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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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Latest Episodes:

The Year in Review Dec 23, 2024

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Jeff and Rebecca look back at the books & stories that defined 2024.

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The 2025 Read Harder Challenge is live

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The dust settled as publishing’s earnings rebound in H1

Barnes & Noble is back, baby, and they bought a beloved indie

The Discourse:

Coming Attractions:

Book banning news:

In memoriam:

The #metoo trifecta of Cormac McCarthy, Alice Munro, and Neil Gaiman

The robots are coming:

Number go up: US audiobook sales hit $2 billion in 2023

One to watch: ByteDance’s 8th Note Press to publish print books in 2025

This is why literacy matters: Florida dept of education recommends Pride & Prejudice as a book about American pride

Listener feedback award: the surprising origins of publishing’s seasons, Sophia’s It Books tracker

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The Books We Missed This Year [Teaser] Dec 18, 2024

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A preview of our most recent Patreon-only episode about the books we missed this year (though, maybe we will get to a few of them? maybe?).

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Taking Stock of the Year in Adaptations Dec 18, 2024

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Jeff and Rebecca take a look at the hits, misses, and favorites from the year in literary adaptations.

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The Books of the Year Dec 16, 2024

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Jeff and Rebecca settle in to figure what 10 books from 2024 defined the year. Not the best (necessarily), the most popular (though could be), or most interesting (in many cases not), but a list that comes closest to telling the story of 2024 in reading.

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How THE NEW YORK TIMES Picks The 100 Notable, and 10 Best, Books of the Year Dec 12, 2024

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Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, joins Jeff to talk about the colossal undertaking that is making its 100 Notable Books List and its 10 Best Books of the Year List.

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Our Favorite Books of the Year Dec 11, 2024

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Jeff and Rebecca reveal their favorite books of 2024.

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James by Percival Everett

There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib

Splinters by Leslie Jamison

Knife by Salman Rushdie

Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

Challenger by Adam Higginbotham

The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman

The Other Significant Others

Colored Television

Margot's Got Money Trouble

Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham

Ghostroots by Pemi Aguda

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The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024, Goodreads Choice Winners, Spotify's Most-Listened Audiobooks, and more. Dec 09, 2024

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Jeff and Rebecca get into the NYT's 100 Notable and 10 Best Books of the Year list, Goodreads Choice winners, Cormac McCarthy's distressing hidden relationship, and kidney stones.

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Cormac McCarthy’s secret muse was 16 when he began a relationship with her

Costco to keep books in-store year-round in 100 locations

The NYT’s 100 notable books of the year and Top 10

Spotify reveals top audiobooks in the US & globally

Goodreads Choice Awards are as white as ever

The Tournament of Books shortlist has landed

Taylor Swift book sales best everyone but Barack

Rental House by Weike Wang

The Boys of Riverside

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Looking Back at Our It Book Picks of the Year, Interesting December Releases, and a Few More Holiday Recommendations Dec 04, 2024

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Jeff and Rebecca do a few more holiday recommendations before talking about nine interesting new books coming in December and then taking stock of their monthly It Book guesses.

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Our Full Year It Books Finalists and Picks

Big List of Steamy Romances

Parable of the Sower

Land of Milk and Honey

Strange Eventful History

Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

A Century of Tomorrows

The Rest is Memory by Lily Tuck

Alter Ego by Alex Segura

Custodians of Wonder

Cabin by Patrick Hutchinson

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2024 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part the Second Dec 02, 2024

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

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Nevada by Imogen Binnie

Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Tommy Orange

A Gentleman in Moscow

Kevin Wilson

Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

Bookshop.org

Little Blue Truck

Pete’s a Pizza

Race to the Wild

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

House on the Cerulean Sea

The Parker Inheritance

Winnie the Pooh

8 Books About Houses Haunted by More Than Ghosts

20 Must-Read Stories of Eerie Cabins & Haunted Houses

Hacienda by Isabel Canas

Ghostroots by Pemi Aguda

All the Right Notes by Dominic Lim

Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong

Sandwich by Catherine Newman

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

Ross Gay

Year of Wonder by Clemency Burton Hill

Carolyn Heilbrun’s Kate Fansler Series

Eleanor Catton

Brit Bennett

Kevin Wilson

Zadie Smith

Colson Whitehead

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Pride and Prejudice

Count of Monte Cristo

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell

Tana French

New Cozy Books to Snuggle Up With This Fall

Cozy Historical Fantasy

Cozy, Comforting BIPOC Books

Legends & Lattes

The Night Circus

Book with No Pictures by BJ Novak

What Do People Do All Day by Richard Scarry

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Real Americans by Rachel Khong

Jesmyn Ward

The Sympathizer

23 of the Best & Swooniest Romantasy Reads

Small World by Jonathan Evison

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

Frederick Backman

Thursday Murder Club

Someone Like Us

People in the Trees

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself

The Vanishing Half

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The Best Gift Books of 2024 Nov 27, 2024

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Jeff and Rebecca recommend books released in 2024 that would make great gifts — for a bunch of different kinds of readers.

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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

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

The Bright Sword

Mythos by Stephen Fry

An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children

The Researcher's First Murder

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