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Book Riot - The Podcast — 917 episodes
The Hot List for July 2026
Book Sales Down so Far in 2026, THE ODYSSEY Hype is Peaking, and more.
THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER
Big Time Book Announcements, PW's Fall Preview, the AI State of Play, and More.
The It Books of July 2026
How Reading Became Sexy (but We're Doing Less of It)
The Best Books of 2026 So Far
What 20,000 AI-Generated Stories Have in Common
The Hot List for June 2026
The Publishing Pie is Getting Bigger, But Not Enough to Keep Up with The Slices
The Messy Power Couple of the Harlem Renaissance
Best Books of the Year So Far Lists Have Begun. PLUS: Dr. Maria McCauley of the ALA
The It Books of June 2026
The Summer Slowdown is Here
2026 Summer Adaptation Preview
AI is Making Reading Really Messy.
The Hot List for May 2026
A New Best Novels of All-Time List, PRH's "Strong Business Performance, and More.
2026 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Show, Part 2
The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes
The It Books of May 2026
Spring 2026 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Show, Part 1
Why Literary Agents Matter with Laura McGrath
People Know Reading is Good and Still Don't Do It.
Ranking the Fiction Pultizer Prize Winners of the Century So Far.
Surprising (Maybe) Data About American Reading Habits
The Hot List: April 2026
MCD Shutters, Audible's Story House, and More of the Week's Book News.
You Have Heard of Lord Byron. But You Have No Idea.
Book Sales Are Softening, NBCC Winners, and More Book News.
The It Books of April 2026
The Lambda Literary Awards, Messy Internet Discourse, the Latest A.I. Panic, and More
Alien Jazz Hands for PROJECT HAIL MARY
Wait, How Many Books Were Published in 2025? PLUS: Louise Erdrich!
The Hot List March 2026
Blume is a Big "No Comment" on her biography, ACOTAR adaptation takes a step backward, and more.
Markus Zusak on THE BOOK THIEF at 20
UPDATED The Audiobook Wars Rage On, Big ACOTAR Announcement, and More
The It Books of March 2026
A Proposed Nationwide Book Ban, The NYPL's Most Checked Out Books of All-Time, and more
How Much Are You Like The Characters You Read About?
DNF Shelves Coming to Goodreads and The War For Your Ears Continues
Ranking Amazon's Best Books of the Century
Another Book Section Bites the Dust and A Romance Writer Dances with the AI Devil
Power Ranking the Books of 2016
Librarians on the Front Lines
The It Books of February 2026
Making Sense of Franchise Adaptation News
VIGIL by George Saunders
The Best-Selling Publishers of the Year, NBCC Finalists, Adapted Screenplay Oscar Noms, and more.
Lit History Corner: Christopher Marlowe
How Are We Feeling About Book Sales Right Now?
2026 Adaptation Preview
The Latest in American Reading Habits, 2026 Adaptations, and More
The Winter 2026 New Release Draft [Teaser]
The It Books of January 2026
Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026
Zero to Well-Read's 2025 Canon Contenders
AI Was The Story of the Year
The Books We Missed in 2025 [Teaser]
The Best of the Rest of 2025 [Teaser]
UPDATED - Our Favorite Books of 2025
The 2025 Read Harder Challenge, How Publishing People Feel about Publishing, and more
So, How's the Hamnet Adaptation?
Goodreads Choice Winners, NYT 10 Best, and Spotify Wrapped for Audiobooks
2025 It Books Scorekeeping and December New Releases
The 2025 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 2
The 2025 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1
Books Of The Year Season Peaks
What is Magical Realism?
On Putting Together a Best Books of the Year List
Fall Media Diet Check-In (Plus Other Life Pursuits) [Teaser]
The Books We Still Want to Read in 2025
Speculating on The Book of the Year and the Impacts of AI on Writing
What We Want from Essays: DEAD & ALIVE by Zadie Smith
Checking in with We Need Diverse Books
The It Books of November 2025
The Eye of the Best Books of the Year Storm Approaches
Deep into that Darkness Peering
National Book Award Announces Host, B&N Discover Prize, and more book news.
The Seventeen Year-Old Who Invented Science Fiction
How Much Does Genre Matter to Readers?
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, NBA Finalists, and more award season news. PLUS: Hachette CEO David Shelley
Zero to Well-Read: TWILIGHT by Stephenie Meyer
Anthropic Settlement Portal Shows All. Mostly.
The It Books of October 2025
The Booker Prize Finalists, Judge Shades Trump's Lawsuit Against PRH, and More Book News
The Books That Matter: THE SNOWY DAY
Trump Sues PRH, The National Book Award Fiction Longlist, and More Book News
Book Club: THE SECRET OF SECRETS by Dan Brown
National Book Awards Longlists, a Journey Into Literary History, and More
Introducing Zero to Well-Read, a New Podcast from Book Riot
Obama's Summer Reading List, B&N Buys Another Indie & More
The It Books of September 2025
Deals Deals Deals for August 2025 [Teaser]
KATABASIS by R.F. Kuang
American are Reading for Pleasure Less. A Lot Less.
Fall Adaptation Preview
We Need a Book Review Revolution
"Well-Read" is Hard to Define. But Real.
The 2025 Booker Longlist Is Here
The It Books of August
Making a Case for Supporting Independent Media, Way Early Award Nominations, and More
Power Ranking the Books of 1995
Mid-Year Check-in Time. PLUS: Rodney Freeman on ARE YOU A LIBRARIAN?
The Top Ten Books to Read to Be Well-Read
The Best Books of the Year So Far: Live at Powell's!
Summer 2025 Mailbag
Project Hail Mary Gets a Trailer, AI Is Fair Use (for now), and more book news of the week
The It Books of July 2025
NetGalley Launches Booktrovert Consumer Marketing Platform, BookTok's Obsession with Marginalia, and More
The Books of the Year So Far
Richard Linklater's BEFORE Trilogy [Teaser]
TikTok's Publishing Imprint Folds, BookCon Returns, and More Book News
The Most Recommendable Books of the Century (So Far)
E. Lockhart on the WE WERE LIARS Adaptation
Late Show Book Clubs, An Anti-Book Ban Lawsuit Wins, and More Book News. PLUS: How You Make a Best Books of the Year So Far List
So...Is it Good?: BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL by V.E. Schwab
AI Disasters, Amazon's Best Books of the Year So Far, and More Book News
Jeff’s “I Wish I Could Read All Day” Books of June 2025
The Beach Read Episode
Recent Reading and Some Media Diet Updates [Teaser]
Talking Audiobooks with Spotify & FLASHLIGHT by Susan Choi
The It Books of June 2025
Deals Deals Deals for May 2025 [Teaser]
Power Ranking the Books of 2005
The Latest BookTok Conspiracy, What the Library of Congress Actually Does, and More Book News
The 2025 Book Riot Fantasy League Book Draft
The JeffCore Books of May 2025 [Teaser]
The Pulitzer Drama Was Real and Other Book News PLUS: A Mini-Book Club for RUN FOR THE HILLS by Kevin Wilson
The Summer 2025 Draft [Teaser]
JAMES Wins the Pulitzer & Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendations Part 2
2025 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Show, Part 1
The It Books of May 2025
Ranking the Stories of EXIT ZERO by Marie-Helene Bertino by How Marie-Helene Bertino They Are [Teaser]
Celebrity Book Clubs GO IRL, Literary Grudges, and more book news
The 10 Best Winners of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction of the Century So Far
NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro, the book and the movie [Teaser]
Study Shows Book Bans Lead to Increased Readership, the "Shadow Daddies" of Romantasy, and More
Talking Bibliotherapy with Emely Rumble
Americans Want To Read More Books. Or Do They?
AUDITION by Katie Kitamura & and the Documentary BANNED TOGETHER
National Book Critics Circle Winners, Censorship Cases on a Collision Course with the Supreme Court, and more of the week's book news
The It Books of April
The Reading Life of Stephen Graham Jones
5 Fascinating Stats About Modern Reading Habits, with Laura McGrath
Which Classics Should You Read to Be "Well-Read"? [Teaser]
The Long Odds of the Slushpile, Adaptation News, and Picking Vacation Reading
Things We Love and Things We Hate About Talking About Books Online with Traci Thomas
The Book Riot Podcast Live at Powell's! [Teaser]
The GILEAD Adaptation is Real, Meta Streisands Itself, Powells Event Debrief and More of the Week's Book News.
Book Club: THE ANTIDOTE
New York Report, New Harper Lee Collection Announced, Golden Ticket Strategies, and more
The It Books of March 2025
Give Me Liberty AND Give Me Jeff
Who Will The Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay?
Will Romantasy Get a Shot at a Big-Time Adaptation?
Which Writers Could Most Benefit from a Signal Adaptation?
Deep Dive into LIFE IN THREE DIMENSIONS by Shigehiro Oishi [Teaser]
The Big 5 Are Indeed Big, First Major AI Verdict Comes In, Remembering Tom Robbins, and more.
Everything Romance with Jessica Pryde
Deals Deals Deals for February 2025 [Teaser]
Gaiman Sued, Blurbs Deprecated, and A Book Sales Check-In
The It Books of February 2025
We Talk About WE DO NOT PART by Han Kang [Teaser]
Dark Horse Drops Gaiman, Ebooks Come to Bookshop, ONYX STORM is the Fastest-Selling Books in 20 years, and more.
Writers to Watch, 2025 Edition
ONYX STORM Rolls In, It's a Very Bookish Oscars, and Making Your Own Book Fair
Power Ranking the Books of 2015
Hot List Check in for January 2025 [Teaser]
The Neil Gaiman Story Gets Worse, Best-Selling Books of 2024, and The Price of Books with Kathleen Schmidt
Spring 2025 Adaptation Preview
FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros [Teaser]
Book Riot's Most Anticipated Books of 2025, The Unbearable Whiteness of the Goodreads Choice Awards and...Jeff read ALL FOURS. And Jeff and Rebecca Both Read FOURTH WING
More of Our Most Anticipated Books of 2025
The It Books of January 2025
The 2025 Winter Preview Draft [Teaser]
NIGHTBITCH is in the Wild. Is it Good?
The Books To Watch for in 2025
The Best of the Rest of 2024 [Teaser]
Emergency Podcast: On Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 [Teaser]
The Year in Review
The Books We Missed This Year [Teaser]
Taking Stock of the Year in Adaptations
The Books of the Year
How THE NEW YORK TIMES Picks The 100 Notable, and 10 Best, Books of the Year
Our Favorite Books of the Year
The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024, Goodreads Choice Winners, Spotify's Most-Listened Audiobooks, and more.
Looking Back at Our It Book Picks of the Year, Interesting December Releases, and a Few More Holiday Recommendations
2024 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part the Second
The Best Gift Books of 2024
2024 Holiday Recommendation Show (Part 1) + the 2024 National Book Awards
Power Ranking the Books of 1994
Amazon's Best Books of the Year, Goodreads Choice Voting, and More
The Books Most Likely to Be on THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 Notable Books of 2024 List
The Black List
The It Books of November 2024
B&N's Book of the Year Finalists, PW's Books of the Year, Recent Reading, and What It's Like to Be a Newcomer in the World of Literary Agencies
The Impossible Book Questions We Want Answered
Barnes & Noble's Books of the Year, INTERIOR CHINATOWN and SAY NOTHING Look Promising, and More Book News
Author Buy/Sell/Hold: 2024 Edition
JAMES Kicks off Award Season, Taylor Swift's Book Makes Waves, TikTok's First Slate of Titles, and more.
35 Years of WHEN HARRY MET SALLY
Han Kang Wins the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature
What Are The 10 Most Interesting Questions in the World of Books and Reading?
National Book Award Finalists, MacArthur Geniuses, THE CORRECTIONS bags Streep, and More Book News
The It Books of October 2024
Booker Prize Shortlist, a new WUTHERING HEIGHTS Adaptation, and More Book News of the Week
Half-Baked Ideas, 2024 Edition [Teaser]
Is It Good?: INTERMEZZO by Sally Rooney
Notes from a Trip to New York, Recent Reading, and Amanda Litman from RUN FOR SOMETHING
Power-Ranking the Books of 2004
The 2024 National Book Award Longlist, GOOD OMENS Season Three 'Paused,' Rachel Kushner's CREATION LAKE, and More
Fall Adaptation Preview
NaNoWriMo's AI Controversy, The Internet Archive Loses in Court, Recent Reading, and Other Book News of the Week
The "It" Books of September 2024
The Fall 2024 New Release Draft [Teaser]
Predicting the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction Longlist
Breaking Down Obama's Summer Reading List, NYT's Article on Publishing Departures, Anthropic's Legal Challenge, and More
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION at 30
The List of the Best-Selling Books in the UK from the Last 50 Years is Wild.
We Saw IT ENDS WITH US So You Don't Have To
The Bookish Movies of 1999
Project 2025's Impact on Books and Education, Spotify Adds to Catalog, a Little Time on the Soap Box, and More
The It Books of August, 2024
Harris Book Sales Spike, the Hugos Catch Some Bad Cheaters, and More Book News
Our Ballots for the NYT's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century [Teaser]
Book Nerd Movie Club: THE NEVERENDING STORY
The Readers' List of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Predicting Obama's Summer Reading List, and more.
Building The 100 Best Books of the Century with Gilbert Cruz, Editor of THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
The Best Books of the 21st Century
Book Riot Editors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2024 So Far
ALA Takeaways, B&N Foot Traffic Surges, Library Hold Stats, and more
The It Books of July 2024
Our Favorite Books of 2024 So Far [Teaser]
JAMES Adaptation News, Wither Political Memoirs, Frieda McFadden Is Here To Low-Key Dominate Book Sales, and More
The Books of the Year...So Far
Barnes & Noble Buys a Beloved Indie, Book Sales are Way Up, Real Data on Diversity in Published Books, and more.
The Most Interesting People in the Publishing World
Book Club: EXHIBIT by R.O. Kwon [Teaser]
What Are Being Called The Best Books of the Year...So Far?
Power Ranking The Books of 2014
Our Literary Body Swap Wishlist [Teaser]
The Season of "Best Books of The Year...So Far" Has Begun, Costco Scaling Back Book Sales, Reese Grabs the Apple Bag, and more.
The "It" Books of June
Adaptation Nation: THE REMAINS OF THE DAY [Teaser]
How is Publishing Doing?
What is a Dad Book? Towards a New Theory (with Recommendations)
BRIDGERTON Season 3
The Surprising Origins of Publishing's Seasons
Deals, Deals, Deals: May 2024 [teaser]
Gone Girl
The Last of the Recommendation Responses, KNIFE by Salman Rushdie, and more
The 2024 Pulitzer Winners & Part 2 of Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendations
The Summer 2024 New Release Draft [Teaser]
2024 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Extravaganza, Part 1
"It Book" Knockout Round for May 2024
Parenting Books, CRAZY RICH ASIANS as a Musical, and We Want to Know the Fate of the Mouse
Looking at Bookish Social Media With Fresh Eyes [Updated]
The Best-Selling Books of the Year So Far, UK Covers on Sale in the US, and More.
Summer Adaptation Preview
Selling UK Covers in the US? Plus: a PLA report, JAMES is legit, and more.
Shogun, 3 Body Problem, Masters of the Air, A Gentleman in Moscow, Ripley...and Dune 2
Book Design, Spotify Rate Rumors, a New Museum of Children's Literature, and more
The "It" Books of April
The Best TV Shows of the 21st Century [Teaser]
Notes from a Reconnaissance Mission Into the State of Publishing
Underrated Authors
Our Media Diets [Teaser]
The NICKEL BOYS Adaptation, DC to Honor the First Trans Superhero, and a Basket of Book Banning News
People Will Come, Ray
Our Insta-Buy Authors [Teaser]
It's Time for Publishers to Tell the Truth About Posthumously Published Books
AMERICAN FICTION and Seeing The Book World On Screen and On the Page
A New Store and a New Publisher Both Trying to Reslice The Bookselling Pie
Who Will Win Best Adapted Screenplay?
Bookshop.org Is Audiobooks Curious, Ward Re-Ups, the State of Culture in 2024 & More
Book Club: The Book of Love by Kelly Link [bonus]
The "It" Books of March
Deals, Deals Deals: February 2024 [teaser]
Simon & Schuster's Odyssey Isn't Over, National Book Awards Open Up, and More
Talking DUNE
Listener Mailbag & Personalized Recommendations [Teaser]
Coincidences, Adaptations, and Recent Reading
The Best Adaptations of Romances & Love Stories
Be Back Soon
Checking in on the World of Romance
A Clandestine Texas Bookshelf, Argylle Fizzles, Spotify's Audiobook Royalties, and a Farewell to N. Scott Momaday
February "It Book" Knockout Round
Adapted Screenplay Nominees, Big 5 Really Just as Big, NBCC Award Finalists, and more
THE INTUITIONIST at 25 [Teaser]
Winter/Spring 2024 Adaptation Preview
Circuit Court Declares Texas Book Ban Law Unconstitutional, Barnes & Noble Opening New Stores, LA Public Library Buys a Publishing House, and more
What Are the 50 Hottest Books of the Moment? [Teaser]
Power Ranking the Books of 2019
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
Our Most Anticipated Books of 2024 (The First Bit of It, At Least)
Obama's Favorite Books of 2023, Iowa Book Banning Law Partially Stopped, Recent Reading, and more.
The Winter 2024 New Release Draft [Teaser]
January 2024 "It Book" Knockout Round
The Best of the Rest 2023 [Teaser]
The Year in Review
Bonus: The Books We Missed This Year [Teaser]
Wrapping Up Holiday Recommendation Requests & Our Most Giftable Books of the Year
Bonus: Our Favorite Books of 2023 [Teaser]
Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 2
2023 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1
The Prepositional Phrase After Trickle
Inclusive Insider Baseball
Pop Diva Rumspringa
Speaking of Therapy
The Starving Caterpillar
Mental Tattoos. They're Called Memories.
Saying Goodbye to Louise Glück
The Most Impossible Single Task of Literary Discernment
A New Thing Under the Sun
Borrowed and Banned
Homer Was On One
Time For Bed
Nexuses of Attention
Do You Think the Books are Fine?
Guest Post: Modern Indie Bookselling with Josh Cook
It's All Connected
The Internet's Disappointed Mom
Pass the Grudge Around
Ninth in the Line of Cultural Currency
UPDATED: The Ladder of Pockets
Beneficent Ben
Both Eyebrows Raised, But in Different Directions
You Are Your Own Lottery Ticket
Unsocial Situations
We Used to Have Fun
Shorten That Funnel, Baby
A Little High Falutin'
May I Suggest?
It All Sounds Dirty
People Have Lost Their Minds
Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendations: 2023
The Gimmick is Life
Submit for a recommendation for Moms, Dads, and Grads gifting season
Searching for the “It” Book of April
Wandering into Bookstores Barefoot
You Cannot Moonlight as David
MAD MEN, But for Publishing
Break This Coffee Mug and Eat It
Temporal Neophytes
Give the People What They Want
Rabbit-Deer Hybrid Thing
Buttering the Bricks [Updated]
A Tale as Old as the Medici
Riding on a High of Wanting to Be Different
Recreational Awe
The Apocalypse is For Everybody
No Country for Old Scuba Divers
9 Billion NDAs
Top 10 Most Anticipated Adaptations Coming in 2023
Camels and Wedges
The Top Bookish Stories of 2022
The Books of the Year
Our Favorite Books of 2022
2022 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 2
2022 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1
Where the Crawdads Sing 2
The Most Giftable Books of 2022
The Full Gutenberg
The Cap is a Feather
Little Fancy Boy on the Internet
The 10 Biggest Bookish Phenomena of Our Reading Lives
The Complete Tiffany Necklace
11% Devil
Dead Poets Society
Welcome to the Niche
When One of You is a Dragon
A Mist of Possibility
Where the Slugs Dwell
Go Kill a Watchman
The Tipping Point Was a Tipping Point
A Novel Trial
Millions of Canadians Cranking
Book Riot Matches Donations to the National Network of Abortion Funds
Save It For the Message Boards
Catch-451
Good Job, Matt
Mental Cellophane
A Feather in the Trap
The Implied Headline
Two Questions and a Comment
I’ve Got No Animal Paraphernalia
Playing by the Ruled
From Talk Easy: Jennifer Egan on Writing Through Time
Foley Artist on Mars
Manga Eyes of Desire
Exaggerate, Enhance, Create, and Reify
2022 Moms, Dad, and Grads Recommendation Show
Caffeinated, Liquid Snickers Bar
The Realm of Cookies
A Broken Hallelujah
From Talk Easy: Michael Lewis on The Premonition
They're All Lowlights
To Kill a Mockingbird Meets Nicholas Sparks
Nobels and Hostages
You Know How I Am With Bandwagons
Brandon Swagder$on
Dolly Partterson
Algorithms Gone Wild
Freudian Slippers
Crying with a Knife
Bankable Crossover
ASMR for Knowledge Workers
Complexity Doesn't Have to Be a Bummer
Which Way the Smarm Flows
The English Patient
Our Favorite Non-Book Things of 2021
Our Favorite Reads of 2021
2022 Holiday Recommendations, Part 2
2022 Holiday Recommendations, Part 1
The Boy, The Horse, The Whatever
Emotional Prudery
Franzen Erosion Curve
DUNE: Adaptation Nation Episode 1
Transparency Gateway
Monetize That Dream
Embrace the Mess
A Potato Chip in the Mouth Forever
They’re All Bad Metrics
Ascending Levels of Sauciness
Book Nerd Movie Club: THE MARTIAN
Spat Into the World
Special Episode: 2021 Fall Preview Draft
The Hamster Will Be Our Guinea Pig
Indiscriminate Scamming
G-Level Property
The Donkey Parade
Spicy Fun Spice
The Canonical Dorito
Infinite Monkeys
Convince Me I’m Right
Ding the Basket
Form-Forward
Our Favorite(?) Books of 2021 So Far.
Three Corners of an "It" Book
Summer Draft Results and SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER by Ashley Ford
FIELD OF DREAMS
The Austen-Industrial Complex
2021 Summer Preview Draft
Odyssey of Ache
Count Me Among the Uncool
2021 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Show
The Train is People
The Rolling Reckoning
Several Trepidations
Piñata of Lies
Georgia Sunrise
Klara & the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vox Biblioi
Emotional Senioritis
ELoyal to the Bit
Wiki in Shame
Southern Belles with Benefits
Pyrrhic Victory
Arrogance with Shine
Buy Stock in Amanda Gorman
2021 Spring Preview
A Picnic Basket for the Mind
There's a Caboose Coming
Best of the Rest: Our Favorite Non-Book Things of 2020
Our Favorite Reads of 2020
Serrated Crescendo
2020 Holiday Recommendations, Part 2
2020 Holiday Recommendations, Part 1
Null Hypothesis Feedback
THE WEST WING, Reconsidered
Spiritual Cheese
Buy, Sell, Hold: 2020's Notable Books
One Hour of Podcasting
Adaptation Wish List
You Need Three for a Parade
JACK by Marilynne Robinson
Gird Your Whatevers
Adaptation Nation: Little Fires Everywhere, High Fidelity, and Enola Holmes
Word of Mouth for Robots
(Re)Introducing Ourselves to Louise Glück
30 Dirty Spoons
Half Baked Ideas, Volume 2
A Mighty Hrrumpff
It Book: TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM by Yaa Gyasi
Sand Forward
EAT A PEACH by David Chang and DUNE Trailer Talk
German Flotilla
Book Nerd Movie Club: The Princess Bride
The Tyranny of Khaki
Deals Deals Deals
2020 Fall Preview
A Very Quiet Heist
Our Favorite Summer Reads of 2020
Me No Likey
High-Brow Scream Queen
V Plus Three
Gotta Fund These Shenanigans
A Lifeboat Made of Thorns
New Nonsense
The Egg and the Wall
It's An Honest Moustache
The B is for Beats
THE VANISHING HALF by Brit Bennett
Stealthily Moving Needles
A Bunch of Whatever Nimrods
You Should Be Uncomfortable
Whatever Falls Your Crest
What's Getting Us Through Right Now
2020 Moms, Dads, and Grad Recommendation Show
Worse Than a Promise
Fried Green Tomatoes (at the Whistle Stop Cafe)
We're Coming For You, Columbus
The 2020 Pulitzer Prizes
The Other Side of Vocational Awe
Influential Sweaters
Iceland's 2nd Most Famous Sweater
Deals, Deals, Deals
Oh, The Places You Won't Go
Welcome to the Book Riot Podcast!
