Book Riot: The 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.

2024 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part the Second

Jeff and Rebecca return for the second half of our 2024 Recommendation Extravaganza.

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.

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.

Power Ranking the Books of 1994

This week on the Book Riot Podcast, Jeff and Rebecca look back 30 years to 1994 and power-rank the year's most influential, important, and memorable titles.

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

This week on the Book Riot Podcast, 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.

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

On the Book Riot Podcast, Jeff and Rebecca make their picks for locks, likelies, and would-like-to-sees ahead of the anticipated release of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year list next week

The Black List

This week on the Book Riot Podcast, Rebecca Schinksy talks to Franklin Leonard and Randy Winston about The Black List, a project to get exceptional, unproduced work into the world.

The It Books of November 2024

This week on the Book Riot Podcast, Jeff and Rebecca decide the It Book of November.

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

This week on the Book Riot Podcast, 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's like breaking into the world of books as an assistant to a literary agent.

The Impossible Book Questions We Want Answered

This week on the Book Riot Podcast, 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.