Book Riot - The Podcast

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Book Riot's Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinsky discuss the latest news in the world of books and reading, including hot new releases, adaptations, publishing industry events, and more.

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December 18, 2024 Bonus Preview: The Books We Missed This Year
A preview of our most recent Patreon-only episode about the books we missed this year (though, maybe we will get to a few of them? maybe?).
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7min
December 18, 2024 Taking Stock of the Year in Adaptations
Jeff and Rebecca take a look at the hits, misses, and favorites from the year in literary adaptations.
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52min
December 16, 2024 The Books of the Year
Jeff and Rebecca settle in to figure what 10 books from 2024 defined the year. Not the best (necessarily), the most popular (though could be), or most interesting (in many cases not), but a list that comes closest to telling the story of 2024 in reading.
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48min
December 12, 2024 How THE NEW YORK TIMES Picks The 100 Notable, and 10 Best, Books of the Year
Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, joins Jeff to talk about the colossal undertaking that is making its 100 Notable Books List and its 10 Best Books of the Year List.
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49min
December 11, 2024 Our Favorite Books of the Year
Jeff and Rebecca reveal their favorite books of 2024.
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James by Percival Everett
There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Splinters by Leslie Jamison
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
The Other Significant Others
Colored Television
Margot's Got Money Trouble
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
Blackpill
Ghostroots by Pemi Aguda

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1h 6min
December 09, 2024 The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024, Goodreads Choice Winners, Spotify's Most-Listened Audiobooks, and more.
Jeff and Rebecca get into the NYT's 100 Notable and 10 Best Books of the Year list, Goodreads Choice winners, Cormac McCarthy's distressing hidden relationship, and kidney stones.
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Cormac McCarthy’s secret muse was 16 when he began a relationship with her
Costco to keep books in-store year-round in 100 locations
The NYT’s 100 notable books of the year and Top 10
Spotify reveals top audiobooks in the US & globally
Goodreads Choice Awards are as white as ever
The Tournament of Books shortlist has landed
Taylor Swift book sales best everyone but Barack
Rental House by Weike Wang
The Boys of Riverside
What's Next
Nightbitch

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1h 18min
December 04, 2024 Looking Back at Our It Book Picks of the Year, Interesting December Releases, and a Few More Holiday Recommendations
Jeff and Rebecca do a few more holiday recommendations before talking about nine interesting new books coming in December and then taking stock of their monthly It Book guesses.
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Our Full Year It Books Finalists and Picks
Big List of Steamy Romances
Nuts and Bolts
Challenger
Cork Dork
Greta & Valdin
Parable of the Sower
Land of Milk and Honey
Martyr!
Intermezzo
Strange Eventful History
The Bee Sting
Say Nothing
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Rental House
A Century of Tomorrows
Giant Love
The Rivals
The Rest is Memory by Lily Tuck
Alter Ego by Alex Segura
Custodians of Wonder
Cabin by Patrick Hutchinson

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48min
December 02, 2024 2024 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part the Second
Jeff and Rebecca return for the second half of our 2024 Recommendation Extravaganza.
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Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Tommy Orange
Pachinko
A Gentleman in Moscow
Kevin Wilson
Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
The Sellout
Bookshop.org
Little Blue Truck
Pete’s a Pizza
Race to the Wild
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
House on the Cerulean Sea
The Parker Inheritance
Winnie the Pooh
8 Books About Houses Haunted by More Than Ghosts
20 Must-Read Stories of Eerie Cabins & Haunted Houses
Hacienda by Isabel Canas
Ghostroots by Pemi Aguda
All the Right Notes by Dominic Lim
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
Life is Meals
Ross Gay
Year of Wonder by Clemency Burton Hill
Pig Years
Carolyn Heilbrun’s Kate Fansler Series
Eleanor Catton
Brit Bennett
Kevin Wilson
Zadie Smith
Colson Whitehead
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Pride and Prejudice
Count of Monte Cristo
House of Mirth
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell
Tana French
New Cozy Books to Snuggle Up With This Fall
Cozy Historical Fantasy
Cozy, Comforting BIPOC Books
Legends & Lattes
The Night Circus
Book with No Pictures by BJ Novak
What Do People Do All Day by Richard Scarry
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Jesmyn Ward
North Woods
The Sympathizer
23 of the Best & Swooniest Romantasy Reads
Small World by Jonathan Evison
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
East of Eden
Frederick Backman
Thursday Murder Club
Sipsworth
Creation Lake
Someone Like Us
Entitlement
People in the Trees
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Intermezzo
The Mighty Red
I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
Such a Fun Age
The Vanishing Half

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1h 14min
November 27, 2024 The Best Gift Books of 2024
Jeff and Rebecca recommend books released in 2024 that would make great gifts — for a bunch of different kinds of readers.
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
The God of the Woods
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
By The Fire We Carry
Bone of the Bone
The Serviceberry
Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts
What Goes With What
Kids Cook Anything by Mark Bittman
The Other Significant Others
Vanishing Treasures
Beautiful Creatures
Margot's Got Money Troubles
Colored Television
Knife
Smoke Kings
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Cue the Sun!
The Bright Sword
Mythos by Stephen Fry
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
The Researcher's First Murder

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57min
November 25, 2024 2024 Holiday Recommendation Show (Part 1) + the 2024 National Book Awards
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards a little before embarking on the first of two rounds of answering listener holiday recommendation requests.
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Angie Kim
Megan Abbott
Liz Moore
Dr No
Motherless Brooklyn
The Most Fun We Ever Had
On Beauty
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Yellowface
Everything I Never Told You
Jami Attenberg
Colored Television
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
Chemistry
Margo’s Got Money Trouble
Birnam Wood
House of Cotton
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Overstory
The God of the Woods
The Trees
Barkskins
The Most
Greek Lessons
The Buddha in the Attic
Wintering
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Greta & Valdin
Michael Lewis
Steven Johnson
Hanif Abdurraquib
Challenger
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
How Big Things Get Done
Gilead
Our Souls at Night
The Woman Next Door
Educated
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
Looking for a Sign
Merry Little Meet Cute
Storied Life of AJ Fikry
Ink Blood Sister Scribe

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1h 15min

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