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It's Time for Publishers to Tell the Truth About Posthumously Published Books
18 maart 2024 · 57 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about publishers misrepresenting posthumous books, Jeff's Q&A with Authors Equity CEO Madeline McIntosh, RuPaul's Allstora backtracking, and much more.
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Follow-up: Madeline McIntosh Q & A about Authors Equity
RuPaul and Allstora backtrack on selling anti-LGBTQ titles
Legislators in Delaware and Connecticut propose anti-book ban measures
It's Time for Publishers to Tell the Truth About Posthumously Published Books
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AMERICAN FICTION and Seeing The Book World On Screen and On the Page
13 maart 2024 · 1 uur
On the occasion of Cord Jefferson's Best Adapted Screenplay win, Jeff and Rebecca talk about their favorite books, movies, and TV shows set in the world of books before talking about Erasure by Percival Everett and American Fiction.
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Elf
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Luster by Raven Leilani
Hothouse by Boris Kachka
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Erasure by Percival Everett
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A New Store and a New Publisher Both Trying to Reslice The Bookselling Pie
11 maart 2024 · 1 uur 8 min
Book Riot editor Danika Ellis joins Jeff to talk about Allstore (a new online bookstore) and Authors Equity (a new publisher) coming at the same target from two different angles. Plus: a report on diversity in publishing and Spotify's curious new Audiobooks Tier.
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Our Queerest Shelves
The Read Harder Challenge
Is This What Author-Centered Publishing Looks Like?
RuPaul Launches an “Online Book Marketplace”
RuPaul bookstore controversy
Results of Lee & Low’s publishing diversity baseline survey and Erica’s response in The Deep Dive
Spotify introduces audiobooks tier at $9.99
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Who Will Win Best Adapted Screenplay?
6 maart 2024 · 57 min
Jeff and Rebecca try to predict the most literary Oscar.
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Ranking the Last 20 Winners of the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay
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Bookshop.org Is Audiobooks Curious, Ward Re-Ups, the State of Culture in 2024 & More
4 maart 2024 · 1 uur 3 min
Jeff and Rebecca note a customer survey Bookshop.org sent to customers about their audiobook habits, decide no-new news is good news as Jesmyn Ward stays on at S&S, really resonate with Ted Gioia's "State of Culture, 2024," and more.
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Bookshop.org appears to be interested in audiobooks
Jesmyn Ward signs 3-book deal with Scribner
TikTok-famous librarian quits because of harassment
And I think we have to talk about Ted Gioia and the state of the culture
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Book Club: The Book of Love by Kelly Link [bonus]
1 maart 2024 · 4 min
Jeff and Rebecca discuss Kelly Link's debut novel, The Book of Love.
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The "It" Books of March
28 februari 2024 · 45 min
Jeff and Rebecca pick the "it" book of March.
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The Hunter by Tana French
Maktub by Paulo Coehlo
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
The Morningside by Téa Obreht
Memory Piece by Lisa Ko
There's Always Next Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
Until August by Gabriel García Márquez
The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black
James by Percival Everett
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Deals, Deals Deals: February 2024 [teaser]
27 februari 2024 · 9 min
Jeff and Rebecca review some of the most interesting book deal announcements from the last few months. Lees meer
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Simon & Schuster's Odyssey Isn't Over, National Book Awards Open Up, and More
26 februari 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about LeVar Burton's book deal, opening up the National Book Awards, book banning news, and why no one should think this is the forever home for Simon & Schuster.
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2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up.
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National Book Awards open to authors who are not US citizens
LeVar Burton Signs 2-book deal
West Virginia House passes bill that allows prosecution of librarians
Maryland legislators introduce the Freedom to Read Act
ALA releases “book résumés” to help fight book bans
Marilynne Robinson remains lovely
KKR is in no hurry to sell S&S. But they will
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Talking DUNE
21 februari 2024 · 1 uur 36 min
We are re-running an episode from our short-run podcast series Adaptation Nation on Dune, covering Frank Herbert's novel and what turned out to be part one of Denis Villaneueve's adaptation. Amanda Nelson and Jenn Northington joined Jeff for this deep dive.
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Frank Herbert’s Distrust of JFK
Hari Kunzru on Dune
Muslim Influences in Dune
Is Dune a White Savior Narrative?
Sidelining Arab Voices in Dune
Dune Book Club with Ausma Zehanat Khan
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Listener Mailbag & Personalized Recommendations [Teaser]
20 februari 2024 · 4 min
Jeff and Rebecca dive into general questions from listeners and offer personalized recommendations, including whether any F. Scott Fitzgerald books are worth reading and what's the deal with Huck Finn? Lees meer
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Coincidences, Adaptations, and Recent Reading
19 februari 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
Jeff and Rebecca discuss some good listener feedback on coincidences before running through a bunch of adaptation news and then talking about recent media consumption.
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The Elly Conway “mystery” was indeed the most interesting thing about Argylle..and even that is pretty boring
Ongoing: Publishers confirm that Spotify audiobook sales have been solid in terms of revenue & reaching new users
Amy Adams & Jenna Ortega in talks for Klara & the Sun adaptation
Who wants to watch the Hallmark Channel’s Jane Austen adaptations with me?
Lifetime gets its groove back with Terry McMillan
And I guess we’re going to do A Gentleman in Moscow
But we will not be getting the big ACOTAR series, or maybe we will
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The Best Adaptations of Romances & Love Stories
14 februari 2024 · 1 uur 3 min
Vanessa Diaz joins Rebecca for a conversation about the best movies adapted from romances and love stories, the ones that are due for a remake, and a few creative takes on what a love story even is.
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Vanessa's ode to Practical Magic
Rebecca revisits The Bridges of Madison County
The Adaptation Nation podcast feed
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Be Back Soon
12 februari 2024 · 2 min
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Checking in on the World of Romance
7 februari 2024 · 1 uur
Trisha Brown and Jess Pryde, hosts of When in Romance, join Jeff to talk about what's going on in the world of romance: what's changed over the last ten years (and what hasn't), what the state of romance is today, where it's going, and a recommendation or two as well. This was fun.
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Black Love Matters, edited by Jessica P. Pryde
The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Indigo by Beverly Jenkins
Role Playing by Cathy Yardley
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
The Viscount Made Me Do It by Diana Quincy
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lop
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A Clandestine Texas Bookshelf, Argylle Fizzles, Spotify's Audiobook Royalties, and a Farewell to N. Scott Momaday
5 februari 2024 · 1 uur
Jeff and Rebecca take a moment to mark the death of N. Scott Momaday, do a post-mortem on the Argylle 'intrigue," pitch a movie based on a secret banned bookshelf in Houston, and more.
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First Edition!
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N. Scott Momaday Has Died
Of course Constance Grady did the legwork on Argylle
The Argylle movie reviews are rolling in, and they’re…not great
How not to pitch your book to BookTokers
Hero of the Week: Texas teacher’s clandestine library of banned books
Some late-breaking info about Spotify’s audiobook performance; Audible is concerned
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
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February "It Book" Knockout Round
1 februari 2024 · 58 min
After a ho-hum January slate of new releases, Jeff and Rebecca are back to working their way through a much stronger slate of It Book candidates.
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Bride by Ali Hazelwood
The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
The Women by Kristin Hannah
The Great Wave by Michiko Kakutani
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
Splinters by Leslie Jamison
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
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Adapted Screenplay Nominees, Big 5 Really Just as Big, NBCC Award Finalists, and more
29 januari 2024 · 50 min
Jeff and Rebecca helpfully wade into the Adapted Screenplay Discourse, question framing 2023 as anything other than dominance for the Big 5, peruse the National Book Critics Circle Award nominees, and more.
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Kansas introduces anti-book ban bill
Independent publishers chip away at Big Five’s hold on bestseller lists
NBCC awards finalists
Oscar nominees are out and apparently Barbie is an adaptation
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THE INTUITIONIST at 25 [Teaser]
26 januari 2024 · 4 min
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of The Intuitionist, Jeff and Rebecca dive deep on Colson Whitehead's debut novel.
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Winter/Spring 2024 Adaptation Preview
24 januari 2024 · 1 uur 3 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about notable adaptations coming out over the next few months.
