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Book Riot's Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinsky discuss the latest news in the world of books and reading, including hot new releases, adaptations, publishing industry events, and more.
Book Riot is the largest independent editorial book site in North America and home to a host of media, from podcasts to newsletters to original content, all designed around diverse readers and across all genres.
Obama's Favorite Books of 2023, Iowa Book Banning Law Partially Stopped, Recent Reading, and more.
Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinksy talk about Obama's favorite books of 2023, the best-selling books of 2023 in the U.S., some good news in Iowa, our winter reading, and more.
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2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up.
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Discussed in this episode:
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Read Harder 2024 is alive!
Barack’s best of 2023 list
Key parts of Iowa book ban bill cannot be enforced
Excerpt of The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell, the new “Read With Jenna” pick
Best-Selling UK Books of 2023
Temple Folk
North Woods
Absolution
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57:2908/01/2024
The Winter 2024 New Release Draft [Teaser]
Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinsky compete to draft the best selection of 10 new and upcoming releases.
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02:3405/01/2024
January 2024 "It Book" Knockout Round
Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinsky choose the "it book" of January 2024 from a roster of 10 finalists.
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2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up.
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TBR!
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Read Harder 2024 is alive!
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn
The Showman by Simon Shuster
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
Sanctuary of the Shadow by Aurora Ascher
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
Beautyland by Marie-Helen Bertino
The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake
House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas
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45:1403/01/2024
The Best of the Rest 2023 [Teaser]
Jeff and Rebecca share the movies, TV, podcasts, and other non-book highlights of the year.
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03:3619/12/2023
The Year in Review
Jeff and Rebecca look at the most important, memorable, strangest, and all and all most superlative stories from the year in books and reading.
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Discussed in this episode:
TBR!
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Read Harder 2024 is alive!
Good job, book people: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store gets all the love; Paul Harding does not win awards for the book Jeff called “gormless”
Bad job, book people: The Vaster Wilds & Let Us Descend are under-celebrated
Love to See It: Pultizers expand eligibility
Audiobook moments of the year: Michelle Williams narrating Britney’s memoir; Leslie Jones’s 17-hour-long freestyle; Spotify introduces free listening for Premium members
Worst publisher response to book bans: Scholastic’s whole diversity collection situation
Best publisher response to book bans: PRH takes legal action against book banning states
Achievements in Reporting: The Atlantic’s coverage of the Books 3 data set used to train LLMs
More of These Conversations: The bestseller lists are broken and Goodreads is bad for books
Biggest Mystery: WTF Oprah was up to with Covenant of Water
Still Waiting to See Its Impact: Simon & Schuster sold to KKR, TikTok plans a publishing imprint
Eyeballs Emoji: The BookTok hockey romance shenanigans, Bigolas Dickolas moves some units, Review Bombing Author
Nobody Asked for This: Twilight series coming to TV; HBO plans 10-year run for Harry Potter reboot
Anticlimactic: Manuscript thief pleads guilty
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56:0218/12/2023
Bonus: The Books We Missed This Year [Teaser]
Jeff and Rebecca run through the books they had their eyes on but didn't quite get to this year.
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02:3612/12/2023
Wrapping Up Holiday Recommendation Requests & Our Most Giftable Books of the Year
Jeff and Rebecca handle a few last recommendation requests and then give some ideas for generally giftable books for 2023.
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Discussed in this episode:
TBR!
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Taste by Stanley Tucci
Walking with Sam by Andrew McCarthy
Oh My Mother! by Connie Wang
Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
From Scratch by Tembi Locke
How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh
The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
Wild Girls by Tiya Miles
Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing by John Gierach
Hidden Mountains by Michael Wejchert
Ross Gay
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters of Note by Shaun Usher (volumes on Art and Love)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
World of Wonders by Johanna Basford
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars by Kate Greene
Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh
From Hollywood with Love by Scott Meslow
Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker
Airplane Mode by Shahnaz Habib
Sigrid Nunez
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Blackouts by Justin Torres
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
The Wager by David Grann
The Book of (More) Delights by Ross Gay
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57:1311/12/2023
Bonus: Our Favorite Books of 2023 [Teaser]
Rebecca and Jeff run down their favorite books of 2023 and a few highlights from backlist reading.
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03:0705/12/2023
Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 2
Jeff and Rebecca wrap up their annual holiday recommendation extravaganza.
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TBR!
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Greek Lessons by Han Kang
Possession by A.S. Byatt
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
How Strange a Season by Megan Mayhew Bergman
The Miniature Wife by Manuel Gonzales
Music for Wartime by Rebecca Makkai
The Vanderbeekers series by Karina Yan Glaser
Meet Yasmin! by Saadia Faruqi
Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty
Forward by Abby Wambach
One Life by Megan Rapinoe
Uphill by Jemele Hill
The Rivals by Johnette Howard
The Orchard by Adele Crockett Robertson
2 A.M. at the Cats Pajamas by Marie-Helen Bertino
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
Chemistry by Weike Wang
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
Post Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson
The Guest by Emma Cline
Instead by Maria Coffey
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
If We’re Being Honest by Cat Shook
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Wake, Siren by Nina MacLaughlin
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Babel by R.F. Kuang
The Real Work by Adam Gopnik
The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland
How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi
The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Pretty One by Keah Brown
Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
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01:01:4004/12/2023
2023 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1
Jeff and Rebecca respond to listener book recommendation requests.
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TBR!
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks
Together by Vivek H. Murthy
The Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen
LitHub’s list of Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels
Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
Joan is Okay by Weike Wang
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Me (Moth) by Amber McBride
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Snacking Bakes by Yossy Arefi
The King Arthur Baking School by King Arthur Baking Company
How to Bake Everything by Mark Bittman
No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol
Women Without Kids by Ruby Warrington
Self, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed edited by Meghan Daum
Regretting Motherhood by Orna Donath
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Erasure by Percival Everett
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
There’s a Book Riot list for that!
The Hike by Drew Magary
The Last Final Girls by Stephen Graham Jones
Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan
Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Good Life by Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester
The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Celeste Ng
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
"15 LGBTQ Haunted Horror Novels"
"8 of the Best Queer Horror Books"
"Great New Queer Horror To Read This Fall"
Queer Comics Database is a thing and has a list for this!
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
Andy Weir
Michael Lewis
S.A. Cosby
In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
The Guide by Peter Heller
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraquib
Cultish by Amanda Montell
Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar
Empire of the Sum by Keith Houston
The Mysterious Case of Rudolph Diesel by Douglas Brunt
Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt
How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez
The Barbarian Nurseries by Héctor Tobar
The Searcher by Tana French
The collected Patrick O’Brien on audio
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
NK Jemisin
Pico Iyer
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01:04:1727/11/2023
The Prepositional Phrase After Trickle
Jeff and Rebecca talk Amazon's best books of the year, The National Book Award winners, Goodreads Choice Award nominees, and much more.
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It's happening, readers — we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you hate carrying around bulky hardcovers, you're on a budget, you want a wider range of recommendations, or all of the above, you can now get a paperback subscription from TBR, curated just for you by one of our Bibliologists. You can also gift it (and the holidays, they are coming). Get all the details at mytbr.co.
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Discussed in this episode:
TBR!
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Book Riot’s Best Books of 2023
Rebecca’s victory lap for the Barnes & Noble Book of the Year
A sigh of relief for Jeff, Paul Harding did not win the NBA
And Amazon editors agree - their best books of 2023
Goodreads Choice Awards kick off
Data Baby by Susannah Breslin
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
Everything I Learned I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin
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01:03:5920/11/2023
Inclusive Insider Baseball
Jeff and Rebecca talk about Barnes & Noble's finalists for Book of the Year, a treasure trove of literary awards data, the stunning catalog of audiobooks from Spotify, and more.
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It's happening, readers — we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you hate carrying around bulky hardcovers, you're on a budget, you want a wider range of recommendations, or all of the above, you can now get a paperback subscription from TBR, curated just for you by one of our Bibliologists. You can also gift it (and the holidays, they are coming). Get all the details at mytbr.co.
Discussed in this Episode:
TBR!
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Finalists for Barnes & Noble Book of the Year
WNDB launches Indigenous Reads Rising
35 years of National Book Awards data
A Look at audiobook economics
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01:04:1013/11/2023
Pop Diva Rumspringa
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the sales numbers for The Woman in Me, PW's best books of the year list, the Fourth Wing adaptation announcement, and more.
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It's happening, readers — we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you hate carrying around bulky hardcovers, you're on a budget, you want a wider range of recommendations, or all of the above, you can now get a paperback subscription from TBR, curated just for you by one of our Bibliologists. You can also gift it (and the holidays, they are coming). Get all the details at mytbr.co.
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Discussed in this episode:
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Britney sales numbers
PW’s best books of 2023
There’s a Fourth Wing adaptation coming
Highlights of a couple new studies about Americans’ reading habits
Barnes & Noble Discover Prize goes to The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
12 Things Rebecca Learned in 12 Years of Book Riot
Blackouts by Justin Torres
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
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55:4906/11/2023
Speaking of Therapy
Rebecca and Jenn Northington discuss Scholastic's decision to walk back the plan to silo diverse books, BookTok's takedown of a Taylor-Travis fanfic, and more. Then Rebecca is joined by Kelly Jensen for a conversation about Britney Spears's new memoir, The Woman in Me.
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Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes!
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Links Discussed in the Episode:
Michelle Williams impersonates Justin Timberlake in Britney Spears’s memoir
Nailed it: Oprah selects Let Us Descend for final book club of 2023
Update: Scholastic walks back separate diversity collection
YA author opens bookstore dedicated to banned books & marginalized authors
BookTok takes down a Tayvis romance
How much should books cost?
"Purge the Poison" by Marina
A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard
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01:12:5930/10/2023
The Starving Caterpillar
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the celebrity memoir boomlet, Levar Burton hosting the National Book Awards, renovating Barnes & Noble, Scholastic separating LBGTQ+ and other marginalized books, the Lessons in Chemistry adaptation, and more.
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Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes!
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Discussed in this episode:
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
RIP Louise Glück
Update: Michelle Williams is the support narrator for Britney’s memoir
Update: LeVar Burton to host NBA ceremony
Scholastic confirms option to withhold LGBTQ+ titles from book fairs
Barnes & Noble’s new looks seem to be paying off
That American Fiction trailer tho
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
Blackouts by Justin Torres
MCU
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
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01:06:0523/10/2023
Mental Tattoos. They're Called Memories.
Jeff and Rebecca discuss listener feedback about Spotify audiobooks & the mystery Nov 7th Red Tower release, several interesting book announcements, recent reading, and more.
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Autumn is here, which means it’s time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it’s romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes!
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Discussed in this episode:
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
UK authors union demands info about Spotify’s audiobook licensing
Salman Rushdie memoir about stabbing
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
Company by Shannon Sanders
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
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45:5216/10/2023
Saying Goodbye to Louise Glück
American poet and 2020 Nobel Laureate Louise Glück has passed away. She was something of a house favorite here, so we thought we'd share a rebroadcast of the time Jeff and Rebecca talked about the life and work of Louise Glück, plus an extended discussion of her 1993 poem, “Vespers.” RIP, Louise Glück, we are so grateful for your work and your life.
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Discussed in this episode:
The Collected Poems of Louise Glück
“The Body Artist” by Dan Chiasson
“Vespers” by Louise Glück
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01:07:0613/10/2023
The Most Impossible Single Task of Literary Discernment
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the honoree of the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature, the National Book Award finalists, free audiobooks coming to Spotify subscribers, and more.
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Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes!
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Discussed in this episode:
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Nobel winner Jon Fosse
NBA finalists
Spotify to make audiobooks free for premium users
Leave the World Behind trailer
Making It So by Patrick Stewart
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
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54:0009/10/2023
A New Thing Under the Sun
Jeff and Rebecca talk about Book3 (and reactions to it), a survey about what libraries think of book bans, the U.S. suing Amazon, and more.
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Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes!
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Discussed in this episode:
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Results of the parent perceptions survey BR partnered on with EveryLibrary
The Atlantic got the data about the 183,000 books in Books3 AI training set
FTC sues Amazon for unlawful monopoly
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
The Book of (More) Delights by Ross Gay
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
How to Fight Book Bans & Censorship
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01:17:5002/10/2023
Borrowed and Banned
As an extra for you this week, we are delighted to share the first episode of Borrowed and Banned, a new podcast made by our friends at the Brooklyn Public Library. This 7-episode limited series, hosted by Virginia Marshall and Adwoa Adusei, tells the story of America's ideological war with its bookshelves by talking with students on the frontlines, the librarians and teachers whose livelihoods are endangered when they speak up, and the writers whose books have become a political battleground.
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26:3729/09/2023
Homer Was On One
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the National Book Award for Fiction longlist, a bunch of red states leaving the American Library Association, a teacher getting fired for teaching The Diary of Anne Frank, and Oprah's next surprising book club pick.
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Book Riot’s editorial team is writing for casual and power readers alike over at The Deep Dive! During the month of September, all new free subscribers will be entered to win Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, plus 5 mystery books from The Deep Dive. To enter, simply start a free subscription to The Deep Dive. No payment method required!
Discussed in this episode:
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Deep Dive shout-out: The Bestseller List is Broken
Texas teacher fired after reading aloud from graphic novel of Anne Frank’s diary
Red states cut ties with ALA
Reading IT’S PERFECTLY NORMAL
Project Gutenberg releases 5,000 public domain audiobooks w/ AI narration
Bidding opens Tues 9/26, in the Authors for Voices of Color auction to support WNDB
Oprah’s next pick is also 600+ pages long, and she’s only giving it a month
National Book Award Longlist
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01:05:4525/09/2023
Time For Bed
Jeff and Rebecca talk about a bunch of recent reading, Drew Barrymore getting booted from the National Book Awards, and I guess that pretty much covers it.
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Book Riot's editorial team is writing for casual and power readers alike over at The Deep Dive! During the month of September, all new free subscribers will be entered to win Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, plus 5 mystery books from The Deep Dive. To enter, simply start a free subscription to The Deep Dive. No payment method required!
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Discussed in this episode:
First Edition!
First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack.
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Update: Pulitzer board amends citizenship requirements
Ongoing: More authors sue OpenAI
National Book Awards drops Drew Barrymore as host
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
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49:1018/09/2023
Nexuses of Attention
Jenn Northington joins Jeff to talk about book blurbs, book sales, and the fundamental tension of Goodreads.
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First Edition!
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The Conundrum of Blurbs
Goodreads is Terrible for Books: Why Can’t We All Quit It?
Wait, how many copies do most books sell?
Dictionary.com adds 566 New Words for 2023
Texas Judge Blocks Book Ban Law
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57:3411/09/2023
Do You Think the Books are Fine?
Jeff and Rebecca talk early 2023 prize lists, Jeff's trip to the UK, recent reading, and more.
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Listener feedback re: The Book of Hov.
Kirkus Prize finalists
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper
The Guest by Emma Cline
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire
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54:2603/09/2023
Guest Post: Modern Indie Bookselling with Josh Cook
Jeff and Rebecca are out this week, wrapping up the last bits of summer vacation, so we are dropping Jeff's recent interview on First Edition with Josh Cook into the feed.
On the occasion of his new book, The Art of Libromancy: Selling Books and Reading Books in the 21st Century, Josh Cook of Porter Square books joins Jeff for a conversation about modern indie bookselling.
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41:1628/08/2023
It's All Connected
Kelly Jensen joins Rebecca to discuss a bummer-fest of book banning news, some truly absurd behavior in Texas, and Jay-Z's partnership with the Brooklyn Public Library.
