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Talking Audiobooks with Spotify & FLASHLIGHT by Susan Choi
2 juni 2025 · 54 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk to Spotify's Associate Director for Audiobooks Editorial Katie del Rosario about curating audiobooks for Spotify, getting people to try audiobooks, spotlighting special titles, and more. Then, Jeff and Sharifah talk about Flashlight by Susan Choi, one of the most anticipated releases of the summer. Lees meer
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Spotify Audiobooks
Flashlight by Susan Choi
The Book Riot Podcast Live at Powell's on July 9th.
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The It Books of June 2025
28 mei 2025 · 54 min
Jeff and Rebecca consider a loaded roster of June books to pick the It Book of the month. Lees meer
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Deals Deals Deals for May 2025 [Teaser]
23 mei 2025 · 7 min
Time again to look at interesting, lucrative, exciting, strange, or otherwise notable book deal announcements. Always a good time. Lees meer
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Power Ranking the Books of 2005
21 mei 2025 · 1 uur 1 min
Jeff and Rebecca look back a couple of decades to power-rank the books of 2005. Lees meer
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The Latest BookTok Conspiracy, What the Library of Congress Actually Does, and More Book News
19 mei 2025 · 50 min
Book Riot's managing editor Vanessa Diaz joins Rebecca for a conversation about the latest romantasy BookTok conspiracy, what's going on with the Trump administration firing the Librarian of Congress, the NYT's best books of the year so far, recent reading, and more. Lees meer
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Discussed in this Episode:
Trump administration abruptly fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
What is the Library of Congress, and What Does the Librarian of Congress Do?
Firing comes on the heals of major report about AI and copyright
Trump names his former defense attorney as acting Librarian of Congress
Massive victory in lawsuit against Trump’s dismantling of IMLS
The NYT’s best books of the year so far
Romantasy BookTok’s latest conspiracy
Edinburgh-based tour company to replace Harry Potter tours w/ LGBTQ+ history walks for Pride Month
The Dry Season by Melissa Febos
So Many Stars by Caro de Robertis
Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin
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The 2025 Book Riot Fantasy League Book Draft
14 mei 2025 · 1 uur 25 min
Jeff and Rebecca are joined by Sharifah Williams and Prof. Laura McGrath to conduct the first ever Book Riot fantasy book draft. We explain the rules, talk about strategy, and then engage in some fairly chaotic literary team building. Lees meer
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The JeffCore Books of May 2025 [Teaser]
13 mei 2025 · 7 min
This is a bonus preview of the our most recent Patreon-only episode, The JeffCore Books of May 2025. Lees meer
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The Pulitzer Drama Was Real and Other Book News PLUS: A Mini-Book Club for RUN FOR THE HILLS by Kevin Wilson
12 mei 2025 · 1 uur 26 min
Jeff and Rebecca continue to lap up with extreme interest scuttlebutt about James's Pulitzer win before talking about Lithgow's underwhelming reaction to Rowling's transphobia, a new publisher focused on dudes (initially. they swear) and more book news. Then Sharifah Williams hops on to talk about Kevin Wilson's new novel, Run for the Hills. Lees meer
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Alexandra Alter confirms JAMES Pulitzer speculation (LitHub piece with the speculation)
John Lithgow surprised by backlash to J.K. Rowling
New imprint will focus on literary fiction by men
Agatha Christie’s estate authorizes writing course taught by AI deepfake
You can now buy books in the Kindle iOS app
Run for The Hills by Kevin Wilson
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The Summer 2025 Draft [Teaser]
8 mei 2025 · 6 min
Jeff and Rebecca each select 10 books to win your vote in our Summer Preview draft. Lees meer
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JAMES Wins the Pulitzer & Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendations Part 2
7 mei 2025 · 1 uur 23 min
First, Jeff and Rebecca digest Percival Everett's Pulitzer win (including a little palace intrigue of the literary variety). Then, they conclude this go-round of reader recommendation requests. Lees meer
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The The Pulitzer Board Overrule The Jury?
