Book Riot - The Podcast

This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about the new head of the ABA starting the gig, Crawdads with a triple crown, more talk about returning Audible credits, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: The Novel Gazing Podcast Flatiron Books, Publisher of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Love Her or Lose Her by Tessa Bailey, published by Avon Books Book Riot Insiders Links discussed in this episode: Crawdads won the triple crown of sales in 2019 Follow-up: Audible & publishers have settled the suit over captions Follow-up: Loudon County officials vote to keep protested LGBTQ books in schools Record number of library systems top 1 million digital checkouts in 2019 Game of Thrones spin-off coming in 2022 Hero of the week: St Louis teen starts book subscription service for black boys See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca discuss the best-selling books of 2019, Obama's 2019 reading recs, the RWA meltdown, and more. This episode is sponsored by: Libro.fm The Read Harder Challenge Book Riot Insiders Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict Links discussed in this episode: RIP Sonny Mehta Bestsellers of 2019 Obama’s favorite books of 2019...and they were finally not just on FB The RWA has a racism problem Romance Writers problem matters because people are watching The Implosion of the RWA Avon & Harlequin pull out of RWA in response:  https://twitter.com/avonbooks/status/1214925842830299136?s=20 https://twitter.com/sparkjoyromance/status/1214931763409117185?s=20 Book Culture update See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca are joined by Amanda Nelson to pick the books the defined the 2010s. This episode is sponsored by: Spalding University The Severed Moon by Leigh Bardugo The Read Harder Journal Books discussed in this episode: 50 Shades of Grey by EL James Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Becoming by Michelle Obama/Fear by Bob Woodward The Testaments by Margaret Atwood The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg Wild by Cheryl Strayed the Elena Ferrante quartet (My Brilliant Friend) Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas The Martian by Andy Weir The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes Becoming by Michelle Obama The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur Dogman Volume #1 by Dave Pilkey The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo Hunger by Roxane Gay See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca look back that the stories that made 2019 in books and reading. Plus, some of their favorite non-book things of the years. This episode is sponsored by: Book Riot’s YA Instagram The Read Harder Journal Sips by Libro.fm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the Goodreads Choice Winners, Bill Gates' recommended books for 2019, more wrong-headed prison books news, and more. This episode is sponsored by: Sips by The Read Harder Journal Switched On Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding Book Riot's YA Instagram Links discussed in this episode: Fresh round of resignations at the Nobel Prize for Lit Goodreads winners The Critics Version Amazon charts of 2019 Bill Gates’s End-of-Year book list West Virginia will charge prisoners by the minute to read ebooks And Kansas still unfairly bans books in prisons Audiobooks predicted to overtake ebooks in UK See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca wrap up their annual Holiday Recommendation show. This episode is sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi Book Riot's Read Harder 2020 Challenge Books and authors recommended in this episode: Marge Piercy Mary Oliver Elizabeth Bishop  Top Gun by Dan Pedersen The Warmth of Other Suns by Isbell Wilkerson Building Stories, Salt Fat Acid Heat,  Saga Compendium 1 Monstress Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan All You Can Ever Know 2am at the Cats Pajamas,  The Little Bookstore at Big Stone Gap Different Seasons Last Woman Standing My Sister the Serial Killer The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz, A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas Dan Brown!?! Nature Fix, Braiding Sweetgrass On Trails Preparing the Ghost One Giant Leap by Charles Fishman The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong Vegan for Everybody Oh She Glows Afro-Vegan Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway NINTH HOUSE by Leigh Bardugo CITY OF BRASS by SA Chakraboty Folk of the Air series by Holly Black City of Girls Rich & Pretty HOW TO BAKE EVERYTHING by Mark Bittman  Sister Pie Small Victories Dining In HOW TO and WHAT IF by Randall Munroe  The $64 Tomato by Bill Alexander A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle Shop Class as Soulcraft Heritage by Sean Brock, Best Cook in the World, Buttermilk Graffiti From Scratch by Tembi Locke   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca tackle the first batch of listener recommendation requests for the 2020 holiday season. This episode is sponsored by: Opus X One - Obsidian Detective by Michael Anderle Bibliostyle by Nina Freudenberger Feminist Book Club Box + Podcast The Great Courses Plus She Said So You Want to Talk About Race Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer We Are Okay by Nina LaCour Dear Madam President Wolfpack by Abby Wambach Power of Meaning Bored & Brilliant The Adventurer’s Son Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel The Master Plan by Chris Wilson Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom by David Blight Hourglass by Dani Shapiro How to Be Married Mating in Captivity Marriageology by Belinda Luscombe The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind Hammerhead by Nina Maclaughlin Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee Best American Food Writing 2019 Taste of Country Cooking Notes of a Young Black Chef by Kuame Onuawachi Burn the Place by Iliana Ragan Storied Life of AJ Fikry 84 Charing Cross Road Shadow of the Wind Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Jasmine Guillory Alyssa Cole Helen Hoang Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Most Fun We Ever Had The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Beyond the Bedroom Wall by Larry Woiwode Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill The Mothers by Brit Bennett Perfect Little World Celeste Ng Daisy Jones & The Six Go Like Hell by AJ Baimie How to Build a Car by Adrian Newey What It Is Like to Go To War by Karl Marlantes See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the National Book Awards, more about the terrible Nobel year, some adaptation news, and more. This episode is sponsored by: The Read Harder Journal American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Sips By Links discussed in this episode: Holy bad looks, Batman: Nobel jurors gave prize to Handke after falling for a conspiracy theory 2019 National Book Awards Announced Author responds after West Virginia library removes LGBT book from shelves And locals are upset b/c the decision has been delayed Memphis Public Libraries joins the overdue fines cancellation trend We have a Daisy Jones! Lord of the Rings series at Amazon already greenlit for Season 2 David! Chang! Memoir! 2019 Publishing Salary Survey See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk BN getting on the award train, Amazon releases its best books of the year list, and a weird amount of action in Virginia. This episode is sponsored by: Imaginary Friend by Stephen Cbhosky Eye for Eye by J.K. Franko The Read Harder Journal Links discussed in this episode: Virginia libraries join Macmillan ebook boycott Amazon’s best books of the year list is out, and it is wrong Barnes & Noble introduces Book of the Year Award And a redesigned Barnes & Noble store in Virginia Beach is book-focused Angry parents protest LGBTQ books in Loudon County, Virginia classroom libraries See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca discuss three big new TV adaptions: His Dark Materials (HBO), Watchmen (HBO), and Dickinson (Apple TV+). This episode is sponsored by: Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices