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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.

3 HR AGO

The Best Gift Books of 2024

Jeff and Rebecca recommend books released in 2024 that would make great gifts — for a bunch of different kinds of readers. 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 on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan Be Ready When the Luck Happens The God of the Woods Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange By The Fire We Carry Bone of the Bone The Serviceberry Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts What Goes With What Kids Cook Anything by Mark Bittman The Other Significant Others Vanishing Treasures Beautiful Creatures Margot's Got Money Troubles Colored Television Knife Smoke Kings Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop Cue the Sun! The Bright Sword Mythos by Stephen Fry An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children The Researcher's First Murder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

56 min
2 DAYS AGO

2024 Holiday Recommendation Show (Part 1) + the 2024 National Book Awards

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards a little before embarking on the first of two rounds of answering listener holiday recommendation requests. 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 on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Angie Kim Megan Abbott Liz Moore Dr No Motherless Brooklyn The Most Fun We Ever Had On Beauty Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Yellowface Everything I Never Told You Jami Attenberg Colored Television Be Ready When the Luck Happens Chemistry Margo’s Got Money Trouble Birnam Wood House of Cotton In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez The Overstory The God of the Woods The Trees Barkskins The Most Greek Lessons The Buddha in the Attic Wintering Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows Greta & Valdin Michael Lewis Steven Johnson Hanif Abdurraquib Challenger How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe How Big Things Get Done Gilead Our Souls at Night The Woman Next Door Educated A Love Song for Ricki Wilde Looking for a Sign Merry Little Meet Cute Storied Life of AJ Fikry Ink Blood Sister Scribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 14m
20 NOV

Jeff and Rebecca look back 30 years to 1994 and power-rank the year's most influential, important, and memorable titles.

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 choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 hr
18 NOV

Amazon's Best Books of the Year, Goodreads Choice Voting, and More

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 episode: The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Send us your recommendation requests: podcast (at) bookriot (dot) com Good news: most TX school board candidates who support book bans lost their elections Amazon editors’ best books of 2024 Voting is open for the Goodreads Choice Awards PW annual salary survey Barnes & Noble on track to open 60 new stores this year India’s ban on The Satanic Verses may end because of missing paperwork Playground by Richard Powers When the Coffee Gets Cold Orbital by Samantha Harvey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

54 min
13 NOV

The Books Most Likely to Be on THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 Notable Books of 2024 List

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, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Send us your recommendation requests: podcast (at) bookriot (dot) com James Martyr! RSTLNE Locks All Fours There’s Always This Year Revenge of the Tipping Point The Anxious Generation God of the Woods Knife Creation Lake Intermezzo The Women Orbital The City and Its Uncertain Walls The Mighty Red Demon of Unrest Mutual Agreed Upon Tier B Beautyland Splinters Wandering Stars Playground Rejection By the Fire We Carry Be Ready When the Luck Happens Split Decisions John Lewis: A Life Everyone Who is Gone is Here Long Island Compromise Splinters Margot’s Got Money Troubles Colored Television Code Dependent The Small and the Mighty Entitlement This Strange, Eventful History All That Glitters Lovely One Sonny Boy Patriot by Alexei Navalny Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

50 min
11 NOV

The Black List

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 Riot Podcast Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

48 min
6 NOV

The It Books of November 2024

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 by Peter Ames Carlin High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul by Marcus Moore Heartbreak is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music by Rob Sheffield Cher: Part One Lost and Lassoed by Lyla Sage Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong Masquerade by Mike Fu The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer Four Points of the Compass by Jerry Brotton What the Chicken Knows by Sy Montgomery Vanishing Treasure by Katherine Rundell Lazarus Man by Richard Price The Half King by Melissa Landers The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

40 min
4 NOV

B&N's Book of the Year Finalists, PW's Books of the Year, Recent Reading, and What It's Like to Be a Newcomer in the World of Literary Agencies

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 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 The Book Group A belated fare-thee-well to John Gierach Barnes & Noble’s Book of the Year finalists The PW Best Books of the Year list is here, and it’s as hard to navigate as ever The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak We Solve Murders by Richard Osman Conclave by Robert Harris Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the Book Riot Podcast!

The Book Riot Podcast is a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking about in the world of books and reading, brought to you by the editors of Book Riot. Each Monday, Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinsky break down industry news, and bonus episodes air regularly digging into everything from adaptations to book clubs to interviews and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/04/2020

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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.