Book Riot - The Podcast

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. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca reveal their favorite books of 2024. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon 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 Blackpill Ghostroots by Pemi Aguda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon 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 What's Next Nightbitch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Our Full Year It Books Finalists and Picks Big List of Steamy Romances Nuts and Bolts Challenger Cork Dork Greta & Valdin Parable of the Sower Land of Milk and Honey Martyr! Intermezzo Strange Eventful History The Bee Sting Say Nothing Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor Rental House A Century of Tomorrows Giant Love The Rivals The Rest is Memory by Lily Tuck Alter Ego by Alex Segura Custodians of Wonder Cabin by Patrick Hutchinson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca return for the second half of our 2024 Recommendation Extravaganza. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon 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  Pachinko A Gentleman in Moscow Kevin Wilson Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart  The Sellout 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 Life is Meals Ross Gay Year of Wonder by Clemency Burton Hill Pig Years 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 House of Mirth 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  North Woods The Sympathizer 23 of the Best & Swooniest Romantasy Reads Small World by Jonathan Evison Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson East of Eden  Frederick Backman  Thursday Murder Club Sipsworth Creation Lake Someone Like Us Entitlement People in the Trees  The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Intermezzo The Mighty Red I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself Such a Fun Age The Vanishing Half Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca recommend books released in 2024 that would make great gifts — for a bunch of different kinds of readers. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon 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 Knife Smoke Kings Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop Cue the Sun! The Bright Sword Mythos by Stephen Fry An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children The Researcher's First Murder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Angie Kim Megan Abbott Liz Moore Dr No Motherless Brooklyn The Most Fun We Ever Had On Beauty Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Yellowface Everything I Never Told You Jami Attenberg  Colored Television Be Ready When the Luck Happens Chemistry Margo’s Got Money Trouble Birnam Wood  House of Cotton In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez The Overstory The God of the Woods The Trees Barkskins The Most Greek Lessons The Buddha in the Attic Wintering Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows Greta & Valdin Michael Lewis Steven Johnson Hanif Abdurraquib Challenger How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe How Big Things Get Done Gilead Our Souls at Night The Woman Next Door  Educated A Love Song for Ricki Wilde Looking for a Sign Merry Little Meet Cute  Storied Life of AJ Fikry Ink Blood Sister Scribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca look back 30 years to 1994 and power-rank the year's most influential, important, and memorable titles. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Send us your recommendation requests: podcast (at) bookriot (dot) co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Send us your recommendation requests: podcast (at) bookriot (dot) com Good news: most TX school board candidates who support book bans lost their elections Amazon editors’ best books of 2024 Voting is open for the Goodreads Choice Awards PW annual salary survey Barnes & Noble on track to open 60 new stores this year India’s ban on The Satanic Verses may end because of missing paperwork Playground by Richard Powers When the Coffee Gets Cold Orbital by Samantha Harvey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We consider The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year list to be the book list of record. In this episode, we make our picks for locks, likelies, and would-like-to-sees ahead of the anticipated release of the list next week. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Send us your recommendation requests: podcast (at) bookriot (dot) com James  Martyr! RSTLNE Locks All Fours There’s Always This Year Revenge of the Tipping Point The Anxious Generation God of the Woods Knife Creation Lake Intermezzo The Women Orbital The City and Its Uncertain Walls The Mighty Red Demon of Unrest Mutual Agreed Upon Tier B Beautyland Splinters Wandering Stars Playground Rejection By the Fire We Carry Be Ready When the Luck Happens Split Decisions John Lewis: A Life Everyone Who is Gone is Here Long Island Compromise Splinters Margot’s Got Money Troubles Colored Television Code Dependent The Small and the Mighty Entitlement This Strange, Eventful History All That Glitters Lovely One Sonny Boy Patriot by Alexei Navalny Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca Schinksy talks to Franklin Leonard and Randy Winston about The Black List, a project to get exceptional, unproduced work into the world. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Black List The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca decide the It Book of November. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Variation by Rebecca Yarros Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik The Name of This Band is R.E.M by Peter Ames Carlin High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul by Marcus Moore Heartbreak is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music by Rob Sheffield Cher: Part One Lost and Lassoed by Lyla Sage Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong Masquerade by Mike Fu The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer Four Points of the Compass by Jerry Brotton What the Chicken Knows by Sy Montgomery Vanishing Treasure by Katherine Rundell Lazarus Man by Richard Price The Half King by Melissa Landers The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 it's like breaking into the world of books as an assistant to a literary agent. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon The Book Group A belated fare-thee-well to John Gierach Barnes & Noble’s Book of the Year finalists The PW Best Books of the Year list is here, and it’s as hard to navigate as ever The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak We Solve Murders by Richard Osman Conclave by Robert Harris Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sharifah Williams joins Jeff to talk about B&N's Best Books of the Year list, promising trailers, PRH's new boilerplate AI language, and more of the week's top book news. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: Barnes & Noble best books of 2024 (ohmygod it isn’t even Halloween yet) PRH adds language to copyright pages prohibiting use in AI training How Should Debut Novelists Measure Success? Ursula K. Le Guin Prize Say Nothing God of the Woods by Liz Moore Ghostroots by Pemi Aguda Orbital by Samantha Harvey Sonny Boy by Al Pacino Interior Chinatown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca head down to the literary trading floor and evaluate their portfolio to determine which authors to buy, sell, or hold. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca mark the beginning of what should be a busy awards season for James, talk about Taylor Swift's notable book release strategy, get ready for TikTok to publish print titles, and mull more of the week's book news. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: Percival Everett wins the Kirkus Prize South Carolina public library to stop acquiring books for minors Amazon announces Kindle Colorsoft Taylor Swift publishing first official book as Target exclusive  ByteDance imprint 8th Note Press to publish first print books in 2025 Kate McKinnon to host National Book Awards What I Ate In One Year by Stanley Tucci Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman The Driving Machine by Witold Rybcyznski A Reason to See You Again by jami attenberg The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk about a shared favorite movie, 1989's When Harry Met Sally. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Sharifah talk about Han Kang's Nobel win, the twenty-thousands serious and dedicated readers of literary fiction, a Book It! Program misdirect, and more news of the week. Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Discussed in this episode: The 50 U.S. Writers That Could Win the Nobel. Someday. My Life in Bookshelves Company to help authors license their work to AI companies What good is great literature? New goodreads competitor 20,000 readers of literary fiction? FRAUDULENT RESURRECTION OF BOOK IT THIS IS NOT IT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca go through Jeff's recent piece, The 10 Most Interesting Questions in the World of Books and Reading? Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The 10 Most Interesting Questions in the World of Books and Reading? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices