Book Riot - The Podcast

Jeff and Rebecca talk about book-adjacent Oscar news, the staggering number of books published in 2025, adaptation news, and more. Then, they are joined by Louise Erdrich to talk about her new short story collection, Python's Kiss.

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Discussed in this episode:

 Here are books to read if you loved SINNERS

Jane Fonda to star in adaptation of The Correspondent

Lord of the Flies series coming to Netflix May 4

Judge in YA romantasy plagiarism case: “hot, sexy, dangerous boys…cannot be copyrighted”

Book output topped four million 2025

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We bring the Hot List out to the main feed to talk about what books are trending, selling, being talked about, being awarded, and in other ways have some heat.

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Jeff and Rebecca try to read the tea-leaves from Judy Blume's biography silence, ACOTAR rights reversion, and more of the week's book news.

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Discussed in this episode:

Judy Blume is declining to comment on Mark Oppenheimer’s new biography of her

That ACOTAR series is really never going to happen

Sarah Polley is directing an adaptation of The Bell Jar starring Billie Eilish

New CEO of S & S announced

10,000 authors publish empty book to protest AI

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Book Riot Senior Editor Kelly Jensen talks to author Markus Zusak on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of The Book Thief.

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Jeff and Rebecca talk about the big ACOTAR update, Audible dropping the price on its standard product, market trends, recent reading, and much more.

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Discussed in this episode:

⁠Shout-out to this Aeon piece about how we’re thinking about the decline of literacy wrong⁠

⁠Sarah J. Maas announces next 2 ACOTAR books⁠

⁠Market trends from Circana’s report to booksellers⁠

⁠Audible has launched a Standard Membership Plan for $8.99/month⁠

⁠2026 Audie Award winners⁠

⁠Utah has banned 4 more books from public schools⁠

⁠Lee & Low pauses diversity baseline survey to focus on fighting book bans⁠

⁠First comprehensive report on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores⁠

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