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This is a preview of our most recent bonus episode for Patreon members: The January 2025 Hot List Check-in. This is where Jeff offers Rebecca a list of the books he thinks are the current hot books and she tells him he is wrong. Or right. Since Patreon episodes aren't in the main feed, there is some occasional cursing, and in this preview, Jeff had to get out the horn-bleep effect. If you enjoyed this, please consider becoming a paid member of the Book Riot podcast Patreon. We have fun trying to make things you enjoy.
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about the very, very ugly details emerging about Neil Gaiman, 2024's best-selling books, audio-first publishing, and more. Then, Kelly Jensen and Kathleen Schmidt talk about the price of books and what effects they have.
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Discussed in this Episode:
Details emerge in sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman
Simon & Schuster launches audio-first imprint helmed by Jason Pinter
Print book sales saw small increase in 2024
Steven Soderbergh read more books than I did last year
Publishing Confidential
What Will Potential Tariffs Mean for Comics?
The Little Book of Goat Yoga
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Rebecca Yarros
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Aflame by Pico Iyer
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante
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Randy Winston of The Black List joins Rebecca and Jeff to preview the spring's most interesting literary adaptations.
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about their experience reading Fourth Wing. A word of caution: the book didn't work for them. If hearing honest, free-ranging discussions of the specifics of why is going to be unpleasant, this might be one for you to skip.
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We kick off the new year in book news by talking about Book Riot's own list of the most anticipated books of 2025, a look at the whiteout that was the 2024 Goodreads Choices Awards before talking about All Fours (Jeff read it). And then some very brief reactions to Fourth Wing (we both read it).
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Check out new collections on Patreon
Book Riot’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025
The Unbearable Whiteness of the Goodreads Choice Awards
Federal judge strikes down portion of Arkansas book banning law that could have put librarians and booksellers in jail
Christopher Nolan’s next film is an adaptation of The Odyssey
Constance Grady digs into whether there’s actually a crisis of men not reading
Jenna Bush Hager launches imprint with PRH
Katy Waldman Goes Deep on the Romantasy Plagiarism Case
All Fours by Miranda July
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
The Heart of Winter
Life in Three Dimensions by Shigehiro Oishi
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Jason Blitman of the Gays Reading podcast joins Jeff and Rebecca to talk about more books to watch for in 2025. Jeff and Rebecca also joined Jason on Gays Reading for more picks in this episode.
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Jeff and Rebecca ring in the new year with another It Book knockout round. A storm gathers. Can anyone sail through it?
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The 2025 Read Harder Challenge is live
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
We Do Not Part by Han Kang
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
The Loves of My Life by Edmund White
Dare I Say It by Naomi Watts
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth by Markus Zusak
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
The Crash by Frieda McFadden
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
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A preview of our 2025 Winter Preview Draft on our Patreon. Jeff and Rebecca draft 10 books each and then ask listeners to vote on which list they want to win, for whatever reason they like.
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Rebecca sits down with Book Riot's managing editor Vanessa Diaz to discuss Marielle Heller's adaptation of Nightbitch starring Amy Adams and Scoot McNairy. Nightbitch is streaming now on Hulu.
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Marielle Heller Explores the Feral Side of Motherhood
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Jeff and Rebecca preview the books of 2025 (that we know about) that will be on the reading world's radar in 2025.
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The 2025 Read Harder Challenge is live
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A little teaser for our Best of the Rest of 2024 episode over on the Book Riot podcast Patreon. Rebecca and Jeff talk about their favorite non-book things from 2024, a few of which might be of interest to other humans.
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A preview of the first-ever EMERGENCY bonus episode for Patreon subscribers. Obama released his favorite books of 2024. Let's just say there were surprises.
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Jeff and Rebecca look back at the books & stories that defined 2024.
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Book Riot’s TBR
The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram
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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:
Remember the moment when some people thought Taylor Swift wrote Argylle?
PRH dismisses Reagan Arthur & Lisa Lucas
NYT’s top 100 books of the century so far
NaNoWriMo’s PR fail with AI
only 20k serious readers of lit fic?
Coming Attractions:
Spielberg in talks to produce James adaptation directed by Taika Waititi
Liz Moore signs Sony deal for Long Bright River & God of the Woods
Meryl Streep in adaptation of The Corrections
Florence Pugh in East of Eden for Netflix
The Black List expands to fiction & highlights publishing’s most-wanted adaptations,
Book banning news:
Idaho library to become adults-only
High school shuts down library due to book banning law
Big Five and Authors Guild sue over Florida law
PRH hires a public policy role
Many states have banned book bans
In memoriam:
Daniel Kahneman
John Gierach
Edna O’Brien
Francine Pascal
Nikki Giovanni
Paul Auster
The #metoo trifecta of Cormac McCarthy, Alice Munro, and Neil Gaiman
The robots are coming:
authors sue Anthropic
Roxane Gay & Margaret Atwood among authors helping create AI reading guides
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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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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Jeff and Rebecca take a look at the hits, misses, and favorites from the year in literary adaptations.
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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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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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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
Blackpill
Ghostroots by Pemi Aguda
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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
What's Next
Nightbitch
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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
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
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