Book Riot - The Podcast

The It Books of August 2026

Emily Wilson's Pan of Nolan's THE ODYSSEY, Obama's Summer Reading List, AI Drama, and more.

UPDATED The Latest Research on Gen Z's Reading Habits

THE ODYSSEY Afterglow, Slop Biographies, Best Adaptations of the Century, and Much More.

Amazon's 50 Best-Selling Books of All-Time, a New FOURTH WING (sorta), a Fierce AI Lawsuit, and much more.

The Hot List for July 2026

Book Sales Down so Far in 2026, THE ODYSSEY Hype is Peaking, and more.

THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER

Big Time Book Announcements, PW's Fall Preview, the AI State of Play, and More.

The It Books of July 2026

How Reading Became Sexy (but We're Doing Less of It)

The Best Books of 2026 So Far

What 20,000 AI-Generated Stories Have in Common

The Hot List for June 2026

The Publishing Pie is Getting Bigger, But Not Enough to Keep Up with The Slices

The Messy Power Couple of the Harlem Renaissance

Best Books of the Year So Far Lists Have Begun. PLUS: Dr. Maria McCauley of the ALA

The It Books of June 2026

The Summer Slowdown is Here

2026 Summer Adaptation Preview

AI is Making Reading Really Messy.

The Hot List for May 2026

A New Best Novels of All-Time List, PRH's "Strong Business Performance, and More.

2026 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Show, Part 2

The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes

The It Books of May 2026

Spring 2026 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Show, Part 1

Why Literary Agents Matter with Laura McGrath

People Know Reading is Good and Still Don't Do It.

Ranking the Fiction Pultizer Prize Winners of the Century So Far.

Surprising (Maybe) Data About American Reading Habits

The Hot List: April 2026

MCD Shutters, Audible's Story House, and More of the Week's Book News.

You Have Heard of Lord Byron. But You Have No Idea.

Book Sales Are Softening, NBCC Winners, and More Book News.

The It Books of April 2026

The Lambda Literary Awards, Messy Internet Discourse, the Latest A.I. Panic, and More

Alien Jazz Hands for PROJECT HAIL MARY

Wait, How Many Books Were Published in 2025? PLUS: Louise Erdrich!

The Hot List March 2026

Blume is a Big "No Comment" on her biography, ACOTAR adaptation takes a step backward, and more.

Markus Zusak on THE BOOK THIEF at 20

UPDATED The Audiobook Wars Rage On, Big ACOTAR Announcement, and More

The It Books of March 2026

A Proposed Nationwide Book Ban, The NYPL's Most Checked Out Books of All-Time, and more

How Much Are You Like The Characters You Read About?

DNF Shelves Coming to Goodreads and The War For Your Ears Continues

Ranking Amazon's Best Books of the Century

Another Book Section Bites the Dust and A Romance Writer Dances with the AI Devil

Power Ranking the Books of 2016