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All the Books!

BONUS: The Hot List March 2026

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We bring the Hot List out to the main feed to talk about what books are trending, selling, being talked about, being awarded, and in other ways have some heat. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening. Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life. The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:08.6

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0:10.7

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0:14.5

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0:18.6

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0:20.3

Hello, all the books listeners. This is Jeff O'Neill, editor, CEO, podcaster here at Bookwight. You've heard me on this show from time to time in the past. We're doing something new. This episode is called The Hot List, and it's going to be appearing in this feed once a month, also in the BookWryat podcast feed once a month in the middle, late of

0:39.2

the month, in which we're checking in on which books are trending, are selling, have some

0:43.9

buzz, maybe there's adaptation news, maybe there's drama, something else going on there.

0:48.5

We're checking out Rebecca Shinsky and I will be appearing in your feeds.

0:51.8

Listen for us there. You're going to hear us every month and hope you

0:57.2

really enjoy the show. If you got feedback for this episode specifically, shoot us an email at

1:03.1

podcast at bookriot.com. You've got suggestions. We're open to some ideas about how to structure

1:08.8

this. Go ahead and listen to this episode.

1:11.3

Tell us what you think at podcast of bookriot.com. And thank you so much for listening to all the

1:16.7

books and all the bookwryor podcast. Here's the show. This is the bookwryrd podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.

1:27.2

And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And we've got a new old format today, Rebecca. The Hot List makes its first appearance. Maybe we did it as a bring something out from behind the paywall for Patreon a while ago. But this has been a staple of the Patreon offerings we've had for quite some time,

1:44.6

really, from the, almost the beginning.

1:46.3

Did we ever used to do this before that, or do we come up with this?

1:48.8

No, it was new in the Patreon within like the first year that we had been doing bonus content,

1:54.3

but it's a way of capturing, like what's trending, what's in the zeitgeist, sort of

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