Help Us Pick the Next Book Nerd Movie Club Episode
But What Day Is It
Traveling Without Moving
The Floppy Market
Confidence Index: Spring & Summer Movie Adaptations
COVID-19 Flips The Book World (and the Rest of the World) Upside Down
Big Book of 2020 Discussion: WEATHER by Jenny Offill
The Right Place From a Weird Place
Discussing Libraries and Publishing with Guy Gonzalez, lead for The Panorama Project
The Elephant IS the Room
Novel Gazing
Wheelhouse or Beehive
Book Nerd Movie Club: JURASSIC PARK
Vector of the Juice
KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, 20 Years Later
Different Day, Same Shirt
Discussing the First "It" Book of 2020: SUCH A FUN AGE by Kiley Reid
Constellation of Laziness
Reading Lives with Gabriel Bump
Libraries Versus Doughnuts
Talking Through the Publication of AMERICAN DIRT
Watching WATCHMEN
Winter/Spring 2020 Preview Show
Addendum to the Scolding
The Dr. Seuss Complex
The Books of the Decade
2019 Year in Review
Reverse Bermuda Triangle
2019 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 2
2019 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1
Clutching Intensifies
Nerd Nuggets
BONUS: Adaptation Nation
A Smaller But Messier Problem
BONUS: Baz Luhrmann's ROMEO + JULIET
Ice Cream Divergent
BONUS: THE WATER DANCER by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ducks! Geese! Sheep!
BONUS: Half-Baked Ideas
Flailing, Floundering, and Sinking
EBONUS: The Double Nobel
Agent of Chaos
BONUS: Book Nerd Movie Club: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
Louder and with a Different Person
BONUS: WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
The Morality Tax
BONUS: The Handmaid's Tale Phenomenon
Camp No Doy
BONUS: Book Nerd Movie Club: THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
EThe Book-Buying Version of the Zombie Apocalypse
BONUS: INTERPRETER OF MALADIES: 20 Years Later
Two Feet of Parchment About Moonstones
2019 Fall Book Preview
The Uncanny Valley of Human Communication
Knocking Out the Crawdads
Average Burgle Duration
Post-Botox Barnes & Noble
The Da Vinci Code
Canary of Disruption
Everything Is Going to Be OK
Troubling the Dan Brown Meridian
Value Over Replacement Barfing
No Nuance Whatsoever
#318: The Will to Prequel
#317: Chaotic Neutral
#316: NCIS: Vatican
#315: Hold the Needle
#314: Business Class Elite Diamond Platinum Plus
#313: The Hierarchy of Socks is Real
#312: 2019 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Show, Part 2
#310: Filigreed Elvish
#309: 2019 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendations, Part 1
#308: The Cargo Pants Pocket For Your Life
#307: Justice for Bob
#306: A Squirt of Something
#305: Selective Tree Hugging
Quick Note: Shenanigans and Snafus
#304: Narrative Fissure
#303: Durable Dirigibles
#302: Scrolling is Fundamental
#301: Bibliographic Rigor
#300: Notional Confetti Cannon
#299: Vamp a Euphemism
#298: The Ideal Turkey-to-Hero Ratio
#297: The Most Whimsical Whatever
#296: Orcs, Leprechauns, and All That Stuff
#295: A Basket of Fraught
#294: Rebecca is Not People
#293: Recommended
#292: Our Favorite non-Bookish Things of 2018
#291: The Year in Review
#290: Outsource Your Legs
#289: 2018 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 2
#288: 2018 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1
#287: Shruggie Parade, Updated
#286: A Tinfoil Hat Built For Two
#285: Exaggeration for Effect
#284: You Are Your Own Nanny
#283: The Streisand Effect
#282: Big Mood
#281: Door Number Three
#280: The Quiver is a Forest
#279: Hierarchy of Eyebrows
#278: Finally, Gravitas
#277: Pondering the Quibbles
#276: Unexpectedly Juicy
#275: The Hope of a Mushroom
#274: The Worm I Asked For
#273: Puberty Care Package
Muppet Arm Confetti Cannon
#271: Pop a Squat Randomly
#270: Wildly Gesticulating
#269: Charlatanism Quotient
#268: Original Recipe Jerkwad
#267: Antepentultimate Caboose
#266: Born in the Hot Seat
#265: Rarefied Air
#264: A Guillotine Moment
#263: Lotta Feet, Lotta Shoes
#262: Read the Room, BEA
#261: Therapy for Immortals
#260: 12 Angry Meta-Men
Catch Up With Recommended Season 1!
#259: The Third Way
#258: Something You Can Hold in Your Hands
#257: The Thin Edge of the Camel
B for Billion
Sticking it to the Man
#254: Killing Goliath with the Tipping Point
#253: Gay Bunnies and Ingenuity
A New Meridian
Cathartic Muppet Arms
You Made It Worse
A Funereal Mood
#248: No Heroes
#247: We Don't Know Where We Are
#246: Mundus Inversus
#245: Book Talk and Random Grievances
#244: A Sheep, Not a Sheepdog
#243: Meat-Related Analogies
#242: Let's Eat the Nothingburger
#241: Bear, Not the Naked Kind
#240: A Hierarchy of Delight: Our 2017 Year in Review
#239: The Squirrel Detective
#238: 2017 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 2
#237: 2017 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1
#236: One of the Other Toms
#235: I Think I Hate This
#234: Something Cotten in the State of Denmark
#233: Punching Bag Mattress
#232: Slightly Ridiculous
#231: Your Choice of Quadraped
#230: Fantastically Bonkers
#229: The Nature of Nature
#228: Adaptation Gold Rush
#227: Pig Steroids
#226: Everyone is Wrong
#225: Everyone's Hermione
#224: Dan Brown Goat Yoga
#223: O'Neal's Razor Is Satisfied
#222: Regularly Scheduled Awkwardness
#221: One Book Gravy Train
#220: Identity Squatting
#219: Don't @ Me
#218: Lexical Malfeasance
Quick Scheduling Note
#217: Boundless Theories
#216: Cross the Memes
#215: Minimum Viable Pottermore
#214: Deploy Your Nuance
#213: A Guy Who Still Uses LiveJournal
#212: A T-Shirt That Says, "Yea, Books"
#211: Crying Forearms
#210: Rolodex of Rants
#209: Moms, Dads, and Grad Recommendation Show, Part 2
#208: Moms, Dads, and Grad Recommendation Show, Part 1
#207: Patient Zahro
#206: Dump Adjacent
#205: Existential Benadryl
#204: Business Fingers
#203: The Dudeliest
#202: It Feels a Little Small
#201: Psychological Steamer Trunks
#200: You Asked Us Anything
#199: The Underbelly of American History
#198: Nefarious Shell-Less Mollusks
#197: Nothingburger Diagnosis
#196: Not a Woman, a Bra
#195: Antibiotics for the Soul
#194: That's How Counting Works
#193: It's All About the Casting
#192: Maw of Anticipation
#191: A Little Sweary
#190: Predictions and Wishes for 2017
#189: 2016 Year in Review
#188: Psychic Flannel Pajamas
#187: The Best Books of 2016
#186: Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 2
#185: 2016 Holiday Recommendation Show
#184: Feelings Narrative
#183: The Denim Version of Girding Your Loins
Book Riot Interviews: Zen Cho
#182: Slightly Misguided Tirade
BR Interviews: Sui Li
#181: Gory Droopeth
#180: She Does Not Mess Around
Book Riot Interviews: Ashley Ford, host of AUTHORIZED
#179: Obscure European Whatevers
#178: The "How" Matters
BR Interviews: Making Children's Books, with Minh Le and Rita Meade
#177: Berking Stephen King
#176: Startup Douchebag Jargon
#175: Fast-Paced Human Closeness
BR Podcast Interviews: Icema Gibbs from JetBlue about Soar with Reading
#174: I've Got a Rant in Me
#173: Birds and Nerd Stuff
#172: Progressively More Progressive
#171: J.K. Ledecky
Book Riot Podcast Interviews: CURSED CHILD discussion with Jackson Bird
#170: A/B Universe
#169: Respectacles
#168: The Biggest Book of the Year
#167: Competitive Spreadsheeting
#166: Crossing The Streams
#165: Speaking of Dander...
The Book Riot Podcast Interviews: 2016 Halftime Show with Lisa Lucas and Kevin Nguyen
#164: Notoriously Grumpy
#163: A Soft Spot for Barnes & Noble
Book Riot Podcast Interviews: N.K. Jemisin on Patreon
#162: The Social Norms of Quietude
#161: Guttural Side-Eye
#160: Corporeal Flesh Bag
#159: The Fridayiest of Thursdays
#158: The Train to Moneyville
#157: What Rabbit Hole Shall We Explore?
#156: Elon Musk Take the Wheel
#155: Narnes & Bloble
#154: The Bermuda Triangle, In a Good Way
#153: Intentional Whimsy
#152: The Nazi Witch Book Threshold
#151: One Chart to Rule Them All
#150: Creativity Hucksterism
#149: Assumptive Leap of Fear
#148: I Just Assume Japan Beats Us
#147: Fire-Hand Shadow-Puppet Wolf
#146: Magic Internet Dust
#145: Pot Committed
#144: Jed Bartlet's Patronus
#143: Hop in the Delorean
#142: Peter Flabbit
#141: Pajama Hierarchy
#140: Stay Woke, Holly Madison
#139: The Internet Illuminati
#138: Year in Review
#137: Lexical Acrobatics
#136: A Hole in Your Flaw
#135: 2015 Holiday Recommendation Show
#134: The Pod is Modular
#133: There's Only One Pie
#132: I'm Funny, You're Sad
#131: Working Super Blue
#130: Hunkering
#129: Reverse Goldilocks
#128: Where Do You Even Get Papyrus?
#127: Something Nerdy This Way Comes...
Ep. 126: Taking Off Their Smelly Socks
#125: Hella Whoa
#124: Are These the REAL Reasons?
#123: Gateway Underthings
#122: No News is Good News
#121: Engage Your Core
#120: The Most Predictable of Bummers
Introducing: Get Booked!
#119: I Would Not Be This Nice
#118: Metaphorically Afflutter
#117: Mangalf the Beige
#116: Your Anecdata is Invalid
#115: All the Asterisks
#114: Happier Sausage-Making
#113: Snowshoe Fascinator
#112: The Opposite of Boggart
#111: Full Up on Jonathans
#110: Extremely Corporeal
#109: Just Burn the Whole Thing Down
#108: Gardening by Astral Projection
#107: Marples and Holmeses
#106: The Warhorse of Literary Criticism
Introducing: All the Books!
#105: Not Without Genre
#104: Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Show
#103: Bundling Island
#102: Informercial in the Sky
#101: So Many Fedoras
#100: Tattoos and Toni Morrison
#99: Sweating to the Classics
#98: Cervantesish Bones
#97: Beautifully Juicy
#96: The Lure of Waffles
#95: The Specialist Snowflake
#94: The Absurdity Hour
#93: Liquified Smurf
#92: Schrodinger's Mockingbird
#91: Fluffing My Tutu
#90: Buzz Threshold
#89: DefCon Three and a Half
#88: A Taste for Turmoil
#87: Collective Zerbert Noise
#86: Year in Review
#85: Eating Crazy Sandwiches
#84: Just Call Us Butter
#83: The Buzz Got Super-Big
#82: Holiday Recommendation Extravaganza Bonanza, Part 2
#81: Holiday Recommendation Extravaganza Bonanza, Part 1
#80: Snow Globe Consciousness
#79: General Purpose Sceptering
#78: Dirty Laundry on Our Mind-Floor
#77: The Literal Expletive
#76: The Virtues of Difficulty
#75: Trifecta of Tangets
#74: Live from Brooklyn
#73: Pizza, Books, and Spreadsheets
#72: Miller Lite and a Banana Peel
#71: The Reading Life of Rebecca Schinsky
#70: Homebrewed Hoots and Hollers
#69: Here Is Your Bounty of Goods
Interlude #3: Introducing Oh, Comics!
#68: The Longest of Long Tails
#67: There Goes My Gravitas
#66: The Ghost of Ray Bradbury
#65: Locally Grown Prose
#64: Sniffing My Equipment
#63: Lab Rats with Existential Problems
#62: Blushing on the Radio
#61: A Secret Bank of Uncomfortable Topics
#60: They Suddenly Became Reasonable Human Beings
#59: Helvetica or Whatever
#58: Library Barnacles
#57: Before We Get Cranky
#56: Stealing Pitchforks from Villagers
#55: Book Expo America 2014
#54: Everyone's Anxieties About Everything
#53: Space MacGyver
#52: A Rorschach Test for Craziness
Interlude #2: The Riot Read
#51: Toilet Seat Ethics
#50: Recommendations for Moms, Dads, and Grads
#49: Jonathan Franzen's Seduction Cupcakes
#48: McRibbed For Your Pleasure
#47: Huge Turkeys at the Top
#46: Alice Munroonie
#45: Guns That Shoot Novellas
#44: Metaphorically Bite-Sized
#43: When in Doubt, Set it on Fire
#42: A Unicorn in a Sea of Dudes
#41: Kermit the Frog's Clavicles
#40: We Just Know Nothing
#39: An Inexhaustible Vortex of Narrative
#38: Don't Bring Poetry to a Knife Fight
#37: Everything Was a Surprise
#36: Internet Book Hermits
#35: The Bad Sense of Kryptonite
#34: The Opposite of a Donkey (Our 2013 Year in Review)
#33: Wet Lettuce Blankets
#32: We are the Jerks
#31: The Magical Journey of Hmmmmm
#30: The Nerdiest of Elves (Our Holiday Book-Giving Guide)
#29: Back on the Meat
#28: Vicarious Book Porn
#27: Did Done Did Big Data
#26: That's Verbatim, Baby
Interlude #1: A Chat with Neil Gaiman
#25: Deliciously Awkward
#24: Our Mutual Crush
#23: Methodology Bullets
#22: Accountability Pants
#21 Confounding Factors
#20: Seared and Freckled
#19: Insomnia for Hypochondriacs
#18: Bastardized Latin Phrases
#17: Coming At You From All Angles
#16: Climax at the Climax
#15: Fairy Podparent
#14: If You Give a Dude a Gadget
#13: Aerosolized Ego
#12: Who Moved My Cheese That I Learned About In Kindergarten While I Was Eating Soup for My Soul?
#11: J.K. Rowling Tin Foil Hat Moment
#10: Giant Mr. Darcy
#9: Bad Job, Old Dudes
#8: Theater of the Mind
#7: You're in the Danger Zone
#6: Awesome Just Falls Out of You
#5: Just Sitting Around, Coming of Age.
#4: People Having Thoughts in Brooklyn
#3: The Gandalf of Poetry
#2: Pillow Talk with Robert Langdon
#1: Leaving a Whoopee Cushion for Santa Claus