Danika Ellis joins Jeff to talk about a spate of book-related AI disasters, Amazon's list of the best books of the year, Michelle Obama's recently-announced book, and much more.

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Discussed in this Episode:

The Book Riot Live at Powell’s July 9th: The Best Books of the Year (so far)

Book Riot’s In the Club, In Reading Color, and Our Queerest Shelves Newsletters

Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge

Salman Rushdie’s attacker sentenced to 25 years 

Chicago Sun-Times runs AI-generated summer reading list w/ fake books

And business insider thing too

AI clone books showing up on amazon: 

Amazon’s Best Books of the Year & Goodreads most popular books of the year so far

Michelle Obama’s new book

The Two Kinds of Book Auctions

James Cameron to adapt THE DEVILS

13 Signs You Used ChatGPT to Write

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