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Monsieur Spade
Masters of the Air
The Taste of Things
The Expats
Origin (based on Caste)
Feud: Capote vs The Swans
Argylle
It Ends With Us
Dune 2
Lisa Frankenstein
Spaceman
3 Body Problem
Apples Never Fall
Civil War
LoTR: War of the Rohirrim
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Circuit Court Declares Texas Book Ban Law Unconstitutional, Barnes & Noble Opening New Stores, LA Public Library Buys a Publishing House, and more
22 januari 2024 · 48 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about some good legal news, B&N's announced plans to open 50 new stores, quashing (and starting?) some Argylle authorship rumors, the LAPL getting into the publishing game, and more.
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Big win: Fifth Circuit declares Texas book bans unconstitutional
Anti-book ban bill introduced in New Mexico and Massachusetts, may their efforts succeed
Argylle director shuts down the T Swift conspiracy theory
Barnes & Noble to open 50 new stores this year
LA Public Library acquires indie publisher
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
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What Are the 50 Hottest Books of the Moment? [Teaser]
19 januari 2024 · 2 min
Jeff and Rebecca check in on the Hot 50, their running list of the biggest/buzziest/most acclaimed books in the zeitgeist. Lees meer
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Power Ranking the Books of 2019
17 januari 2024 · 1 uur 10 min
Jeff and Rebecca try to power rank the top books of 2019.
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How to Be an Antiracist
The Nickel Boys
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse
Daisy Jones & The Six
Red, White & Royal Blue
She Said
This is How You Lose the Time War
The Yellow House
How to Do Nothing
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Rebecca's List:
The Nickel Boys
Daisy Jones & The Six
Normal People
Such a Fun Age
She Said (and Women Talking)
Red, White & Royal Blue
Maid
Gideon the Ninth
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
How to Be Antiracist
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The Most Popular Books of the Last 10 years, a Keanu Reeves/China Mieville Team-Up, Banning Dictionaries, and Being Dumb about Oprah, and More
15 januari 2024 · 54 min
Jeff and Rebecca kick themselves for not seeing the obvious reason Oprah might be stumping extra-hard for The Covenant of Water, marvel at Keanu Reeves, lament banning the dictionary, and are unsurprised, mostly, with a list of the most popular books of the last ten years.
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Book Riot contributors’ most anticipated books of 2024
This might be the reason Oprah wanted to sell a lot of copies of Covenant of Water
Open AI says it can’t train LLMs without copyright material
Florida county bans the dictionary
Swifties fuel another literary conspiracy theory
Keanu Reeves collabs on sci-fi novel with China Miéville
Goodreads members’ 76 most popular books of the last decade
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Our Most Anticipated Books of 2024 (The First Bit of It, At Least)
10 januari 2024 · 1 uur 10 min
Jeff and Rebecca run through some of their personally most-anticipated books of the first-ish half of 2024. Plus, they have some other Book Riot editors weigh in with their picks.
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Read Harder 2024 is alive!
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
The Bloodied Nightgown by Joan Acocella
Until August by Gabriel García Márquez
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones
The Z Word by Lindsay King-Miller
State of Paradise by Laura Van Den Burg
A Chance Meeting by Rachel Cohen
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting by Lee Gutkind
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
Splinters by Leslie Jamison
The Last Fire Season by Manjula Martin
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner
Legacy by Uché Blackstock
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal Wilkinson
The Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen
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Obama's Favorite Books of 2023, Iowa Book Banning Law Partially Stopped, Recent Reading, and more.
8 januari 2024 · 57 min
Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinksy talk about Obama's favorite books of 2023, the best-selling books of 2023 in the U.S., some good news in Iowa, our winter reading, and more.
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2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up.
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Read Harder 2024 is alive!
Barack’s best of 2023 list
Key parts of Iowa book ban bill cannot be enforced
Excerpt of The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell, the new “Read With Jenna” pick
Best-Selling UK Books of 2023
Temple Folk
North Woods
Absolution
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The Winter 2024 New Release Draft [Teaser]
5 januari 2024 · 3 min
Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinsky compete to draft the best selection of 10 new and upcoming releases.
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January 2024 "It Book" Knockout Round
3 januari 2024 · 45 min
Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinsky choose the "it book" of January 2024 from a roster of 10 finalists.
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2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up.
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Read Harder 2024 is alive!
