Bookshop.org Founder Andy Hunter joins Jeff to talk about Bookshop now offering ebooks. Then, Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project, comes on to talk about her bookish reading challenge: read for 25 in '25.

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Bookshop.org Now Sells Ebooks

Gretchen Rubin's 25 in '25 Challenge

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Jeff uses Susie Dumond's piece for Book Riot about 2025 predictions as a framework for taking stock of where we are and what the year may hold for publishing and reading.

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Book Trend Predictions for 2025

Bed and Break-Up by Susie Dumond

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Jeff talks to Nnedi Okorafor about her life as a reader. Her new book, Death of the Author, is out now.

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Jeff is joined by Adam Vitcavage of Debutiful to talk about covering debuts, new authors, and all that entails.

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Debutiful (podcast)

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This was my favorite 2024 episode of First Edition, so I thought I'd repost it for you this holiday week. Join me to explore the reading life of U.S. National Poet Laureate Ada Limón.

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You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, edited by Ada Limón

In Praise of Mystery by Ada Limón, illustrated by Peter Sis.

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Book Riot's Sharifah Williams joins Jeff to talk about her piece, "The Books Won't Save Us."

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The Books Won't Save Us by Sharifah Williams

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A couple of segments here ported over from The Book Riot Podcast. First, Brooke Nagler tells us what it's like to break into the world of literary agenting. Then, Franklin Leonard and Randy Winston talk about their project, The Black List.

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The Book Group

The Black List

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Book Riot editor Danika Ellis joins Jeff to talk about how she tracks bestsellers for Book Riot, how growing up online was sort of great, and what we see (or don't) when we read.

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The Best-Selling Books of the Week

The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week

Books Aren't Mental Movies: You're Missing the Best Part of Reading

I'm Glad I Grew Up Online

Aphantasia Self-Test

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An audio version of a post I wrote for Book Riot recently, The 10 Most Interesting Questions in the World of Books and Reading.

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This episode is from our old podcast series Annotated, and it seemed fitting to bring it out of the archive this election season. In this episode: A woman with no prior political experience decides to run for city commission in her small college town. So she goes to the library and checks out a book called How to Win a Local Election. And she wins. This is her story and the story of the book that helped her win.

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