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Book Riot - The Podcast

National Book Award Announces Host, B&N Discover Prize, and more book news.

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News Commentary, News, Books, Tv & Film

4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca applaud the news that Jeff Hiller will be hosting the National Book Awards in November before talking about more book news from the week. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network. Check out Zero to Well-Read! Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Maggie by Katie Yee wins the Barnes & Noble Discover Award Jeff Hiller will host the National Book Awards First book acquired from The Black List Texas school district bars students from school libraries The Millions fall book preview i Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:22.1

This is the book drive podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.

1:24.7

And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.

1:27.3

Kind of a regular news week, Rebecca,

1:29.1

not, not huge awards, not kind of quiet, but we are in the fall season where we're getting

1:34.7

end of year announcements. Um, the book banning and censorship landscape continues to be tumultuous,

1:43.8

I guess would be the euphemistic way of putting it.

1:46.9

Continues to be a thing we have to talk about.

1:49.4

Yeah.

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