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EveryLibrary and Book Riot Partner on Survey About Parent Perceptions of Public Libraries
Iowa School District Using ChatGPT to Identify Titles to Be Removed from Libraries
Anti-LGBTQ Texas School Board Member Caught Illegally Entering School Library
Kansas Newspaper Illegally Raided by Police
Jay-Z Partners with Brooklyn Public Library
Watch the trailer for Hulu's adaptation of The Other Black Girl
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51:3421/08/2023
The Internet's Disappointed Mom
Rebecca and Vanessa talk about a trio of AI-related publishing shenanigans, the private equity firm that bought Simon & Schuster, and a cringey moment for the hockey romance community.
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Big congrats to Kelly on a well-deserved commendation
Literary Activism Newsletter
Paramount agrees to sell S & S to private equity firm KKR
AI-generated travel books are the latest Amazon scam
Author fights Amazon to have AI books listed under name removed
AI fiction analytics site Prosecraft shut down after author backlash
This hockey romance BookTok stuff is wild
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01:00:4014/08/2023
Pass the Grudge Around
Jeff and Rebecca end up spending most of this episode talking about a new publishing company that is cutting influencers in on the action.
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A New Start-Up Proposes Influencer-Driven Publishing
First Edition!
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
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01:04:4807/08/2023
Ninth in the Line of Cultural Currency
Jeff and Rebecca spend a long time talking about how the sheer quantity of books published is the central issue in book publishing. Plus, they hit a couple of quick news items and talk about recent reading.
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First Edition!
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Shout-out to PW’s Disability Representation in Publishing features
Booksellers sue over Texas law requiring them to rate books for appropriateness
Javier Zamora on why literary prizes should stop excluding non-citizens
Congrats to Libro.fm on their international launch!
BINC launches incubator for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ booksellers
GRRM says HBO deal is “suspended” and Winds of Winter is still in progress
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
Strip Tees by Kate Flannery
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01:03:2431/07/2023
UPDATED: The Ladder of Pockets
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the best-selling books of 2023, Obama's summer reading list, The Covenant of Water, and much more.
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Thanks to Charley Burlock for featuring us in this!
Obama summer reading, babyyyyyyy
PW: Best-selling books of 2023 so far
Generational shift at PRH as iconic editors take buyout
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
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01:03:0724/07/2023
Beneficent Ben
Jeff and Rebecca talk recent book banning developments, why book awards need to change their calendars, recent reading, and more.
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First Edition!
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Sarah Silverman suing Meta & OpenAI over copyright infringement related to AI
Libby/Overdrive banned for users under 18 in Mississippi
Judge sides w/ Florida in challenge to rules about books in schools
Pennsylvania senator to propose banning book bans
Britney Spears memoir will be released 10/24
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51:3617/07/2023
Both Eyebrows Raised, But in Different Directions
Jeff and Rebecca talk about #booktwitter, do a little "book of the year" talk, wonder about how all-in Oprah is on THE COVENANT OF WATER, novelists suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, whether TikTok is really going to do this publishing thing in a serious way, and much more.
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
ByteDance prepares to launch publishing operation
Authors sue OpenAI for unlawfully “ingesting” their books
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56:0710/07/2023
You Are Your Own Lottery Ticket
Jeff and Rebecca talk Obama declaring once and for all (?) that he does read the books he says he does. Also, a discussion of the realities of author finances along with structural problems with Goodreads.
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Hasan Minhaj Asks Barack Obama Who Really Curates His End-of-Year Lists: ‘Look Me in the Eyes and Be Honest’
How to Lose a Third of a Million Dollars Without Really Trying
How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It’s Published
The Guest by Emma Cline
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47:2303/07/2023
Unsocial Situations
Danika Ellis joins Jeff to talk about the last decade in LGBTQ+ books, Amazon's best books of the year so far, a recent essay about black women in publishing, and more.
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
The Lesbrary
Our Queerest Shelves
Despite Book Bans, LGBTQ+ Fiction Sales Soar
Amazon’s Best Books of the Year (So Far)
Shakeup at Indigo as almost half of company's board exits and chair Heather Reisman will also leave soon
Black Women Are Being Erased in Book Publishing
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55:2426/06/2023
We Used to Have Fun
Jeff and Kelly Jensen note the passing of two literary legends, ponder a strange pulling of a major novel, go deep on book banning legislation, and note the difficulty of paying bookstore workers a living wage, and more.
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Cormac McCarthy
Robert Gottlieb
Liz Gilbert Pulls The Snow Forest
New Library Legislation in Texas and Illinois
Bookstore Pay Survey
Changes at The New York Times Book Review
Norton Celebrates 100 Years
Reuters Digital News Report
Burn It Down by Maureen Ryan
Conspirituality by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker
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01:07:1019/06/2023
Shorten That Funnel, Baby
Jeff and Rebecca talk about a school in Utah banning the Bible, a book-banning organization officially being labeled an extremist group by the SPLC, a new federal position addressing book banning, B&N's Books of the Year (so far), and report in on recent reading.
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First Edition!
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Barnes & Noble’s best books of the year so far
Utah school district removes the Bible from elementary & middle schools
SPLC labels Moms for Liberty extremist, anti-government
Biden to name Dept of Ed coordinator to address book bans
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
The Good Enough Job by Simone Stolzoff
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
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57:3712/06/2023
A Little High Falutin'
Jeff and Rebecca talk about 2022's book sales, The Ripped Bodice branching out, audiobooks keep growing, an interesting new trailer, recent reading, and much more.
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First Edition!
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
2022 book sales down 2.6% from 2021
But the audiobook market keeps growing
Librarians sue Arkansas state over book banning law
The Color Purple trailer
The Ripped Bodice is opening a Brooklyn location
Wonder Boy
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
A Guide to Midwestern Conversation by Taylor Kay Phillips
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
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52:0605/06/2023
May I Suggest?
Jeff and Rebecca are off for the Memorial Day weekend, but Jeff offers something to hold you over in the meantime, and something to check out on May 31.
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First Edition
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40:1826/05/2023
It All Sounds Dirty
Jeff and Rebecca follow up on THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR and the mystery non-fiction title, get into an LLM marketing to help write novels, PRH and PEN sue Florida, and unexpected adaptation news.
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Sudowrite
PEN American & PRH sue Florida school district over book bans
Taika Waititi to direct Klara and the Sun adaptation
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55:2122/05/2023
People Have Lost Their Minds
Kelly Jensen joins Jeff to talk about two very weird publishing stories and then a long discussion about book banning and new legislation attempting to combat it.
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First Edition!
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
An Interview With the Author Whose Novel Is Rocketing up the Amazon Charts Thanks to a Tweet From Someone Called “Bigolas Dickolas”
Right To Read Bills
Taylor Swift Rumor Fuels Pre-Orders of Untitled Non-Fiction Book
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01:17:1615/05/2023
Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendations: 2023
Jeff and Rebecca respond to listener requests for recommendations.
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02:06:2508/05/2023
The Gimmick is Life
Jeff and Rebecca talk about good buzz for the adaptation of Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret coming out this weekend, the most banned books of 2013, continued improvements at Barnes & Noble, a new Twilight adaptation, and more.
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Book Riot’s new email newsletter, The Deep Dive
AYTGIMM comes out of the gate with $600k in Thursday preview box office
Twilight TV series in development
ALA releases top 13 most banned & challenged books of 2022
James Daunt says BN returns are down to 7% (from 30%) since ending co-op
Rating Covers of AYTGIMM by Judy Blume
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47:4401/05/2023
Submit for a recommendation for Moms, Dads, and Grads gifting season
Moms, Dads and Grads gifting season is upon us! So here is just a quick reminder if you're looking for a recommendation of books to give to a mom, a dad, a mom or dad figure in your life, a graduate, or something for yourself for the coming season, you have until this Thursday, April 27th to send those to us.
Send that to [email protected], and put "moms dads grads" in the subject line so that we know not to miss it.
And as always, these are first come first serve.
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00:4427/04/2023
Searching for the “It” Book of April
Jeff and Rebecca are traveling for work this week, so we present the inaugural episode of First Edition to tide you over. We’ll be back next week with a regular episode.
In the first section, Jeff and Rebecca play a game of “knockout” to figure out what the “it” book of April might be. In the second section, Yahdon Israel, Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster, comes on to talk about putting books into the world. And in section three, Sarah Bakewell and Jeff talk about humanism on the occasion of the publication of her new book, Humanly Possible.
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Wonder Boy by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
The Wager by David Grann
Happy Place by Emily Henry
In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
House of Cotton by Monica Brashears
Yahdon Israel’s Advance Readers Club
Soil by Camille T Dungy
Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell
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01:15:2224/04/2023
Wandering into Bookstores Barefoot
Jeff and Rebecca note a coming 10 years of discourse, are unimpressed by the bestselling books of the year so far, and chew on a big nothingburger about Obama’s reading list.
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First Edition!
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Book Riot’s new email newsletter, The Deep Dive
Update: the Harry Potter reboot is coming to HBO, and….it will run for 10 years
And Casey Bloys is already dodging the issue
First quarter bestsellers
The “secret” behind how Obama’s reading lists get made
Ebooks are coming to Bookshop
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01:02:5317/04/2023
You Cannot Moonlight as David
Jeff and Rebecca talk about audiobooks for quite a bit longer than they thought plus some other things.
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First Edition!
First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack.
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Book Riot’s new email newsletter, The Deep Dive
Brandon Sanderson has entered the chat re: Audible taking too big of a cut from indie authors
Cory Doctorow weighs in
Ads in Audible audiobooks
Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
House of Cotton by Monica Brashears
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01:07:5710/04/2023
MAD MEN, But for Publishing
Jeff and Rebecca tease First Edition a little bit more, wind up the case of the manuscript thief, continue to have more things to say about LLMs, are tentatively interested in Questlove’s new imprint, consider Jeff’s recent return to #booktwitter, and much more.
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First Edition!
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Book Riot’s new email newsletter, The Deep Dive
Bernardini gets time served & will be deported
Fun with AI: LibraryThing introduces a search tool for when you can’t remember a title
Questlove is starting an imprint
Wired’s Brandon Sanderson profile. And then Sanderson’s response. And then Esquire’s counter (?) profile.
The Real Work by Adam Gopnik
Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
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01:05:3203/04/2023
Break This Coffee Mug and Eat It
Jeff and Rebecca talk about a new podcast project (!), a record year for book bannings, more ChatGPT things (not all of them bad!), BookTok influencer pay, and much more.
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First Edition!
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Book Riot’s new email newsletter, The Deep Dive
We’re hiring a web developer
ALA reports attempted book bans nearly doubled in 2022 over 2021 022
A new U.S. House resolution will further ignite book bans
Coalition urges S & S not to distribute Skyhorse title by AIDS denialist
ChatGPT listed as author on more than 200 books now available on Amazon
And the WGA proposes allowing use of ChatGPT in scripts as long as it doesn’t impact author credit/residuals
Vox does the deep dive on BookTok authenticity
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01:01:4327/03/2023
Temporal Neophytes
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the Chat-GTP4's weak performance on AP English Exams, Leigh Bardugo getting that bag, why modern adults seem befuddled by time, recent reading, and more.
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Book Riot’s new email newsletter, The Deep Dive
Shout-out to Rioter Susie Dumond, finalist for a Lambda Literary award for best lesbian romance
The Trans Rights Readathon is a thing, March 20-27
Manuscript thief pleads guilty
Leigh Bardugo’s 8-figure Macmillan deal
Birnham Wood by Eleanor Catton
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns
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01:04:2320/03/2023
Give the People What They Want
Jeff and Rebecca talk about Noam Chomsky on AI, women publishing more books than men, a celebrity bookstore acquisition, TikTok getting into publishing, and more.
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Book Riot’s new email newsletter, The Deep Dive
Worth a read: Noam Chomsky isn’t worried about ChatGPT replacing writers/artists
Women are publishing more books than men, and it’s good for business
Chip Gaines buys Larry McMurtry’s Texas bookstore
ByteDance hiring an acquisition editor!
A take on TikTok via listener Alex
Enchantment by Katherine May
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
Dyscalculia by Chamonghne Felix
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51:3913/03/2023