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The Book of the Year
The Book of the Year | No Such Thing As A Fish
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The Book of the Year will be precisely what its title promises: an entertaining, fact-filled journey into the more bizarre reaches of the past twelve months. Among many, many other things, it will establish: Who has played the greater number of golf rounds since the turn of 2017: Rory McIlroy or Donald Trump. Precisely how many members of Britains Parachute Regiment arent actually qualified to use parachutes. Why a parliamentary inquiry into why parliamentary inquiries take so long has been delayed. Venturing fearlessly from Australia (where toad-flavoured sausages are being deployed to stop predators from eating real toads) to India (where you can now buy a washing machine with a special curry stain button), this will be the year, not as the headlines defined it, but as it ought to be remembered. The Book of the Year will prove the perfect Christmas gift, the ideal conversation starter (and stopper), and the ultimate source of wisdom for all lovers of trivia.
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LitsyEvents
The Book of the Year | No Such Thing As A Fish
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Repost for @Catsandbooks

I made a #BookBracket for 2024!
I added in wild card options, for people to use however they like. Your bracket, your rules!

Please feel free to share!
I also have a link where you can download your own copy, if you prefer to get it that way 🩵 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ogcYdNAw3yOaDwgzjqXmjndFLJ8l93JS/view?usp=drive...

BethM Now how the heck do I not make it look all jacked up lol? I gave up last year bc it got so bad😂😂😂 3mo
Catsandbooks @BethM 😂 Do you mean putting the images of the books on the bracket? 3mo
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Allylu
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Here‘s my 2022 Reading Bracket resulting in Lessons in Chemistry being my favorite book. It was very hard choosing because I read so many good books this year! #WinterReadathon #BookSpin

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 1y
CBee Lessons is one of 2022 favorites too! Just loved it 😊 1y
Cinfhen I love this bracket idea 💡 So many people loved this novel🥳🥳🥳 1y
Eggs Some great books in your brackets👏🏻👏🏻 1y
DieAReader ♥️♥️♥️ 1y
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candc320
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Loved tracking my Book of the Year this year! The winner is…Outlander!

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kalinichta
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No Such Thing As A Fish fans and other strange fact nerds: someone brilliant has put together a Goodreads list of all the books referenced in the Fish podcast! I am dying, as is my TBR.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/131792.No_Such_Thing_as_a_Fish

Magpiegem Ooooooooooooh!!!!! 3y
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Andrew65
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We are now over 3/4 of the way through the year and no doubt all running out of books to read! 😂 Time to add to that #TBRMountain

Share with other Littens what your favourite book of the year is. If you can‘t limit it to 1 share more than 1.