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2025 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Show, Part 1
5 mei 2025 · 55 min
Jeff and Rebecca respond to a range of listener recommendation requests, including, but not exclusively, for moms, dads, and grads. Lees meer
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The It Books of May 2025
30 april 2025 · 45 min
Jeff and Rebecca try to determine what the It Book of May 2025 will be. Lees meer
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Ranking the Stories of EXIT ZERO by Marie-Helene Bertino by How Marie-Helene Bertino They Are [Teaser]
29 april 2025 · 6 min
This is a preview of the Patreon-only episode in which Jeff and Rebecca talk about Bertino's new short story collection by ranking the stories in Exit Zero by Marie-Helene Bertino. This is for the real ones out there. Lees meer
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Celebrity Book Clubs GO IRL, Literary Grudges, and more book news
28 april 2025 · 51 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about still being pissed off about the 2012 non-pulitzer, Gaiman seemingly throwing in the image rehab towel, legal challenges and defenses, and more before talking about their recent reading. Lees meer
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Discussed in this Episode:
The Books of Marie-Helene Bertino...with Marie-Helene Bertino on First Edition
Jane Friedman on The Business of Being a Writer on First Edition
The Long History of The Simplified Spelling Movement with Gabe Henry on First Edition.
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Exit Zero by Marie-Helene Bertino
Enough is Enuf by Gabe Henry
Pronoun Trouble by John McWhorter
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The 10 Best Winners of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction of the Century So Far
23 april 2025 · 51 min
Jeff and Rebecca continue to get mileage out of the "Of the Century so Far" framing, this time by ranking the fiction winners of the Pulitzer prize. Tough. Lees meer
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NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro, the book and the movie [Teaser]
22 april 2025 · 9 min
It's the 20th anniversary of the publication of Kazuo Ishiguro's modern classic, Never Let Me Go. Jeff and Rebecca recorded this episode diving into the book and movie in 2022. Lees meer
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Study Shows Book Bans Lead to Increased Readership, the "Shadow Daddies" of Romantasy, and More
21 april 2025 · 54 min
Rebecca sits down with Vanessa Diaz to discuss a new study that shows book bans lead to increased readership of inclusive content, the men cashing in big on romantasy, PEN Awards finalists, and more. Lees meer
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Discussed in this Episode:
PEN Awards Finalists
ALA State of America’s Libraries report
New study finds that book bans lead to increased readership
ACLU files suit against Department of Defense schools over book banning
The men cashing in on romantasy
Meta says books used to train LLMs are both essential and essentially worthless
Searches by Vauhini Vara
Murder at Gull's Nest by Jess Kidd
Murder by Cheesecake by Rachel Ekstrom Courage
Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
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Talking Bibliotherapy with Emely Rumble
16 april 2025 · 43 min
Rebecca talks with Emely Rumble, author of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx, about using books as a tool for individual and collective healing, social justice, and more. Lees meer
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Bibliotherapy in the Bronx
Literapy NYC
National Association for Poetry Therapy
International Federation of Biblio/Poetry Therapy
The Center/Institute for Creative "Righting"
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Americans Want To Read More Books. Or Do They?
14 april 2025 · 56 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about a big new survey of Americans' feelings about reading, before talking about a small but interesting change at PW, recent reading, and more. Lees meer
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New NPR/Ipsos poll shows most Americans want to read more…and just don’t
PW now charging for review consideration
Laura McGrath on how publishing industry demographics compare to US population
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AUDITION by Katie Kitamura & and the Documentary BANNED TOGETHER
9 april 2025 · 1 uur 9 min
Jeff and Rebecca discuss Katie Kitamura's new novel, Audition. Then, Rebecca talks to Allyson Rice and Tom Wiggins, producers of the new documentary, Banned Together. Lees meer
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National Book Critics Circle Winners, Censorship Cases on a Collision Course with the Supreme Court, and more of the week's book news
7 april 2025 · 1 uur 2 min
Jeff is back from vacation and joins Rebecca to talk NBCC winners, escalating legal challenges to book bans, Penguin Random House sales info, recent reading, and more. Lees meer
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NBCC Award winners
Iowa’s book ban bill blocked again by federal judge
The biggest book censorship stories of the year so far
Bishop who urged Trump to “have mercy” will publish 2 books for kids
PRH sales up 8.5% in 2024
James Patterson is teaming up with…Mr. Beast
RIP NaNoWriMo
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The It Books of April
2 april 2025 · 43 min
Jeff and Rebecca consider contenders for the It Book of April, 2025. Lees meer
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The Reading Life of Stephen Graham Jones
31 maart 2025 · 55 min
Jeff is out this week reading on a beach, so we are sharing this rerun from the First Edition podcast in which Jeff talks to Stephen Graham Jones about his reading life. Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of thirty-five or so novels and collections, and there are some novellas and comic books in there as well. Most recent are Earthdivers and I Was a Teenage Slasher. Lees meer
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5 Fascinating Stats About Modern Reading Habits, with Laura McGrath
26 maart 2025 · 1 uur 9 min
Author, literary historian, and data scientist Laura McGrath joins Jeff and Rebecca to share some of the most interesting, surprising, and curious stats about modern reading habits. Lees meer
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Discussed in this Episode:
Laura's Substack textCrunch
Philippa Chong, Inside the Critics Circle
Christine Larson, Love in the Time of Self-Publishing
Janice Radway, A Feeling for Books
Janice Radway, Reading the Romance
Chong and Kim, "Writing By Women or For Women? Either Way, You're Less Likely to be Reviewed."
