Book Riot - The Podcast

With Rebecca out, Liberty Hardy joins Jeff on the occasion of the 500th episode of All the Books! They talk about being book podcasters and a host of other reading-related topics.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky.Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter.A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder.Discussed in this episode:All The Books!Liberty Hardy on InstagramCome See us live at Powell’s on March 13thThe Book Riot Podcast PatreonThe Book Riot Podcast NewsletterThe Book Riot Podcast on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca run though the nominees for the 2025 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and assign each of them a win probability. Please do not bet on these.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky.Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter.A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder.Discussed in this Episode:Come See us live at Powell’s on March 13thThe Book Riot Podcast PatreonThe Book Riot Podcast NewsletterThe Book Riot Podcast on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca digest a bunch of high-profile adaptation news which leads them to wonder about the prospects of a big-budget romantasy series ever coming to screens, some news around book bannings and censorship, talk about recent reading, and more.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky.Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter.A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commissionDiscussed in this Episode:Come See us live at Powell's on March 13thThe Book Riot Podcast PatreonThe Book Riot Podcast NewsletterThe Book Riot Podcast on InstagramHulu cans the ACOTAR adaptationSTARZ to adapt All FoursMatt! Damon! Is! Odysseus! Nimona creator N.D. Stevenson announces new bookLA Times Book Prize finalists Indiana cuts Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library from budgetIowa rushes to advance a bill that would criminalize librarianshipTalk to Me by Rich BenjaminStone Yard Devotional by Charlotte WoodSoft Core by Brittany NewellCalling InBack After This by Linda Holmes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk about authors they think would most benefit from (or they would just personally like to see have) a signal adaptation.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky.Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter.A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder.Discussed in this Episode:The Book Riot Podcast PatreonThe Book Riot Podcast NewsletterThe Book Riot Podcast on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a preview of our Patreon-only discussion of Shigehiro Oishi's Life in Three Dimensions.Listen to the rest by becoming a member of The Book Riot Podcast Patreon.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First up, Jeff offers his remembrances of reading Tom Robbins. Then, Jeff and Rebecca talk about the hardcover dominance of the Big 5, the first landmark AI fair use case, recent reading, and more.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky.Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter.A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder.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 PatreonThe Book Riot Podcast NewsletterThe Book Riot Podcast on InstagramR.I.P. Tom RobbinsThomson Reuters wins first big AI copyright case in the USBig Five retained hold on hardcover bestsellers in 2024 (let’s talk about some highlights from the print edition too)Laura McGrath dives into publishing’s diversity dataBarbara Kinsolver funds rehab center with profits from Demon CopperheadMargaret Atwood to publish memoir “of sorts” this fallTurns out graphic novels are good for kids’ reading habitsJohn Lithgow to play Dumbledore in HBO Harry Potter seriesSendak/King team-upStone Yard Devotional by Charlotte WoodOn TyrannyBibliophobia by Sarah ChihayaHow to Share an Egg by Bonny ReichartRaising Hare by Chloe Dalton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca are joined by romance expert Jessica Pryde to talk about romantasy, current trends in romance, category romance, navigating commercial romance covers, and much more.Jessica co-hosts Book Riot's When in Romance. You can also find her exclamations about books and internet ridiculousness on BlueSky (JessIsReading) and instagram/threads (jess_is_reading).Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky.Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter.A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder.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 PatreonJennifer RobersonThat Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly LemmingLights Out by Navessa AllenThe Kiss Countdown by Etta EastonI Think I Like "Cozy" Dark Romance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff is back with his quarterly pile of recent book deal announcements to bounce off Rebecca. One of our favorite recurring episodes.To listen to the whole thing, check out the Book Riot Podcast Patreon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca spend more time than they would like in legal-land before talking about how everybody hates blurbs, recent reading, and other book news. Then, Brenna Connor of Circana joins Jeff to talk about 2024 book sales highlights and lowlights before looking ahead to 2025.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky.Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter.A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder.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 PatreonFirst EditionShout-out to Feedspot for featuring us as #5 in the top 100 book podcasts on the planetScarlett Pavlovich sues Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer for rape & human trafficking and Netflix adaptation of Sandman to end after second seasonMan accused of attacking Salman Rushdie to go to trialBig 5 and Authors Guild sue Idaho over book banning lawSimon & Schuster’s flagship imprint won’t require blurbs and Rebecca Makkai essay in the NYTDystopian novels are on the rise again after the inaugurationOn the Hippie TrailThe Loves of My LifeLife in Three DimensionsTiltBibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca consider ten contenders to be the It Book of the Month.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky.Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter.A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder.Discussed in this Episode:The Book Riot Podcast PatreonFirst Edition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices