Jeff and Rebecca look back 30 years to 1994 and power-rank the year's most influential, important, and memorable titles. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Send us your recommendation requests: podcast (at) bookriot (dot) co Learn more about your ad...
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr
Jeff and Rebecca talk about Amazon's best books of the year list, the pros and cons of the Goodreads Choice Awards, PW's annual salary survey, recent reading, and much more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this epis...
Nov 18, 2024•54 min
We consider The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year list to be the book list of record. In this episode, we make our picks for locks, likelies, and would-like-to-sees ahead of the anticipated release of the list next week. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, w...
Nov 13, 2024•50 min
Rebecca Schinksy talks to Franklin Leonard and Randy Winston about The Black List, a project to get exceptional, unproduced work into the world. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Black List The Book ...
Nov 11, 2024•48 min
Jeff and Rebecca decide the It Book of November. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! 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 Patreon Variation by Rebecca Yarros Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik The Name of This Band is R.E.M ...
Nov 06, 2024•40 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about B&N's finalists for their book of the year, why PW's best books of the year lists are so great and recent reading before they are joined by Brooke Nagler of The Book Group to talk about what it's like breaking into the world of books as an assistant to a literary agent. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This co...
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Jeff offers Rebecca a list of questions about the world of books and reading that he would love to have answered but knows are impossible. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 30, 2024•59 min
Sharifah Williams joins Jeff to talk about B&N's Best Books of the Year list, promising trailers, PRH's new boilerplate AI language, and more of the week's top book news. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commiss...
Oct 28, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Jeff and Rebecca head down to the literary trading floor and evaluate their portfolio to determine which authors to buy, sell, or hold. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 23, 2024•55 min
Jeff and Rebecca mark the beginning of what should be a busy awards season for James, talk about Taylor Swift's notable book release strategy, get ready for TikTok to publish print titles, and mull more of the week's book news. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you ...
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about a shared favorite movie, 1989's When Harry Met Sally. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr
Jeff and Sharifah talk about Han Kang's Nobel win, the twenty-thousands serious and dedicated readers of literary fiction, a Book It! Program misdirect, and more news of the week. Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Discussed in this episode: The 50 U.S. Writers That Could Win the Nobel. Someday. My Life in Bookshelves Company to help authors license their work to AI companies What good is great literature? New goodreads competitor 20,000 reade...
Oct 14, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Jeff and Rebecca go through Jeff's recent piece, The 10 Most Interesting Questions in the World of Books and Reading? Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The 10 Most Interesti...
Oct 09, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Jeff and Rebecca digest the finalists for the 2024 National Book Award in fiction, envy and admire MacArthur winners, get pumped for The Corrections on TV, and think about Reese's thriller. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Discussed in this episode: This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through...
Oct 07, 2024•56 min
Jeff and Rebecca consider 10 books and crown one of them the It Book of the Month. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Message The Mighty Red Slaveroad The Bog Wife The Bo...
Oct 02, 2024•57 min
Jeff and Rebecca digest the five finalists for the 2024 Booker Prize, talk about some upcoming literary adaptations, developments in the world of book banning and censorship, and hit some recent reading. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links,...
Sep 30, 2024•51 min
Jeff and Rebecca share half-baked brainstorms about ways to make life better. Join us on Patreon for access to early, ad-free listening and all bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/bookriotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 27, 2024•6 min
Jeff and Rebecca debut a new format, "Is It Good?," with the most-hyped book of the fall: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: Intermezzo by Sally R...
Sep 25, 2024•59 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk about their time in New York last week, recount some recent reading, and then Rebecca talks with Amanda Litman from Run for Something. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed...
Sep 23, 2024•58 min
Jeff and Rebecca turn the time-machine dial to "2004" to pick the 10 books from that year that mattered the most. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: Gilead The Plot Against A...
Sep 18, 2024•1 hr 1 min
This week, Jeff and Rebecca discuss the 10 selections for The National Book Awards Fiction Longlist along with their mostly wrong guesses, Good Omens production pauses amid the accusations against Neil Gaiman, Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake, and an author interview chestnut we would like to see roasted, once and for all. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page...
Sep 16, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Jeff and Rebecca preview the always-busy fall adaptation slate, after paying respects to James Earl Jones as he fades into the cornfield. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 12, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Jeff and Rebecca mull NaNoWriMo's AI blunder, note the passing of Len Riggio, talk about recent reading, and much more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Discussed in this episode: Big Five Publishing & Authors Guild Sue Over New Florida Book Banning Law NaNoWriMo maybe blew itself up over AI statement? Disne...
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 22 min
Jeff and Rebecca talk through 10 contenders for the "It" book of September. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: Creation Lake The Life Impossible Colored Television Lovely One...
Sep 04, 2024•49 min
Rebecca and Jeff compete to draft the best collection of 10 new releases for the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 30, 2024•11 min
Jeff and Rebecca embark upon a fool's errand: trying to guess the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 28, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Jeff and Rebecca are back to talk about Obama's summer reading list, what is new and what isn't in a New York Times article about recent publishing layoffs, the state of LLM legal disputes, and more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commissi...
Aug 26, 2024•1 hr 9 min
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the theatrical release of The Shawshank Redemption, here is our Book Nerd Movie Club episode about the novella and film. A classic. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Vanessa joins Jeff to stare slack-jawed at a list of the best-selling books from the last five decades in the UK, talk about recent book-banning news, wince at some PR pack-ins, and more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon The 100 bestselling books of the past 50 years High school sh...
Aug 19, 2024•49 min
Rebecca is joined by Book Riot's intrepid managing editor Vanessa Diaz for a conversation about the new adaptation of Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us, starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Join us on Patreon for access to early, ad-free listening and bonus content. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affil...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr 1 min
