Book Riot - The Podcast

Jeff and Rebecca talk about HBO's stunning adaptation of WATCHMEN. This episode is sponsored by: Book Riot Insiders. The Novel Gazing Podcast Libro.fm The Read Harder Challenge See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca preview titles coming out in the first four months of 2020 with a little Buy, Sell, Hold. This episode is sponsored by: Book Riot Insiders. The Novel Gazing Podcast Libro.fm Books discussed in this episode: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid Long Bright River by Liz Moore Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump Weather by Jenny Offill Anna K by Jenny Lee Deacon King Kong by James McBride My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell New Waves by Kevin Nguyen The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel The City We Became by NK Jemisin Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about the new head of the ABA starting the gig, Crawdads with a triple crown, more talk about returning Audible credits, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: The Novel Gazing Podcast Flatiron Books, Publisher of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Love Her or Lose Her by Tessa Bailey, published by Avon Books Book Riot Insiders Links discussed in this episode: Crawdads won the triple crown of sales in 2019 Follow-up: Audible & publishers have settled the suit over captions Follow-up: Loudon County officials vote to keep protested LGBTQ books in schools Record number of library systems top 1 million digital checkouts in 2019 Game of Thrones spin-off coming in 2022 Hero of the week: St Louis teen starts book subscription service for black boys See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca discuss the best-selling books of 2019, Obama's 2019 reading recs, the RWA meltdown, and more. This episode is sponsored by: Libro.fm The Read Harder Challenge Book Riot Insiders Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict Links discussed in this episode: RIP Sonny Mehta Bestsellers of 2019 Obama’s favorite books of 2019...and they were finally not just on FB The RWA has a racism problem Romance Writers problem matters because people are watching The Implosion of the RWA Avon & Harlequin pull out of RWA in response:  https://twitter.com/avonbooks/status/1214925842830299136?s=20 https://twitter.com/sparkjoyromance/status/1214931763409117185?s=20 Book Culture update See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  Jeff and Rebecca are joined by Amanda Nelson to pick the books the defined the 2010s. This episode is sponsored by: Spalding University The Severed Moon by Leigh Bardugo The Read Harder Journal Books discussed in this episode: 50 Shades of Grey by EL James Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Becoming by Michelle Obama/Fear by Bob Woodward The Testaments by Margaret Atwood The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg Wild by Cheryl Strayed the Elena Ferrante quartet (My Brilliant Friend) Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas The Martian by Andy Weir The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes Becoming by Michelle Obama The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur Dogman Volume #1 by Dave Pilkey The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo Hunger by Roxane Gay See omnystudio.com/listener for

Jeff and Rebecca look back that the stories that made 2019 in books and reading. Plus, some of their favorite non-book things of the years. This episode is sponsored by: Book Riot’s YA Instagram The Read Harder Journal Sips by Libro.fm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the Goodreads Choice Winners, Bill Gates' recommended books for 2019, more wrong-headed prison books news, and more. This episode is sponsored by: Sips by The Read Harder Journal Switched On Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding Book Riot's YA Instagram Links discussed in this episode: Fresh round of resignations at the Nobel Prize for Lit Goodreads winners The Critics Version Amazon charts of 2019 Bill Gates’s End-of-Year book list West Virginia will charge prisoners by the minute to read ebooks And Kansas still unfairly bans books in prisons Audiobooks predicted to overtake ebooks in UK See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca wrap up their annual Holiday Recommendation show. This episode is sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi Book Riot's Read Harder 2020 Challenge Books and authors recommended in this episode: Marge Piercy Mary Oliver Elizabeth Bishop  Top Gun by Dan Pedersen The Warmth of Other Suns by Isbell Wilkerson Building Stories, Salt Fat Acid Heat,  Saga Compendium 1 Monstress Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan All You Can Ever Know 2am at the Cats Pajamas,  The Little Bookstore at Big Stone Gap Different Seasons Last Woman Standing My Sister the Serial Killer The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz, A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas Dan Brown!?! Nature Fix, Braiding Sweetgrass On Trails Preparing the Ghost One Giant Leap by Charles Fishman The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong Vegan for Everybody Oh S

Jeff and Rebecca tackle the first batch of listener recommendation requests for the 2020 holiday season. This episode is sponsored by: Opus X One - Obsidian Detective by Michael Anderle Bibliostyle by Nina Freudenberger Feminist Book Club Box + Podcast The Great Courses Plus She Said So You Want to Talk About Race Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer We Are Okay by Nina LaCour Dear Madam President Wolfpack by Abby Wambach Power of Meaning Bored & Brilliant The Adventurer’s Son Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel The Master Plan by Chris Wilson Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom by David Blight Hourglass by Dani Shapiro How to Be Married Mating in Captivity Marriageology by Belinda Luscombe The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind Hammerhead by Nina Maclaughlin Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee Best American Food Writing 2019 Taste of Country Cooking Note

