Book Riot - The Podcast

Jeff and Rebecca discuss the results of their summer preview draft, go through a bunch of listener feedback, talk about a cookbook being adapted for the screen, a huge study of bookselling patterns on Amazon, and more.Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!Discussed in this episode:We hiring a Digital Marketing ManagerThe Book Riot Podcast PatreonAustralian Cookbook To Be Adapted Into Feature FilmIngram followed 150k books on Amazon for 3 yearsDog Eared Books in Ames, Iowa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk about book sales, Amazon’s new book club, the bookstore of the year, recent reading, and more.Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Discussed in this episode:The Book Riot Podcast PatreonCongrats to The Raven! The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol AndersonAmazon starts monthly book club Post-Traumatic by Chantal JohnsonTranslating Myself & Other by Jhumpa LahiriTrillions by Robin Wigglesworth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're sharing a special preview of a podcast we've been enjoying, Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso, from Pushkin Industries. Talk Easy is a weekly interview podcast, where writer Sam Fragoso invites actors, writers, activists, and politicians to come to the table and speak from the heart in ways you probably haven't heard from them before. Driven by curiosity, he has revealing conversations with guests like Michael Lewis, Rupi Kaur, and Dave Eggers. In this preview, Sam talks to Jennifer Egan about the structural pulse of her new novel, The Candy House, why she’s drawn to nonlinear storytelling, and what the book reveals about authenticity in the digital age.You can hear the full episode, and more from Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso, at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/tebookriotegan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk about a striking attempt to sue Barnes & Noble for obscenity and pornography, admit we were wrong but for dumb reasons, talk about a hero of the week, and more.Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Discussed in this episode:The Book Riot Patreon!Klara & the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroVA Beach Barnes & Noble being sued over GenderQueer and A Court of Mist and Fury Now in book banning: conservative parents take aim at library apps If it sounds too good to be true…this company will pay you $200 for every book you finish Something you don’t see every day – expanded book coverage! The Dracula Daily newsletter is a fun thing Hero of the Week: teen upset about book bans starts forbidden book club The Book of Night by Holly BlackTrust by Hernan DiazFlying Solo by Linda HolmesTranslating Myself and Others by Jhumpa LahiriHow the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the 2022 Pulitzer Prizes, the reMarkable 2….tablet?, recent reading, and more.Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Discussed in this episode:The Book Riot Patreon!Pulitzer winners Is this a thing? Post-Traumatic by Chantal JohnsonOur Missing Hearts by Celeste NgDinner for One by Sutanya Dacres Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca take listener feedback, spend a few moments talking about Julia on HBO, look at real, honest-to-goodness BookTok numbers, and talk with Florence Williams about her book, Heartbreak. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Discussed in this episode:The Book Riot Patreon!Let’s talk about those BookTok numbers from publishers lunch — public link to the pod & infographic  So get a copy of Heartbreak using riot20 for 20% at pushkin.fm/heartbreak Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca turn with their annual spring recommendation show.Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.fDiscussed in this episode:The Book Riot Patreon2022 (!) 5 Under 35 HonoreesBook Riot Podcast Listener SurveyYou’re Not ListeningChecklist ManifestoLoonshotsOutsidersDanez SmithHanif AbdurraquibMorgan ParkerLouise GluckTime is a Mother by Ocean VuongSelected Poems of Nikki GiovanniPoets.orgThe Great CirclePretty Face by Lucy ParkerA Taste of Her Own Medicine by Tasha HarrisonThe Lost Apothecary by Sarah PennerGileadLila by Marilynne RobinsonWicked Fox by Kate ChoBooks for K-Drama Fans2am at the Cat’s PajamasCity of GirlsBlack CakeStoried Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle ZevinPachinkoThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel PieChronicles of St. Mary’s by Jodi TaylorThe Wheel of TimeI Came All This Way to Meet YouMy Glory Was I Had Such FriendsThe Ugly CryFierce AttachmentsThe Odd Woman in the City by Vivian GornickJoan is OkayCrooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo FordSilver Sparrow by Tayari JonesSag Harbor by Colson WhiteheadThe Cartographers by Peng ShepardThe Lincoln HighwayGreek to Me by Mary NorrisThe Moonflower Murders by Anthony HorowitzAutomatic Detective by A. Lee MartinezA Small Death in Lisbon by Robert WilsonLab GirlEntangled Life by Merlin SheldrakeThe Wild Iris by Louise GluckRadical CandorYou’re Not ListeningGritConscious BusinessGetting to YesFinancial IntelligenceTo The End of the Land by David Grossman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk about Barnes & Noble as publishing’s hero(!?), developments in the world of book banning, new initiatives to combat said banning, and more.Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Discussed in this episode:Book bans now reaching math textbooks in Florida California student’s petition to expand conversations about race in literature 5 Under 35 honoreesBrooklyn Public Library offers ecards to kids 13-21 as a move to provide access/resist book bans We Need Diverse Books To Offer Grants to Educators to Buy Books How Barnes & Noble went from villain to hero Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk 2022 book sales so far, Brandon Sanderson making it rain, dive into The Candy House by Jennifer Egan, and more.Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Discussed in this episode:Book Riot Podcast Patreon!Brandon Sanderson pays it forward Book sales boom is over? Documentary about The Bookstore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the new Book Riot Podcast Patreon, solicit recommendation requests for Moms/Dads/Grads episode, somehow spin out again about audiobook pricing, look at the most banned books of 2021, and much more.Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher.For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter!This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Discussed in this episode:Book Riot Podcast Patreon!Station Eleven team reuniting at HBO for Glass Hotel & Sea of Tranquility We probably have to say something about the Amazon union success The NYT looks at some of the most-banned books of 2021 B&N goes audiobook membership The Cartographers by Peng ShepardSecret Identity by Alex SeguraThe Kaiju Preservation Society by John ScalziPay Up by Reshma SaujaniThe Candy House by Jennifer Egan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices