Book Riot - The Podcast

This week, Jeff and Rebecca look back at the notable bookish stories of the year.   This episode is sponsored by: Reckless: The Petrified Flesh by Cornelia Funke Bookaxe Podkin One-Ear by Kiernan Larwood   Links discussed in this episode: JRR Tolkien’s son resigns as director of estate Indigo plans to enter US market New Barnes & Noble concept store w/ restaurant opens in Plano, TX Audible lets romance readers skip to the good parts Most deserved million-dollar book deal: Colin Kaepernick When the chickens come home to roost: UNH gets raked for spending librarian’s donation on stadium sign The story that just won’t die about the YA book that bought its way onto the NYT list Turkey of the Year, redux: NYT’s debut romance coverage New York times awkwardly covers romance for the first time Terry Pratchett’s unfinished works destroyed by steamroller, per his wishes Readers’ Rights story that didn’t actually become a thing: TSA canceling pilot of procedures requiring passengers to remove books from carry-on for screening Most surprising team-up: Bill Clinton working on novel w/ Jimmy P Lorin Stein resigning from Paris Review for sexual misconduct See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jeff and Rebecca finish up holiday recommendation requests and share some long-overdue listener feedback.   This episode is sponsored by: Casper Reckless: The Petrified Flesh by Cornelia Funke OwlCrate Jr.   Books recommended in this episode: I Contain Multitudes by Ed Young Incarceration Nations Who Thought This Would Be a Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth Wangs vs the World by Jade Chang Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hours Bookstore by Robin Sloan Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler, Alibis by André Aciman Unbound by Steph Jagger Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole The Force by Don Winslow   IQ by Joe Ide What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky Children of the New World The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss  Sorceror to the Crown by Zen Cho Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series Roomies by Christina Lauren Beverly Jenkins The Wars of the Roses series by Conn Iggulen How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman Madhur Jaffrey’s World Vegetarian See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca wrap up their 2017 Holiday recommendations.   This episode is sponsored by: TryAudiobooks.com Reckless: The Petrified Flesh by Cornelia Funke   Books recommended in this episode: Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway I Am Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas From the Hips by Rebecca Odes Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes Joy On Demand The Uterus is a Feature, not a Bug by Sarah Lacy The Startup Way by Eric Ries Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell Beloved by Toni Morrison  Hunger by Roxane gay Night Comes to the Cumberlands by Henry Caudil An Untamed State by Roxane Gay Ramp Hollow by Steven Stoll You Had Me at Woof Afterglow by Eileen Myles Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel by Firoozah Dumas The First Rule of Punk by Celia Perez From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsberg The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser Alive Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Martian by Andy Weir The Dog Stars by Peter Heller Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling Complications by Atul Gawande You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie An Adoption Story by Marianne Richmond The White Swan Express: a story about adoption by Jean Davies Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale by Karen Katz Burning Bright: Four Chanukah Love Stories The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng The Turner House by Angela Flourney Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca kick off this year's holiday recommendation extravaganza... This episode is sponsored by: Men & Dogs Penguin Random House Audio   Books recommended in this episode: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown What If by Randall Munroe Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat and Wendy McNaughton The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern History of the World in Six Cups by Tom Standige Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books The Fate of the West by Bill Emmott, No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-nehisi Coates Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit Wisdom of Sundays by Oprah Winfrey When Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Yoga Bodies by Laura Lipton and Jamie Beard Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan The Changeling by Victor Lavalle Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughn Bec McMaster Psy Changeling by Nalini Singh The Woman Next Door by Yewende Omatoso Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman Liane Moriarty Negroland by Margo Jefferson A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah Out of Africa by Karen Blixen This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett In the Language of Miracles by Rajia Hassib Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri  Bright Lines by Tanwin Nadini Islam 2am at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helena Bertino One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jeff and Rebecca recap the National Book Awards, tackle a pair of grim publishing industry surveys, realize how little they know about Spanish-language publishing in the U.S., and much more.    