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Book Riot

News in the world of books and reading, including hot industry releases, adaptations, publishing industry events, and more with Book Riot’s Jeff O’Neal and Rebecca Schinsky.
Book Riot is the largest independent editorial book site in North America and home to a host of media, from podcasts to newsletters to original content, all designed around diverse readers and across all genres.

Book Riot - The Podcast

Jeff and Rebecca preview summer adaptations to check out this year.

As we move through 2026, we want to make sure Book Riot remains your go-to destination for all things bookish. Whether you’re here for the curated recommendations, the latest industry news, or our deep dives into reading culture, your feedback informs our media kit and how we represent this community. It will also shape our content and make Book Riot a place you want to be.

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2026 Summer Adaptation Preview

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the full Guardian Best Novels of All-Time List, The International Book Prize Winner, a whole rat's nest of AI-related stories, recent reading, and more.

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Discussed in this episode:

Kobo is integrating StoryGraph

Judge delays payout of $1.5 billion settlement in Anthropic AI case

James Daunt open to selling AI-written books in Barnes & Noble stores

Commonwealth Prize honors short story collections that appears to have been written with AI

Book on truth in the age of AI contains quotes written by AI

Audio in Color nonprofit grants funding to independent romance authors to self-pub their audiobooks

Amazon ending support for Kindles from 2012 and prior (thanks to listener Carl for the tip) 

And here’s how some Kindle users are working around it

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AI is Making Reading Really Messy.

Jeff and Rebecca talk about what books are making waves as summer gets rolling.

As we move through 2026, we want to make sure Book Riot remains your go-to destination for all things bookish. Whether you’re here for the curated recommendations, the latest industry news, or our deep dives into reading culture, your feedback informs our media kit and how we represent this community. It will also shape our content and make Book Riot a place you want to be.

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The Hot List for May 2026

Jeff and Rebecca note The Guardian's new collaborative list of the 100 greatest novels of all time, ponder PRH's delivery of "a strong business performance, updated our Fourth Wing Ever Gets Adapted odds, and more.

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Discussed in this episode:

The Guardian running down the 100 best novels of all time

PRH reports strong first quarter

Amazon has ordered the Fourth Wing adaptation to series, no casting news yet

Florence Pugh to star in Midnight Library adaptation

Margo’s Got Money Troubles picked up for season 2

Good Omens is back to wrap things up without Neil Gaiman

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

Jeff and Rebecca wrap up recommendation season.

Discussed in this episode:

The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 

Julie Otsuka

Susan Choi

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

The Hike by Drew Magary

The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy

Kin by Tayari Jones, go back to 

Fates & Furies by Groff

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Siracusa by Delia Ephron

Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

From Scratch by Tembi Locke

Beautiful Runs by Jess Walter 

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Go Like Hell

The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James

By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Hemingway

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Unbound by Steph Jagger

Riverman by Ben McGrath

In the Shadow of the Mountain

So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder 

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez

Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham

Life in the Three Dimensions by Shegihiro Oishi 

So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport 

Congratulations, By the Way by George Saunders

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

The List of Things That Will Not Change 

The Vanderbeerkers of 141st Street By Karina Yan Glaser

Dragon Pearl

The Eyes of the Impossible

Daughter of the Deep

The Story That Cannot Be Told

Who is Government by Michael Lewis

Two Women Living Together by Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reily

The Sparrow, 

Wild Dark Shore 

Whidbey

The Dream Hotel

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon 

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers

Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

Interpreter of Maladies,

Tenth of December 

Almost Famous Women

Lost in the City by Edward P Jones

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler 

Eat a Peach by David Chang 

Life is Meals by James & Kay Salter

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J Ryan Stradal

Go Gentle by Maria Semple

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Pincher Martin by William Golding

Black No More by George Schuyler

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The English Understand Wool by helen dewitt

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel

Still Life with Woodpecker by Tim Robbins

Transcription by Ben Lerner

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Butcher's Crossing by John Williams

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

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the 2026 Pulitzer prizes, best books of the year so far, summer book previews, and more of the week's book news.

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Discussed in this episode:

Pulitzer winners

NYT best books of the year so far

5 publishers and Scott Turow sue Meta & Mark Zuckerberg over AI copyright infringement

TikTok releases first BookTok bestseller list (note, UK only)

PW’s big summer preview

Greta Gerwig’s Narnia moves to 2027

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The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes

Jeff and Rebecca try to pick the It Book of May 2026.

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The It Books of May 2026

Part 1 of our Spring 2026 Moms, Dads, and Grads recommendations extravaganza.

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Discussed in this episode:

Emma Straub

Taylor Jenkins Reid 

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

Go Gentle by Maria Semple

Marie Helene Bertino

God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Abby Jimenez

Sarah McLean

The Hacienda by Isabel Canas

Claire Lombardo 

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead

Percival Everett. Maybe also 

Matrix by Lauren Groff. 

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Small World by Jonathan Evison,

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Behind the Bedroom Wall by Larry Woiwode

Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself by Glynnis MacNicol

Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom

This Land is Your Land by Beverly Gage

The Women I Think About at Night by Mia Kankimaki

James by Percival Everett

Han Kang

Katie Kitamura

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

 Palaver by Bryan Washington

Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante

Light Years by James Salter

Splinters by Leslie Jamison

Literary Theory by Terry Eagleton 

Professing Literature by Gerald Graff

Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed edited by Megan Daum

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

Prof. Laura McGrath joins Jeff to talk about her new book, Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction. Literary agents try to stay out of the spotlight, but they shape what you read. We talk about why agents came into being, how they have developed over time, and how American fiction wouldn't be the same without them.

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Why Literary Agents Matter with Laura McGrath

Vanessa Diaz sits in for Rebecca to talk with Jeff about The Women's Prize shortlist, Practical Magic 2, the most banned books of 2025, how human it is for people to know that reading is good for them and still not do it, recent reading, and more.

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Discussed in this episode:

Women’s Prize Shortlist

World Book Day Study aka nothing means anything

2026 Hugo Awards finalists

top 11 banned books of 2025 (ALA)

The Crystal Light collab, because sure, why not (wider trend of ‘interesting’ collabs - Hellmans’ Mayo, Yankee Candle, Prego - see block in flagship )

Practical Magic 2 trailer (vanessa hyperventilating)

The Pitt’s Dr Abbott (Shawn Hatosy) voicing audio erotica on Quinn app

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

Randy Winston of The Black List joins Rebecca and Jeff to preview the spring's most interesting literary adaptations.
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Spring 2025 Adaptation Preview

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