Book Riot - The Podcast

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News in the world of books and reading, including hot industry releases, adaptations, publishing industry events, and more with Book Riot’s Jeff O’Neal and Rebecca Schinsky.

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January 07, 2025 More of Our Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Jason Blitman of the Gays Reading podcast joins Jeff and Rebecca to talk about more books to watch for in 2025. Jeff and Rebecca also joined Jason on Gays Reading for more picks in this episode.
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Book Riot’s TBR
The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon

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46min
January 06, 2025 The It Books of January 2025
Jeff and Rebecca ring in the new year with another It Book knockout round. A storm gathers. Can anyone sail through it?
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Book Riot’s TBR
The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
The 2025 Read Harder Challenge is live
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
We Do Not Part by Han Kang
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
The Loves of My Life by Edmund White
Dare I Say It by Naomi Watts
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth by Markus Zusak
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
The Crash by Frieda McFadden
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

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36min
January 04, 2025 The 2025 Winter Preview Draft [Teaser]
A preview of our 2025 Winter Preview Draft on our Patreon. Jeff and Rebecca draft 10 books each and then ask listeners to vote on which list they want to win, for whatever reason they like.
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6min
January 03, 2025 NIGHTBITCH is in the Wild. Is it Good?
Rebecca sits down with Book Riot's managing editor Vanessa Diaz to discuss Marielle Heller's adaptation of Nightbitch starring Amy Adams and Scoot McNairy. Nightbitch is streaming now on Hulu.
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Marielle Heller Explores the Feral Side of Motherhood

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41min
December 30, 2024 The Books To Watch for in 2025
Jeff and Rebecca preview the books of 2025 (that we know about) that will be on the reading world's radar in 2025.
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Book Riot’s TBR
The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram
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The 2025 Read Harder Challenge is live

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47min
December 27, 2024 The Best of the Rest of 2024 [Teaser]
A little teaser for our Best of the Rest of 2024 episode over on the Book Riot podcast Patreon. Rebecca and Jeff talk about their favorite non-book things from 2024, a few of which might be of interest to other humans.
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7min
December 24, 2024 Emergency Podcast: On Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 [Teaser]
A preview of the first-ever EMERGENCY bonus episode for Patreon subscribers. Obama released his favorite books of 2024. Let's just say there were surprises.
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December 23, 2024The Year in Review
Jeff and Rebecca look back at the books & stories that defined 2024.
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Discussed in this episode:
Book Riot’s TBR
The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
The 2025 Read Harder Challenge is live
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The dust settled as publishing’s earnings rebound in H1
Barnes & Noble is back, baby, and they bought a beloved indie
The Discourse:
Remember the moment when some people thought Taylor Swift wrote Argylle?
PRH dismisses Reagan Arthur & Lisa Lucas
NYT’s top 100 books of the century so far
NaNoWriMo’s PR fail with AI
only 20k serious readers of lit fic?
Coming Attractions:
Spielberg in talks to produce James adaptation directed by Taika Waititi
Liz Moore signs Sony deal for Long Bright River & God of the Woods
Meryl Streep in adaptation of The Corrections
Florence Pugh in East of Eden for Netflix
The Black List expands to fiction & highlights publishing’s most-wanted adaptations,
Book banning news:
Idaho library to become adults-only
High school shuts down library due to book banning law
Big Five and Authors Guild sue over Florida law
PRH hires a public policy role
Many states have banned book bans
In memoriam:
Daniel Kahneman
John Gierach
Edna O’Brien
Francine Pascal
Nikki Giovanni
Paul Auster
The #metoo trifecta of Cormac McCarthy, Alice Munro, and Neil Gaiman
The robots are coming:
authors sue Anthropic
Roxane Gay & Margaret Atwood among authors helping create AI reading guides
Number go up: US audiobook sales hit $2 billion in 2023
One to watch: ByteDance’s 8th Note Press to publish print books in 2025
This is why literacy matters: Florida dept of education recommends Pride & Prejudice as a book about American pride
Listener feedback award: the surprising origins of publishing’s seasons, Sophia’s It Books tracker

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51min
December 18, 2024 The Books We Missed This Year [Teaser]
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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6min
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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The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon

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49min

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