AI Disasters, Amazon's Best Books of the Year So Far, and More Book News

Book Riot - The Podcast

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Danika Ellis joins Jeff to talk about a spate of book-related AI disasters, Amazon's list of the best books of the year, Michelle Obama's recently-announced book, and much more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky. Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter. Tailored Book Recommendations has the chops to find the right read for your loved one this Father’s Day. Gift TBR today starting at just $18! Check out Strong Sense of Place wherever you get your podcasts, or visit strongsenseofplace.com Discussed in this Episode: The Book Riot Live at Powell’s July 9th: The Best Books of the Year (so far) Book Riot’s In the Club, In Reading Color, and Our Queerest Shelves Newsletters Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge Salman Rushdie’s attacker sentenced to 25 years Chicago Sun-Times runs AI-generated summer reading list w/ fake books And business insider thing too AI clone books showing up on amazon: Amazon’s Best Books of the Year & Goodreads most popular books of the year so far Michelle Obama’s new book The Two Kinds of Book Auctions James Cameron to adapt THE DEVILS 13 Signs You Used ChatGPT to Write Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.3	This is the bookwryb podcast.
1:00.1	I'm Jeff from Neil.
1:00.8	Rebecca is still out traipsing around some eucolic Eastern European country
1:05.3	that I couldn't pick out on a map if you paid me $10,000.
1:08.8	But I am delighted to have Danica Ellis join me again after
1:12.9	our slightly unhinged but much enjoyed Beach Read episodes that Erica joined us for, Danica.
1:19.0	Yeah.
1:20.0	So welcome back.
1:21.0	I'm glad to be back.
1:23.1	Do you think we're going to be, it's hard not to have a good time with Erica, you know?
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