This episode is sponsored by: Libby PRH Audio The Illustrated Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them   Links discussed in this episode:   National Book Award winners  Bilingual book about Selena is outselling everyone, including Harry Potter  PW’s 2017 salary survey shows publishing is still super white & the wage gap is huge  More than half of the respondents to a UK publishing industry survey report experiencing sexual harassment  California will be first state to require LGBTQ-inclusive history texts  JRR Tolkien’s son resigns as director of estate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Jeff and Rebecca mull Barnes & Noble's new concept stores opening, Pokemon go but for Harry Potter, a new entrant in the US bookstore market, and much more.    This episode is sponsored by: Renegades by Marissa Meyer The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl by Paige Mckenzie OwlCrate Links discussed in this episode: Amazon best books of the year  Indigo plans to enter US market  LORD OF THE RINGS series at amazon? Harry Potter AR game coming from makers of Pokemon Go  And all 8 HP movies coming to HBO in January  New Barnes & Noble concept store w/ restaurant opens in Plano, TX See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jeff and Rebecca nervously discuss a series adaptation of Invisible Man, survey the 2017 Goodreads Choice nominees, ponder Audible's new romance subscription, and much more.  This episode is sponsored by: Frankie by Shivaun Plozza Casper Our own $500 Bookstore giveaway   Links discussed in this episode: Follow-up: Comey memoir has a title and May 2018 release date  Hulu developing an adaptation of Invisible Man  Zadie Smith awarded the 2017 Langston Hughes Medal  Next Dragon Tattoo book will be Lagercrantz’s last  Voting opens for Goodreads Choice Awards  Audible developing tech to let romance fans “skip to the good parts” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jeff and Rebecca follow-up about Reading Rainbow beef, gripe about sales figures, mark the departure of a couple of gross dudes in books, and much more.  This episode is sponsored by: Ready Player One by Ernie Cline HelloFresh (use offer code bookriot30) Haven by Mary Lindsey Win 500 Bucks to spend at the bookstore of your choice!   Links discussed in this episode: Update: LeVar Burton no longer being sued over Reading Rainbow catchphrase  Colin Kaepernick gets $1million book deal  Talking numbers: new John Green helps lift sales 8% in early October. But really it's Dan Brown.  Gross Bill O’Reilly gets his ass dropped Gross Harvey Weinstein used book deals to buy silence Angela Flournoy developing an HBO show with Issa Rae  Hallmark is accepting submissions for romance & mystery novels See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jeff and Rebecca sink their teeth into the new VIDA numbers, quickly mention the 2017 Man Booker Prize announcement, roll around in some book sales data, and much more.    This episode is sponsored by: The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater Libby The Lost Causes by Etting & Schwartz   Links discussed in this episode: Win 500 Bucks to spend at the bookstore of your choice! George Saunders wins 2017 Man Booker Prize 2016 VIDA count  NYC libraries to forgive all children’s fines Riz Ahmed as Hamlet for Netflix!?  Mississippi school district pulls TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD from curriculum because it offends peopleFlorida school district bans all books with “profanity, cursing, or inappropriate subject matter”    Kickstarter for a queer feminist bookstore in Mississippi  Library of Congress begins Librarians in Residence pilot program See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Jeff and Rebecca follow-up about a long profile of the UNH librarian who gave the school $4MM, welcome waterproof Kindles, celebrate literary Macarthur winners, and much more.    This episode is sponsored by: Quackery by Kang & Pederson The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater Forest of a Thousand Laterns by Julie C. Dao   Links discussed in this episode: Follow-up on the librarian who left $4 million to UNH and now it’s funding football  The results of the Ripped Bodice study on diversity in romance are...very bad Jesmyn Ward & Viet Thanh Nguyen win Macarthur Genius grants Hachette Book Group terminates Weinstein imprint  Amazon finally introduces a waterproof Kindle AmazonCrossing goes multilingual Another shifted-perspective 50 Shades book is coming in November  New York times awkwardly covers romance for the first time See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices