Making a Case for Supporting Independent Media, Way Early Award Nominations, and More
Vanessa Diaz joins Jeff as he workshops a couple of takes, before they dive into IMAX scalping, way early award longlists, and more of the week's book news.
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Discussed in this Episode:
The Odyssey IMAX Showtimes Sell Out Instantly as Scalpers List Resales Higher Than $200
The Center For Fiction Releases the Longlist for 2025 First Fiction Prize in July, because sure
The Book Industry Study Group conducting survey on how AI is changing publishing
Spotify expanding audiobooks plans, language is confusing
Audiobook walking clubs?
Deep Historical Survey on Gender Split of Who Writes Fiction
The Bewitching by Silvia Morreno-Garcia
Salt Bones by Jennifer Givhan
Algospeak by Adam Aleksic
Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart
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Power Ranking the Books of 1995
It's as far back as we go with these historical rankings--30 years to 1995. Strange year, that sees Jeff pick a single copy of an individual book in his top 10. Christian dystopias, fairy tale retellings, genre-changing memoirs: there are spots for all of them in our top 10s.
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Mid-Year Check-in Time. PLUS: Rodney Freeman on ARE YOU A LIBRARIAN?
Jeff and Rebecca talk about a bunch of mid-year lists: best-ofs, best-selllers, and more. Then Erica Ezeifedi talks to Rodney Freeman, former librarian and producer of the documentary Are You a Librarian, about the rich & overlooked history of Black librarianship in the US.
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Discussed in this episode:
Book Riot’s best books of 2025 so far
The top 10 bestselling books of the year so far
Bookshop’s bestsellers of the year so far
Constance Grady explores whether there actually is a crisis with kids’ reading
Sarah J. Maas has completed the first draft of the 6th ACOTAR book
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The Top Ten Books to Read to Be Well-Read
Jeff and Rebecca try to answer the fun but impossible question of what are the top 10 books someone might read first on their path to becoming well-read. This was originally a Patreon-only members post. To get more like this, subscribe to the Book Riot podcast Patreon.
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The Best Books of the Year So Far: Live at Powell's!
Jeff and Rebecca are joined by Book Riot's Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz and Powell's Book Buyer Keith Mosman to talk about their favorite books of the year so far.
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