Podcast: Book Riot

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the best-selling books of the year so far, a variety of bookstore related mysteries, recent reading, and more.
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TBR! For Mother's Day! Or anyone on any day!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
US and UK Book Covers
Lauren Groff & James McBride named to Time 100
Knife by Salman Rushdie
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
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Rebecca and Jeff look ahead to notable summer adaptations, including Bridgerton, Dark Matter, House of the Dragon, and more.
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Email us (podcast at bookriot dot com) with moms, dads, and grads recommendation requests!
First Edition!
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about some recent book-related travel things, do some quick adulation of James, and much more.
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
How about the nugget in this piece on AI that Meta thought about buying Simon & Schuster
Amazon grab-and-go was a sham
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis
James by Percival Everett
There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
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Jeff and Rebecca check in with a selection of recent streaming adaptations (Shogun, 3 Body Problem, Masters of the Air, A Gentleman in Moscow, Ripley) and briefly discuss the year of Dune.
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Sharifah Williams joins Jeff to talk about fonts of all things, plus what's going on with Spotify, the tough media landscape, and more.
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
HarperCollins saves thousands of trees with small tweak to book design
Spotify Might Be Raising Prices. Kinda Told Ya.
New museum for Children’s literature opens in Kansas City
What I Would Do If I Were Starting Book Riot...Today
Jeff Commits a TikTok
Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee
Little Blue Truck
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about the "it" books of the month. And struggle to pronounce Amor Towles.
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First Edition!
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The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
Table for Two by Amor Towles
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Reboot by Justin Taylor
The Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Funny Story by Emily Henry
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
Knife by Salman Rushdie
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After noting the passing of Daniel Kahneman, Jeff debriefs Rebecca on his most recent round of discussions with the publishing world.
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
RIP Daniel Kahneman
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Undoing Project
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Jeff and Rebecca discuss the idea of prestige TV as the literary fiction of visual media, dissect The Hollywood Reporter's list of the 50 best shows of the 21st century, and dive into their own favorites.

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Jeff and Rebecca talk about authors they think are underrated. Even if only a little.
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Jeff and Rebecca walk through their non-book media diets.
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Book Riot's managing editor Vanessa Diaz joins Rebecca to discuss an upcoming adaptation of Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honorees, DC's plan to celebrate the first trans superhero, and more.
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There’s a big screen adaptation of Nickel Boys coming soon
DC Pride to honor creator of the first trans superhero
Illinois school district pulls out of statewide book award
Meanwhile, in Virginia, school district cancels district-wide read of Wishtree because it contains a tree that has both male and female reproductive parts. Yep.
Congrats to the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honorees
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The Hunter by Tana French
Oye by Melissa Mogollon
The Tower by Flora Carr
The Exvangelicals by Sarah McCammon
Sociopath by Patric Gagne
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
James by Percival Everett
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Jeff is away this week, so in honor of baseball season getting underway, we are rerunning our episode in which Jeff and Rebecca talk about Field of Dreams and the book it's based on, W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe.

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Jeff and Rebecca try to guess which authors appear on each other's "insta-buy" lists.
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about publishers misrepresenting posthumous books, Jeff's Q&A with Authors Equity CEO Madeline McIntosh, RuPaul's Allstora backtracking, and much more.
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Follow-up: Madeline McIntosh Q & A about Authors Equity
RuPaul and Allstora backtrack on selling anti-LGBTQ titles
Legislators in Delaware and Connecticut propose anti-book ban measures
It's Time for Publishers to Tell the Truth About Posthumously Published Books
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On the occasion of Cord Jefferson's Best Adapted Screenplay win, Jeff and Rebecca talk about their favorite books, movies, and TV shows set in the world of books before talking about Erasure by Percival Everett and American Fiction.
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Elf
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Luster by Raven Leilani
Hothouse by Boris Kachka
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Erasure by Percival Everett
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Book Riot editor Danika Ellis joins Jeff to talk about Allstore (a new online bookstore) and Authors Equity (a new publisher) coming at the same target from two different angles. Plus: a report on diversity in publishing and Spotify's curious new Audiobooks Tier.
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Our Queerest Shelves
The Read Harder Challenge
Is This What Author-Centered Publishing Looks Like?
RuPaul Launches an “Online Book Marketplace”
RuPaul bookstore controversy
Results of Lee & Low’s publishing diversity baseline survey and Erica’s response in The Deep Dive
Spotify introduces audiobooks tier at $9.99
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Jeff and Rebecca try to predict the most literary Oscar.
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Ranking the Last 20 Winners of the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay
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Jeff and Rebecca note a customer survey Bookshop.org sent to customers about their audiobook habits, decide no-new news is good news as Jesmyn Ward stays on at S&S, really resonate with Ted Gioia's "State of Culture, 2024," and more.
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Bookshop.org appears to be interested in audiobooks
Jesmyn Ward signs 3-book deal with Scribner
TikTok-famous librarian quits because of harassment
And I think we have to talk about Ted Gioia and the state of the culture
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Jeff and Rebecca discuss Kelly Link's debut novel, The Book of Love.
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Jeff and Rebecca pick the "it" book of March.
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First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
The Hunter by Tana French
Maktub by Paulo Coehlo
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
The Morningside by Téa Obreht
Memory Piece by Lisa Ko
There's Always Next Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
Until August by Gabriel García Márquez
The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black
James by Percival Everett
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