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn
The Showman by Simon Shuster
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
Sanctuary of the Shadow by Aurora Ascher
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
Beautyland by Marie-Helen Bertino
The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake
House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas
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The Best of the Rest 2023 [Teaser]
19 december 2023 · 4 min
Jeff and Rebecca share the movies, TV, podcasts, and other non-book highlights of the year. Lees meer
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The Year in Review
18 december 2023 · 56 min
Jeff and Rebecca look at the most important, memorable, strangest, and all and all most superlative stories from the year in books and reading.
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Read 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-celebrated
Love to See It: Pultizers expand eligibility
Audiobook moments of the year: Michelle Williams narrating Britney’s memoir; Leslie Jones’s 17-hour-long freestyle; Spotify introduces free listening for Premium members
Worst publisher response to book bans: Scholastic’s whole diversity collection situation
Best publisher response to book bans: PRH takes legal action against book banning states
Achievements in Reporting: The Atlantic’s coverage of the Books 3 data set used to train LLMs
More of These Conversations: The bestseller lists are broken and Goodreads is bad for books
Biggest Mystery: WTF Oprah was up to with Covenant of Water
Still Waiting to See Its Impact: Simon & Schuster sold to KKR, TikTok plans a publishing imprint
Eyeballs Emoji: The BookTok hockey romance shenanigans, Bigolas Dickolas moves some units, Review Bombing Author
Nobody Asked for This: Twilight series coming to TV; HBO plans 10-year run for Harry Potter reboot
Anticlimactic: Manuscript thief pleads guilty
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Bonus: The Books We Missed This Year [Teaser]
12 december 2023 · 3 min
Jeff and Rebecca run through the books they had their eyes on but didn't quite get to this year. Lees meer
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Wrapping Up Holiday Recommendation Requests & Our Most Giftable Books of the Year
11 december 2023 · 57 min
Jeff and Rebecca handle a few last recommendation requests and then give some ideas for generally giftable books for 2023.
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Taste by Stanley Tucci
Walking with Sam by Andrew McCarthy
Oh My Mother! by Connie Wang
Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
From Scratch by Tembi Locke
How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh
The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
Wild Girls by Tiya Miles
Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing by John Gierach
Hidden Mountains by Michael Wejchert
Ross Gay
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters of Note by Shaun Usher (volumes on Art and Love)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
World of Wonders by Johanna Basford
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars by Kate Greene
Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh
From Hollywood with Love by Scott Meslow
Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker
Airplane Mode by Shahnaz Habib
Sigrid Nunez
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Bonus: Our Favorite Books of 2023 [Teaser]
5 december 2023 · 3 min
Rebecca and Jeff run down their favorite books of 2023 and a few highlights from backlist reading. Lees meer
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Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 2
4 december 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
Jeff and Rebecca wrap up their annual holiday recommendation extravaganza.
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Greek Lessons by Han Kang
Possession by A.S. Byatt
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
How Strange a Season by Megan Mayhew Bergman
The Miniature Wife by Manuel Gonzales
Music for Wartime by Rebecca Makkai
The Vanderbeekers series by Karina Yan Glaser
Meet Yasmin! by Saadia Faruqi
Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty
Forward by Abby Wambach
One Life by Megan Rapinoe
Uphill by Jemele Hill
The Rivals by Johnette Howard
The Orchard by Adele Crockett Robertson
2 A.M. at the Cats Pajamas by Marie-Helen Bertino
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
Chemistry by Weike Wang
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
Post Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson
The Guest by Emma Cline
Instead by Maria Coffey
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
If We’re Being Honest by Cat Shook
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Wake, Siren by Nina MacLaughlin
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Babel by R.F. Kuang
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2023 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1
27 november 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
Jeff and Rebecca respond to listener book recommendation requests.
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From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks
Together by Vivek H. Murthy
The Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen
LitHub’s list of Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels
Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
Joan is Okay by Weike Wang
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Me (Moth) by Amber McBride
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Snacking Bakes by Yossy Arefi
The King Arthur Baking School by King Arthur Baking Company
How to Bake Everything by Mark Bittman
No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol
Women Without Kids by Ruby Warrington
Self, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed edited by Meghan Daum
Regretting Motherhood by Orna Donath
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Erasure by Percival Everett
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
There’s a Book Riot list for that!