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the National Book Awards, more about the terrible Nobel year, some adaptation news, and more. This episode is sponsored by: The Read Harder Journal American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Sips By Links discussed in this episode: Holy bad looks, Batman: Nobel jurors gave prize to Handke after falling for a conspiracy theory 2019 National Book Awards Announced Author responds after West Virginia library removes LGBT book from shelves And locals are upset b/c the decision has been delayed Memphis Public Libraries joins the overdue fines cancellation trend We have a Daisy Jones! Lord of the Rings series at Amazon already greenlit for Season 2 David! Chang! Memoir! 2019 Publishing Salary Survey See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk BN getting on the award train, Amazon releases its best books of the year list, and a weird amount of action in Virginia. This episode is sponsored by: Imaginary Friend by Stephen Cbhosky Eye for Eye by J.K. Franko The Read Harder Journal Links discussed in this episode: Virginia libraries join Macmillan ebook boycott Amazon’s best books of the year list is out, and it is wrong Barnes & Noble introduces Book of the Year Award And a redesigned Barnes & Noble store in Virginia Beach is book-focused Angry parents protest LGBTQ books in Loudon County, Virginia classroom libraries See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca discuss three big new TV adaptions: His Dark Materials (HBO), Watchmen (HBO), and Dickinson (Apple TV+). This episode is sponsored by: Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jeff and Rebecca watch OverDrive jump into the Macmillan embargo fray, pass along a correction about The Little Free Library story, assess the nominees for the Goodreads choice awards, and ridicule some worse-than-clowns in Florida. This episode is sponsored by: Make New Mistakes The Great Courses Plus The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali Enter to Win $50 to Your Favorite Indie Bookstore! Links discussed in this episode: OverDrive wades into the Macmillan ebook fray Library unsubscribes from NYT because of Trump calling it Fake News Correction re: Little Free Library (thank you, Margret Aldrich) Nashville Public Library suspends macmillan ebook purchases Indianapolis Public Library adjusts ebook circulation limits Goodreads Choice Awards are live Heroes of the week: 650 people form a human chain to move books See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk about Baz Luhrmann's 1996 adaptation of ROMEO + JULIET. This episode is sponsored by: The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell Where to Begin by Cleo Wade Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca assess the updates to the Game of Thrones spin-offverse, close-read the CEO of Macmillan's letter about their ebook embargo, wade briefly into a battle over Little Free Libraries, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: Book Riot's YA Instagram The Great Courses Plus The Make New Mistakes Podcast The Escape of Light by Fred Venturini Links discussed in this episode: Macmillan CEO writes letter to libraries as embargo takes effect First of HBO’s GoT spinoffs is dead And one is ordered to series Little Free Library, Founder’s Family, Clash Over Future Direction Little more info about Bookshop New! Marie! Kondo! Book returns increased by 240% since Chicago libraries eliminated late fees Boston Public Library eliminates fines for people under 18 Self-publishers making big money on blank books See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk about The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. This episode is sponsored by: The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell Where to Begin by Cleo Wade Relevant Link: The Beautiful Power of Ta-Nehisi Coates See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the ALA's report on anti-competitive practices in the digital library market, exciting adaptation casting news, additional agita about the Booker prize, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: Win a Blind Date with a Book! Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu Spalding University Into the Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo Links discussed in this episode: NYT Book Review launching first-chapter excerpt thing Leander, TX library director fired over pride story hour Congress looking into anti-competitive behavior in digital library market Mackenzie Davis is starring in Station 11 on HBO Max and now I’m mad that I really will have to get HBO Max Foundation Casting More agita re: Split Booker Hero of the week: Patagonia to stop printing galleys See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff throws half-baked ideas about things that should exist in the world of books and reading at Rebecca to see which, if any, aren't horrible. This episode is sponsored by: This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell Where to Begin by Cleo Wade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca lament the double Booker prize and, to be honest, are just sort of bummed out by it and other stories this week. This episode is sponsored by: Win a Blind Date with a Book! Quantum by Patricia Cornwell Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chobsky Best American Short Stories 2019 on Audio Links discussed in this episode: The double Booker..and the backlash George college students burn books by Latina author Major library system says it will boycott Macmillan ebooks Stephen King’s pad to be open for visitors Some Australian book outlets refusing to sell Ronan Farrow book b/c of legal threats Interesting #metoo followup in classrooms w/ some sales data re: Diaz & Alexie See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca try to make sense of this year's double Nobel Prize in Literature. This episode is sponsored by: Tidelands by Philippa Gregory Where to Begin by Cleo Wade The Dolly Factory by Elizabeth Macneal Links discussed in this episode: Two Nobel Prizes Awarded in Literature Ron Charles on the Double Nobel See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices