Book Riot - The Podcast

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. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!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.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Discussed in this episode:Sign up for Better Living Through Books and the BR Pod newsletterFirst Edition!The Book Riot Podcast PatreonBride by Ali HazelwoodThe American Daughters by Maurice Carlos RuffinThe Women by Kristin HannahThe Great Wave by Michiko KakutaniThe Book of Love by Kelly LinkGreta & Valdin by Rebecca K. ReillyA Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia WilliamsSplinters by Leslie JamisonWandering Stars by Tommy Orange Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!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.Discussed in this episode:Sign up for Better Living Through Books and the BR Pod newsletterFirst Edition!The Book Riot Podcast PatreonKansas introduces anti-book ban billIndependent publishers chip away at Big Five’s hold on bestseller listsNBCC awards finalistsOscar nominees are out and apparently Barbie is an adaptation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of The Intuitionist, Jeff and Rebecca dive deep on Colson Whitehead's debut novel.Join us on Patreon for access to ad-free listening and premium content: https://www.patreon.com/bookriotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk about notable adaptations coming out over the next few months.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!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.Discussed in this episode:Sign up for Better Living Through Books and the BR Pod newsletterFirst Edition!The Book Riot Podcast PatreonMonsieur Spade Masters of the AirThe Taste of ThingsThe ExpatsOrigin (based on Caste)Feud: Capote vs The SwansArgylleIt Ends With UsDune 2Lisa FrankensteinSpaceman3 Body ProblemApples Never FallCivil WarLoTR: War of the Rohirrim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!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.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Discussed in this episode:Sign up for Better Living Through Books and the BR Pod newsletterFirst Edition!The Book Riot Podcast PatreonBig win: Fifth Circuit declares Texas book bans unconstitutionalAnti-book ban bill introduced in New Mexico and Massachusetts, may their efforts succeedArgylle director shuts down the T Swift conspiracy theoryBarnes & Noble to open 50 new stores this yearLA Public Library acquires indie publisherBeautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca check in on the Hot 50, their running list of the biggest/buzziest/most acclaimed books in the zeitgeist. Join us on Patreon for access to ad-free listening and premium content: https://www.patreon.com/bookriotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca try to power rank the top books of 2019. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!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.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Discussed in this episode:Sign up for Better Living Through Books and the BR Pod newsletterFirst Edition!The Book Riot Podcast PatreonJeff's List: 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!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.Discussed in this episode:Sign up for Better Living Through Books and the BR Pod newsletterFirst Edition!The Book Riot Podcast PatreonBook Riot contributors’ most anticipated books of 2024This might be the reason Oprah wanted to sell a lot of copies of Covenant of WaterOpen AI says it can’t train LLMs without copyright materialFlorida county bans the dictionary Swifties fuel another literary conspiracy theoryKeanu Reeves collabs on sci-fi novel with China MiévilleGoodreads members’ 76 most popular books of the last decade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!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.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Discussed in this episode:First Edition!The Book Riot Podcast PatreonRead Harder 2024 is alive! Reading Genesis by Marilynne RobinsonThe Bloodied Nightgown by Joan AcocellaUntil August by Gabriel García MárquezThis Strange Eventful History by Claire MessudThe Unicorn Woman by Gayl JonesThe Z Word by Lindsay King-MillerState of Paradise by Laura Van Den BurgA Chance Meeting by Rachel CohenThe Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting by Lee GutkindThe Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia AlvarezWandering Stars by Tommy OrangeAnita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl GonzalezSplinters by Leslie JamisonThe Last Fire Season by Manjula MartinThe Ministry of Time by Kaliane BradleyCorey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel WaidnerLegacy by Uché BlackstockBeautyland by Marie-Helene BertinoPraisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal WilkinsonThe Other Significant Others by Rhaina CohenActs of Forgiveness by Maura CheeksThis American Ex-Wife by Lyz LenzSupercommunicators by Charles DuhiggOptimal by Daniel Goleman & Cary ChernissAnd How Does That Make You Feel by Joshua FletcherLies and Weddings by Kevin KwanThe Cliffs by Scott CawthornLooking for a Sign by Susie DumondJewel Me Twice by Charish ReidThe American Daughters by Maurice Carlos RuffinFor a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinksy talk about Obama's favorite books of 2023, Iowa book banning law, best-selling books of 2023, winter reading, an exclusive excerpt of 'The Waters' by Bonnie Jo Campbell, ineffective strategy of Republicans, rise of Richard Osman's books, potential adaptation of 'Court of Thorns and Roses' on Hulu, and more.