Andrew65 My top 3 so far are A Man Called Ove, The Name Of the Wind, (edited) 6y
LazyDays Best read for 2018! 6y
Andrew65 @LazyDays Heard great things and just added it to my TBR! 6y
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LazyDays It is sad, but worth it! 6y
LazyDays Ove is one of my favorites💗 6y
Andrew65 @LazyDays It was my first Fredrik Backman but not my last. Simply stunning! 6y
Andrew65 @LazyDays Sometime sad books can be the best. Nothing beats a good cry whilst you are reading. This book made me cry plenty. 6y
Ye_Mighty_Andy_Spare Ballad of the Whiskey Robber. True story of a Budapest hockey player who made ends meet robbing banks. Bunging cops, bungling criminals, bungled heists and a cop who honed his detective skills by watching episodes of Columbo 6y
tina_b.ooks I think there are still some really good ones to come... but so far my number one would be 6y
Andrew65 @Ye_Mighty_Andy_Spare Sounds great fun. 👍 6y
Andrew65 @tina_b.ooks Hopefully! 👍 This also looks very interesting. 6y
Andrew65 @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego I have The Fifth Season and need to read it! 6y
Andrew65 @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego Song of Achilles is also on my list! 6y
Andrew65 @Itchyfeetreader Sounds well worth a read. 6y
Andrew65 @xicanti Don‘t know this one but sounds like I need to. 6y
Victoriahoperose And I loved The Music Shop and The Last Time I Lied 6y
Andrew65 @Victoriahoperose I really enjoyed The Music Shop too. The Book Of Essie is on my hit list. 6y
VioletBramble I liked The City of Brass and 6y
Andrew65 @VioletBramble Good choices. 👍 6y
Elma The Alice Network, Educated, The Girl With All the Gifts 6y
Andrew65 @Elma How did I forget The Alice Network, that is also one of my favourite books of the year. 6y
Andrew65 @amb I want to get to this before the end of the year. 6y
amb @Andrew65 I loved it so much, it was clever, unique and unputdownable 6y
Andrew65 @amb That‘s the kind of things I‘ve heard from others and why I am looking forward to it. 6y
anored Good Omens, Ready Player One 6y
Andrew65 @anored Read and enjoyed Good Omens, and do want to get to Ready Player One. 6y
riversong153 If I had to pick one, I‘d say Circe 6y
tonyahoswalt Three books have stood out for me, all fantasy. Children of Blood and Bone, Daughters of the Storm, and Onyx and Ivory. However, I am far from running out of books! 😋 6y
Andrew65 @riversong153 Circe has certainly got great press this year, will be reading it with #BOTMBuddyRead 6y
Andrew65 @JenIsAlwaysReading Another very popular book. 6y
Andrew65 @tonyahoswalt These are very popular with Littens. 6y
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ssravp
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One of my favorite British panel shows, QI, spawned one of my favorite podcasts, No Such Thing As A Fish, this audiobook was basically a 9 hour long podcast, in spite of what the subtitle says, and I loved every minute of it. 🚫🐠

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Booksnchill
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Word of the day: KALSARIKANNIT (Finnish) - drinking home alone in your underwear 🍷my new word!!!

hermyknee 😂😂😂 6y
Booksnchill @hermyknee with a book of course!! 6y
Bookish.SAM Now THIS is the kind of vocabulary I need in my life 👏 6y
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Booksnchill @Bookish.SAM those Finns!!!💖👍 6y
mrozzz Amazing!! 😅🤘🏻 6y
LeahBergen Those brilliant Finns! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6y
EvieBee Ha! That‘s what been going on a whole lot in my current read. 6y
Booksnchill @EvieBee Ha I read that, you are right! That kind doesn‘t seem so much fun though..🤣 6y
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Booksnchill
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Did you know about the man who tied balloons to a camping chair in 2017 and flew over South Africa? If this and other quite interesting facts are of interest I recommend the Book of the Year from the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast folks. I listened to it as the Audiobook of the Year but either way it is nonfiction indulgent fun!

Tamra There was a guy in the US who did something similar and promptly got arrested. ☹️ Should have been rewarded for ingenuity! 6y
Booksnchill @Tamra i saw that- I think this guy was fined as well. I think they both deserved a Darwin Award but they survived so maybe next time! 6y
Tamra @Booksnchill 😂 Definitely have a crazy sense of adventure! (edited) 6y
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Booksnchill
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For those who love the british quiz show QI the “elves” or research team, have a podcast- No Such Thing As A Fish which I highly recommend. They have written the tagged book but had thought the audiobook would not be available in US (really a 9 hour version of the podcast exploring quite interesting facts) It just became available and I am here for that!🤪👏👏👏🎉

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kalinichta
The Book of the Year | No Such Thing As A Fish

I've been relying heavily on the No Such Thing As A Fish and Judge John Hodgman podcasts to entertain me on my work commute, but since those only last me so long, I'm looking to pad things out with some book-centric fare. I've been really enjoying Reading Envy. What are your favorites, Littens?

ReadingEnvy Wow, thanks for listening! The book podcasts I always listen to immediately​ are The Readers and The Librarian is In, although there are a bunch of others I dabble in. Non bookwise I can recommend The Mortified Podcast for hours of cringeworthy readings from childhood diaries. 7y
kalinichta @ReadingEnvy Awesome, thank you so much for the recs. 7y
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