Inman Berens and Noorda, Immersive Media 2020
Inman Berens and Noorda, "Gen Z and Millennials: How they Use Public Libraries and Identify through Media Use."
Porter, Eimannsberger, English, et. al. "Genre Juggernaut: Measuring 'Romance'"
Lucy, Li, et al. "Racial and Ethnic Representation in Literature Taught in US High Schools"
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Which Classics Should You Read to Be "Well-Read"? [Teaser]
25 maart 2025 · 9 min
In this bonus preview of the most recent Patreon-only episode of The Book Riot Podcast, Jeff and Rebecca tackle an impossible question. Lees meer
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The Long Odds of the Slushpile, Adaptation News, and Picking Vacation Reading
24 maart 2025 · 56 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the stunning reality of getting published from the slushpile, noodle about being well-read, and try to figure out what Jeff is going to read on vacation. He is genuinely stumped. Lees meer
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Discussed in this Episode:
Laura McGrath on the math of the slush pile
Trump’s new executive order targets libraries & museums…and what you can do about it
Keira Knightley Pride & Prejudice to be re-released 4/20 for 20th anniversary
Call your reps and get out there to protect the Dept of Education
Frontlist Foyer, sponsored by Thriftbooks
Hunchback
Beautyland
Everything I Never Told You
White Light
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
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Things We Love and Things We Hate About Talking About Books Online with Traci Thomas
19 maart 2025 · 1 uur 21 min
Traci Thomas of The Stacks podcast joins Jeff and Rebecca to talk about things we love (and hate) about talking about books online. Mostly it is really great! Mostly!
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Aardvark Box Giveaway!
The Stacks Podcast
The Stacks on Instagram
Unstacked by Traci Thomas
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The Book Riot Podcast Live at Powell's! [Teaser]
18 maart 2025 · 7 min
This is a preview of our live recording of the Most Recommendable Books of the Century (so far) at Powell's in beautiful downtown Portland, Oregon. If you aren't already a Patreon member, you can listen to the full recording when you sign up. Thanks to Powell's, our family and friends, and everyone who came out (or told someone else to). Hope to do it again sometime in the not-too-distant future.
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The GILEAD Adaptation is Real, Meta Streisands Itself, Powells Event Debrief and More of the Week's Book News.
17 maart 2025 · 51 min
Jeff and Rebecca debrief a little about their live recording at Powell's last week before talking about Meta Streisanding itself, the exciting/scary news of Scorsese's for actual life Gilead adaptation, and more of the week's book news.
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Discussed in this episode:
Scorcese! Adapts! Gilead! Series!
Austin Butler & Saoirse Ronan to star in Deep Cuts adaptation
Moms for Liberty is shutting down BookLooks
Former Meta executive ordered to halt promotion of tell-all book
Spotify launches program to publish audiobooks for independent authors
WNDB announces first We Need Diverse Books Day April 3
Careless People
White Light by Jack Lohmann
We Tell Ourselves Stories by Alissa Wilkinson
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Book Club: THE ANTIDOTE
14 maart 2025 · 48 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about The Antidote by Karen Russell.
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New York Report, New Harper Lee Collection Announced, Golden Ticket Strategies, and more
10 maart 2025 · 1 uur 10 min
Jeff fills Rebecca on his recent trip to New York for publishing meetings before they talk about the newly announced Harper Lee collection and other items of note.
