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.

Book Club: THE ANTIDOTE

Jeff and Rebecca talk about The Antidote by Karen Russell.

New York Report, New Harper Lee Collection Announced, Golden Ticket Strategies, and more

Jeff fills Rebecca on his recent trip to New York for publishing meetings before they talk about the newly announced Harper Lee collection and other items of note.

The It Books of March 2025

Jeff and Rebecca get ready for Spring with March's It Book Knockout Round.

Give Me Liberty AND Give Me Jeff

With Rebecca out, Liberty Hardy joins Jeff on the occasion of the 500th episode of All the Books!. They talk about being book podcasters and a host of other reading-related topics.

Who Will The Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay?

Jeff and Rebecca run though the nominees for the 2025 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and assign each of them a win probability. Please do not bet on these.

Will Romantasy Get a Shot at a Big-Time Adaptation?

Jeff and Rebecca digest a bunch of high-profile adaptation news which leads them to wonder about the prospects of a big-budget romantasy series ever coming to screens, some news around book bannings and censorship, talk about recent reading and more.

Which Writers Could Most Benefit from a Signal Adaptation?

Jeff and Rebecca talk about authors they think would most benefit from (or they would just personally like to see have) a signal adaptation.

The Big 5 Are Indeed Big, First Major AI Verdict Comes In, Remembering Tom Robbins, and more.

First up, Jeff offers his remembrances of reading Tom Robbins. Then, Jeff and Rebecca talk about the hardcover dominance of the Big 5, the first landmark AI fair use case, recent reading, and more.

Everything Romance with Jessica Pryde

Jeff and Rebecca are joined by romance expert Jessica Pryde to talk about romantasy, current trends in romance, category romance, navigating commercial romance covers, and much more.

Gaiman Sued, Blurbs Deprecated, and A Book Sales Check-In

Jeff and Rebecca spend more time than they would like in legal-land before talking about how everybody hates blurbs, recent reading, and other book news. Then, Brenna Connor of Circana joins Jeff to talk about 2024 book sales highlights and lowlights before looking ahead to 2025.