let Them, Rebecca? Oh, yes. The Mel Robbins self-help situation. So I'm putting this on here. It's selling like hotcakes. And I had an experience. I was in L.A. over break and I was at a local bookstore poking around and I did something I don't normally do. Let me tell you my little anecdote here, mostly because I think you'll like it.

This is anecdata par excellence. So I was looking at the recommended books and a woman came up to the counter and asked, and I only heard the part of the cashier, the worker, whoever saying, you know what? We're getting that a lot, but we're all sold out. And I don't even know when we're going to get any more from the warehouse. He's like, this is one of the few times I might tell you to check the big guy. And she was like, okay, thanks. I wondered. I was like,

Huh. What could it be? What book is that? And I did like 10 seconds of game and I had no idea. I really had no idea. This would have been surprising to me if you're going to say that it was the Mel Robbins. Yeah. And so this is something I never do is talk to strangers like proactively like this. That is the most surprising part of this story, honestly. Well, and she was browsing. You went and got nosy. I don't mean to be voice. If I heard you talk, could you let me know what book that was? I'm just curious.

And she's like, it's a book called Let Them by, what's her name? Mel Robbins. I can't even remember the name. It just flies out of my brain. It was like, Let Them. I was like, oh, I haven't heard that. And she's like, yeah, it's about, and here's a summary. Let me, I think, let me, I wrote this down. Hold on. I made a note for myself. Right. Yeah. Cause I can summarize the, what I've picked up about it for you too. She said it's about letting people off if they're going to say things about it. Basically. Is that right? Yeah.

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