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Come See us live at Powell’s on March 13th
Hear us on Books with Betsy
New collection of Harper Lee’s previously unpublished short stories coming this fall
This day-in-the-life of an audiobook narrator is great (and they get paid by the finished hour - does this apply to Meryl Streep?)
Kathryn Stockett’s first novel since The Help is coming this fall
Deep Cuts
The Dream Hotel
Sucker Punch
The River Has Roots
Ingrained
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The It Books of March 2025
5 maart 2025 · 42 min
Jeff and Rebecca get ready for Spring with March's It Book Knockout Round.
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Give Me Liberty AND Give Me Jeff
3 maart 2025 · 58 min
With Rebecca out, Liberty Hardy joins Jeff on the occasion of the 500th episode of All the Books! They talk about being book podcasters and a host of other reading-related topics.
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Who Will The Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay?
26 februari 2025 · 52 min
Jeff and Rebecca run though the nominees for the 2025 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and assign each of them a win probability. Please do not bet on these.
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Will Romantasy Get a Shot at a Big-Time Adaptation?
24 februari 2025 · 43 min
Jeff and Rebecca digest a bunch of high-profile adaptation news which leads them to wonder about the prospects of a big-budget romantasy series ever coming to screens, some news around book bannings and censorship, talk about recent reading, and more.
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Hulu cans the ACOTAR adaptation
STARZ to adapt All Fours
Matt! Damon! Is! Odysseus!
Nimona creator N.D. Stevenson announces new book
LA Times Book Prize finalists
Indiana cuts Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library from budget
Iowa rushes to advance a bill that would criminalize librarianship
Talk to Me by Rich Benjamin
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Soft Core by Brittany Newell
Calling In
Back After This by Linda Holmes
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Which Writers Could Most Benefit from a Signal Adaptation?
19 februari 2025 · 55 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about authors they think would most benefit from (or they would just personally like to see have) a signal adaptation.
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Deep Dive into LIFE IN THREE DIMENSIONS by Shigehiro Oishi [Teaser]
18 februari 2025 · 6 min
This is a preview of our Patreon-only discussion of Shigehiro Oishi's Life in Three Dimensions.
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The Big 5 Are Indeed Big, First Major AI Verdict Comes In, Remembering Tom Robbins, and more.
17 februari 2025 · 1 uur 4 min
First up, Jeff offers his remembrances of reading Tom Robbins. Then, Jeff and Rebecca talk about the hardcover dominance of the Big 5, the first landmark AI fair use case, recent reading, and more.
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R.I.P. Tom Robbins
Thomson Reuters wins first big AI copyright case in the US
Big Five retained hold on hardcover bestsellers in 2024 (let’s talk about some highlights from the print edition too)
Laura McGrath dives into publishing’s diversity data
Barbara Kinsolver funds rehab center with profits from Demon Copperhead
Margaret Atwood to publish memoir “of sorts” this fall
Turns out graphic novels are good for kids’ reading habits
John Lithgow to play Dumbledore in HBO Harry Potter series
Sendak/King team-up
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
On Tyranny
Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya
How to Share an Egg by Bonny Reichart
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
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Everything Romance with Jessica Pryde
12 februari 2025 · 42 min
Jeff and Rebecca are joined by romance expert Jessica Pryde to talk about romantasy, current trends in romance, category romance, navigating commercial romance covers, and much more.
Jessica co-hosts Book Riot's When in Romance. You can also find her exclamations about books and internet ridiculousness on BlueSky (JessIsReading) and instagram/threads (jess_is_reading).
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Jennifer Roberson
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming
Lights Out by Navessa Allen
The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton
I Think I Like "Cozy" Dark Romance
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Deals Deals Deals for February 2025 [Teaser]
11 februari 2025 · 11 min
Jeff is back with his quarterly pile of recent book deal announcements to bounce off Rebecca. One of our favorite recurring episodes.
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Gaiman Sued, Blurbs Deprecated, and A Book Sales Check-In
10 februari 2025 · 1 uur 18 min
Jeff and Rebecca spend more time than they would like in legal-land before talking about how everybody hates blurbs, recent reading, and other book news. Then, Brenna Connor of Circana joins Jeff to talk about 2024 book sales highlights and lowlights before looking ahead to 2025.
