Book Riot - The Podcast
News in the world of books and reading, including hot industry releases, adaptations, publishing industry events, and more with Book Riot’s Jeff O’Neal and Rebecca Schinsky. 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.
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June 17, 2026 • 42 mins
Rebecca and Vanessa break down the books topping the best-of and bestseller lists as we near the halfway point of the year.
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June 14, 2026 • 62 mins
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the growth of the number of books (and authors) vying for reader dollars, continue to lament the long 2025 award season, wonder about the expansion of PRH's audio initiatives, talk about recent reading, and more.
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June 10, 2026 • 47 mins
Vanessa Diaz returns to regale Rebecca with the messy tale of the marriage between a well-known Harlem Renaissance poet and the daughter of a famous public thinker.
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June 7, 2026 • 71 mins
Jeff and Rebecca talk about some new best books of the year so far lists, adaptation news, recent reading, and more before talking with the new President of the American Library Association, Dr. Maria McCauley.
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June 3, 2026 • 54 mins
Jeff and Rebecca select the It Book of June 2026.
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May 31, 2026 • 60 mins
Jeff and Rebecca talk about a relatively sleepy week in book news, but James Daunt bails us out by not shutting up about AI books that don't exist.
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May 27, 2026 • 52 mins
Jeff and Rebecca preview summer adaptations to check out this year.
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May 24, 2026 • 66 mins
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the full Guardian Best Novels of All-Time List, The International Book Prize Winner, a whole rat's nest of AI-related stories, recent reading, and more.
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May 20, 2026 • 47 mins
Jeff and Rebecca talk about what books are making waves as summer gets rolling.
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May 17, 2026 • 54 mins
Jeff and Rebecca note The Guardian's new collaborative list of the 100 greatest novels of all time, ponder PRH's delivery of "a strong business performance, updated our Fourth Wing Ever Gets Adapted odds, and more.
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May 13, 2026 • 79 mins
Jeff and Rebecca wrap up recommendation season.
Discussed in this episode:
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Julie Otsuka
Susan Choi
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
The Hike by Drew Magary
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
Kin by Tayari Jones, go back to
Fates & Furies by Groff
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
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May 10, 2026 • 69 mins
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the 2026 Pulitzer prizes, best books of the year so far, summer book previews, and more of the week's book news.
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May 6, 2026 • 50 mins
Jeff and Rebecca try to pick the It Book of May 2026.
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May 3, 2026 • 61 mins
Part 1 of our Spring 2026 Moms, Dads, and Grads recommendations extravaganza.
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April 29, 2026 • 47 mins
Prof. Laura McGrath joins Jeff to talk about her new book, Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction. Literary agents try to stay out of the spotlight, but they shape what you read. We talk about why agents came into being, how they have developed over time, and how American fiction wouldn't be the same without them.
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April 26, 2026 • 43 mins
Vanessa Diaz sits in for Rebecca to talk with Jeff about The Women's Prize shortlist, Practical Magic 2, the most banned books of 2025, how human it is for people to know that reading is good for them and still not do it, recent reading, and more.
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April 22, 2026 • 66 mins
Jeff and Rebecca look at the Pulitzer-prize winning books of the century so far and rank them. Some surprises at the top.
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Latest Pew research on Americans’ reading habits
Spotify launches option to purchase physical books
Tayari Jones, Freida McFadden, and Yiyun Li named to TIME 100
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April 19, 2026 • 59 mins
Jeff and Rebecca mull over Pew's most recent data about American reading habits, Spotify launches physical book buying, authors on the TIME100 list, listener feedback, and more.
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April 15, 2026 • 40 mins
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the books that have the heat this month.
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April 12, 2026 • 80 mins
Jeff and Rebecca note the closing of MCD, talk about The Correspondent's rise, Paramount gets back into books, scratch their heads over Audible's Story House, recent reading, and more.
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