Book Riot - The Podcast

Jeff and Rebecca debrief a little about their live recording at Powell's last week before talking about Meta Streisanding itself, the exciting/scary news of Scorsese's for actual life Gilead adaptation, and more of the week's book news.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.Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations who have recommended over 160,000 books to readers of all kinds. Let TBR match you with your next favorite read! Get started for only $18 at mytbr.co!Discussed in this episode:Scorcese! Adapts! Gilead! Series!Austin Butler & Saoirse Ronan to star in Deep Cuts adaptationMoms for Liberty is shutting down BookLooks Former Meta executive ordered to halt promotion of tell-all bookSpotify launches program to publish audiobooks for independent authorsWNDB announces first We Need Diverse Books Day April 3Careless PeopleWhite Light by Jack LohmannWe Tell Ourselves Stories by Alissa WilkinsonThe 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 talk about The Antidote by Karen Russell.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.Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations who have recommended over 160,000 books to readers of all kinds. Let TBR match you with your next favorite read! Get started for only $18 at mytbr.co!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 Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff fills Rebecca on his recent trip to New York for publishing meetings before they talk about the newly announced Harper Lee collection and other items of note.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.Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations who have recommended over 160,000 books to readers of all kinds. Let TBR match you with your next favorite read! Get started for only $18 at mytbr.co!This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Discussed in this Episode:Come See us live at Powell’s on March 13thHear us on Books with BetsyNew collection of Harper Lee’s previously unpublished short stories coming this fallThis day-in-the-life of an audiobook narrator is great (and they get paid by the finished hour - does this apply to Meryl Streep?)Kathryn Stockett’s first novel since The Help is coming this fallDeep CutsThe Dream HotelSucker PunchThe River Has RootsIngrainedThe 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 get ready for Spring with March's It Book Knockout Round.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.Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations who have recommended over 160,000 books to readers of all kinds. Let TBR match you with your next favorite read! Get started for only $18 at mytbr.co!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

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