The Hike by Drew Magary
The Last Final Girls by Stephen Graham Jones
Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan
Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Good Life by Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester
The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Celeste Ng
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The Prepositional Phrase After Trickle
20 november 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk Amazon's best books of the year, The National Book Award winners, Goodreads Choice Award nominees, and much more.
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Discussed in this episode:
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Book Riot’s Best Books of 2023
Rebecca’s victory lap for the Barnes & Noble Book of the Year
A sigh of relief for Jeff, Paul Harding did not win the NBA
And Amazon editors agree - their best books of 2023
Goodreads Choice Awards kick off
Data Baby by Susannah Breslin
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
Everything I Learned I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin
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Inclusive Insider Baseball
13 november 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about Barnes & Noble's finalists for Book of the Year, a treasure trove of literary awards data, the stunning catalog of audiobooks from Spotify, and more.
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Discussed in this Episode:
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Finalists for Barnes & Noble Book of the Year
WNDB launches Indigenous Reads Rising
35 years of National Book Awards data
A Look at audiobook economics
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Pop Diva Rumspringa
6 november 2023 · 56 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the sales numbers for The Woman in Me, PW's best books of the year list, the Fourth Wing adaptation announcement, and more.
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It's happening, readers — we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you hate carrying around bulky hardcovers, you're on a budget, you want a wider range of recommendations, or all of the above, you can now get a paperback subscription from TBR, curated just for you by one of our Bibliologists. You can also gift it (and the holidays, they are coming). Get all the details at mytbr.co.
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Britney sales numbers
PW’s best books of 2023
There’s a Fourth Wing adaptation coming
Highlights of a couple new studies about Americans’ reading habits
Barnes & Noble Discover Prize goes to The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
12 Things Rebecca Learned in 12 Years of Book Riot
Blackouts by Justin Torres
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
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Speaking of Therapy
30 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 13 min
Rebecca and Jenn Northington discuss Scholastic's decision to walk back the plan to silo diverse books, BookTok's takedown of a Taylor-Travis fanfic, and more. Then Rebecca is joined by Kelly Jensen for a conversation about Britney Spears's new memoir, The Woman in Me.
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Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes!
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Michelle Williams impersonates Justin Timberlake in Britney Spears’s memoir
Nailed it: Oprah selects Let Us Descend for final book club of 2023
Update: Scholastic walks back separate diversity collection
YA author opens bookstore dedicated to banned books & marginalized authors
BookTok takes down a Tayvis romance
How much should books cost?
"Purge the Poison" by Marina
A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard
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The Starving Caterpillar
23 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the celebrity memoir boomlet, Levar Burton hosting the National Book Awards, renovating Barnes & Noble, Scholastic separating LBGTQ+ and other marginalized books, the Lessons in Chemistry adaptation, and more.
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Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes!
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
RIP Louise Glück
Update: Michelle Williams is the support narrator for Britney’s memoir
Update: LeVar Burton to host NBA ceremony
Scholastic confirms option to withhold LGBTQ+ titles from book fairs
Barnes & Noble’s new looks seem to be paying off
That American Fiction trailer tho
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
Blackouts by Justin Torres
MCU
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
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Mental Tattoos. They're Called Memories.
16 oktober 2023 · 46 min
Jeff and Rebecca discuss listener feedback about Spotify audiobooks & the mystery Nov 7th Red Tower release, several interesting book announcements, recent reading, and more.
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Autumn is here, which means it’s time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it’s romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes!
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
UK authors union demands info about Spotify’s audiobook licensing
Salman Rushdie memoir about stabbing
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
Company by Shannon Sanders
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Saying Goodbye to Louise Glück
13 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 7 min
American poet and 2020 Nobel Laureate Louise Glück has passed away. She was something of a house favorite here, so we thought we'd share a rebroadcast of the time Jeff and Rebecca talked about the life and work of Louise Glück, plus an extended discussion of her 1993 poem, “Vespers.” RIP, Louise Glück, we are so grateful for your work and your life.
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The Collected Poems of Louise Glück
“The Body Artist” by Dan Chiasson
“Vespers” by Louise Glück
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The Most Impossible Single Task of Literary Discernment
9 oktober 2023 · 54 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the honoree of the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature, the National Book Award finalists, free audiobooks coming to Spotify subscribers, and more.
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Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes!
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Nobel winner Jon Fosse
NBA finalists
Spotify to make audiobooks free for premium users
Leave the World Behind trailer
Making It So by Patrick Stewart
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
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A New Thing Under the Sun
2 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 18 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about Book3 (and reactions to it), a survey about what libraries think of book bans, the U.S. suing Amazon, and more.
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Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes!
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Results of the parent perceptions survey BR partnered on with EveryLibrary
The Atlantic got the data about the 183,000 books in Books3 AI training set
FTC sues Amazon for unlawful monopoly
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
The Book of (More) Delights by Ross Gay
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
How to Fight Book Bans & Censorship
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Borrowed and Banned
29 september 2023 · 27 min
As an extra for you this week, we are delighted to share the first episode of Borrowed and Banned, a new podcast made by our friends at the Brooklyn Public Library. This 7-episode limited series, hosted by Virginia Marshall and Adwoa Adusei, tells the story of America's ideological war with its bookshelves by talking with students on the frontlines, the librarians and teachers whose livelihoods are endangered when they speak up, and the writers whose books have become a political battleground. Lees meer
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Homer Was On One
25 september 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the National Book Award for Fiction longlist, a bunch of red states leaving the American Library Association, a teacher getting fired for teaching The Diary of Anne Frank, and Oprah's next surprising book club pick.
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Book Riot’s editorial team is writing for casual and power readers alike over at The Deep Dive! During the month of September, all new free subscribers will be entered to win Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, plus 5 mystery books from The Deep Dive. To enter, simply start a free subscription to The Deep Dive. No payment method required! Lees meerDiscussed in this episode:
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Deep Dive shout-out: The Bestseller List is Broken
Texas teacher fired after reading aloud from graphic novel of Anne Frank’s diary
Red states cut ties with ALA
Reading IT’S PERFECTLY NORMAL
Project Gutenberg releases 5,000 public domain audiobooks w/ AI narration
Bidding opens Tues 9/26, in the Authors for Voices of Color auction to support WNDB
Oprah’s next pick is also 600+ pages long, and she’s only giving it a month
National Book Award Longlist
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Time For Bed
18 september 2023 · 49 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about a bunch of recent reading, Drew Barrymore getting booted from the National Book Awards, and I guess that pretty much covers it.
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First Edition!
First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack.
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Update: Pulitzer board amends citizenship requirements
Ongoing: More authors sue OpenAI
National Book Awards drops Drew Barrymore as host
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
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Nexuses of Attention
11 september 2023 · 58 min
Jenn Northington joins Jeff to talk about book blurbs, book sales, and the fundamental tension of Goodreads.
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Book Riot's editorial team is writing for casual and power readers alike over at The Deep Dive! During the month of September, all new free subscribers will be entered to win Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, plus 5 mystery books from The Deep Dive. To enter, simply start a free subscription to The Deep Dive. No payment method required!
Discussed in this episode:
First Edition!
First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack.
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
The Conundrum of Blurbs
Goodreads is Terrible for Books: Why Can’t We All Quit It?
Wait, how many copies do most books sell?
Dictionary.com adds 566 New Words for 2023
Texas Judge Blocks Book Ban Law
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Do You Think the Books are Fine?
3 september 2023 · 54 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk early 2023 prize lists, Jeff's trip to the UK, recent reading, and more.
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Book Riot's editorial team is writing for casual and power readers alike over at The Deep Dive! During the month of September, all new free subscribers will be entered to win Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, plus 5 mystery books from The Deep Dive. To enter, simply start a free subscription to The Deep Dive. No payment method required!
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First Edition!
First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack.
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Listener feedback re: The Book of Hov.
Kirkus Prize finalists
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper
The Guest by Emma Cline
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire
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Guest Post: Modern Indie Bookselling with Josh Cook
28 augustus 2023 · 41 min
Jeff and Rebecca are out this week, wrapping up the last bits of summer vacation, so we are dropping Jeff's recent interview on First Edition with Josh Cook into the feed.
On the occasion of his new book, The Art of Libromancy: Selling Books and Reading Books in the 21st Century, Josh Cook of Porter Square books joins Jeff for a conversation about modern indie bookselling.
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