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First Edition
Shout-out to Feedspot for featuring us as #5 in the top 100 book podcasts on the planet
Scarlett Pavlovich sues Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer for rape & human trafficking and Netflix adaptation of Sandman to end after second season
Man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie to go to trial
Big 5 and Authors Guild sue Idaho over book banning law
Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint won’t require blurbs and Rebecca Makkai essay in the NYT
Dystopian novels are on the rise again after the inauguration
On the Hippie Trail
The Loves of My Life
Life in Three Dimensions
Tilt
Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya
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The It Books of February 2025
5 februari 2025 · 47 min
Jeff and Rebecca consider ten contenders to be the It Book of the Month.
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We Talk About WE DO NOT PART by Han Kang [Teaser]
4 februari 2025 · 11 min
Jeff and Rebecca discuss the new novel by the 2024 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Han Kang.
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Dark Horse Drops Gaiman, Ebooks Come to Bookshop, ONYX STORM is the Fastest-Selling Books in 20 years, and more.
3 februari 2025 · 1 uur 3 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about Dark Horse parting ways with Neil Gaiman, get off some hot takes about bookish social media, go through the ins-and-outs of ebooks coming to Bookshop.org, and more.
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Bookshop.org’s Ebook Launch & Reading 25 Minutes a Day in 2025 with Gretchen Rubin episode of First Edition
Dark Horse Comics drops Neil Gaiman
Bookshop.org launches ebook sales
NYT’s coverage accidentally indicts how bad the old indie ebook options are
Authors Guild introduces “Human Authored” certification
New! Dan! Brown!
Hero of the week: Octavia’s Bookshelf
Defy by Sunita Sah
Y2K by Colette Shade
We Do Not Part by Han Kang
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Writers to Watch, 2025 Edition
29 januari 2025 · 38 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about a bunch of early-ish career writers to keep your eye on.
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ONYX STORM Rolls In, It's a Very Bookish Oscars, and Making Your Own Book Fair
27 januari 2025 · 54 min
Jeff and Rebecca note some side-effects of Onyx Storm's huge release before talking about Oscars nominations, NBCC finalists, recent reading and more. Then, Jami Attenberg talks to Rebecca about how she put together a book fair where every kid can walk away with a book.
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The Onyx Storm roll-out didn’t quite go as planned - and demand crashed the Target website and Fans are not impressed with the “exclusive” art
NBCC finalists
Oscar nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay
Blob
I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante
The Language of Mathematics by Raul Rojas
Alligator Tears by Edgar Gomez
Life in Three Dimensions by Shigehiro Oishi
Jami's Craft Talk Substack
How We Hacked the Scholastic Book Fair So Every Kid Could Buy a Book
1,000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round
A Reason to See You Again
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Power Ranking the Books of 2015
22 januari 2025 · 1 uur 20 min
Jeff and Rebecca look back and power-rank the books of 2015. Ten picks each, minimal cheating.
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Hot List Check in for January 2025 [Teaser]
21 januari 2025 · 6 min
This is a preview of our most recent bonus episode for Patreon members: The January 2025 Hot List Check-in. This is where Jeff offers Rebecca a list of the books he thinks are the current hot books and she tells him he is wrong. Or right. Since Patreon episodes aren't in the main feed, there is some occasional cursing, and in this preview, Jeff had to get out the horn-bleep effect. If you enjoyed this, please consider becoming a paid member of the Book Riot podcast Patreon. We have fun trying to make things you enjoy.
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The Neil Gaiman Story Gets Worse, Best-Selling Books of 2024, and The Price of Books with Kathleen Schmidt
20 januari 2025 · 1 uur 13 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the very, very ugly details emerging about Neil Gaiman, 2024's best-selling books, audio-first publishing, and more. Then, Kelly Jensen and Kathleen Schmidt talk about the price of books and what effects they have.
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Details emerge in sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman
Simon & Schuster launches audio-first imprint helmed by Jason Pinter
Print book sales saw small increase in 2024
Steven Soderbergh read more books than I did last year
Publishing Confidential
What Will Potential Tariffs Mean for Comics?
The Little Book of Goat Yoga
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Rebecca Yarros
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Aflame by Pico Iyer
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante
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Spring 2025 Adaptation Preview
15 januari 2025 · 57 min
Randy Winston of The Black List joins Rebecca and Jeff to preview the spring's most interesting literary adaptations.
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