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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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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The Black List

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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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Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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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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Book Riot’s TBR

The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram

The Book Riot Podcast Patreon

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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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Book Riot’s TBR

The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram

The Book Riot Podcast Patreon

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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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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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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