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Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about Book Riot's 2025 Read Harder Challenge, PW's 2025 Salary & Job Survey, a new Gen Z book club, and resurrect the spirit of Annotated for a very cool story about the women who invented the audiobook. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. 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. Discussed in this episode: Check out Zero to Well-Read! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon The 2026 Read Harder Challenge 2025 PW Salary & Jobs Report Let’s check in on The Odyssey Hello Sunshine launches Gen-Z book club Check your sources before you ask a librarian or bookseller for a title AI recommended to you Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipotle sauce and amadea cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.4	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments of the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11am.
0:18.1	Plus and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:21.3	A world on fire. Nations collapsing, ideologies clashing, and ordinary men and women caught in the storm.
0:29.4	Hi, I'm Ray Harris Jr. of the History of World War II podcast. And we'll cover the battles
0:34.5	that shaped the war, from the deserts of North Africa to the frozen forests of the Ardennes,
0:40.4	because history isn't just names and dates. It's people, choices, and consequences at World War II podcast.com.
1:02.1	This is the bookwry podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. Today, we're through the thick of year end. We have some regular news story things to do. I was reading this morning
1:08.1	publisher week's publisher's weekly 2026 adult springview. We're turning the calendar in our head a little bit, Rebecca. We're recording some stuff that's going up next year. Suddenly, it was December and now it's 2026. I know. I got the galley for the new. This is a galley brag. There's an Anne Patchett book coming out in June. I got it this week.
1:28.4	And it was everything that I could do not to be like, you know what, Anne Patchett, let's go this afternoon.
1:34.8	The galley brags right now are some order of the new groff, the Saunders, the Patchett, and there was something else I've been seeing.
1:45.8	Oh, yeah. I've got the Saunders, too.
1:48.0	Yeah, I've got Saunders. I do have Saunders. Anyway, so we're looking forward to those things there.
1:54.0	Let's see, programming notes. We're recording it tomorrow, but I'll go on the Patreon either
1:59.4	tomorrow or early next week. For this show, the best of the rest, which we talk about the things from 2025 that we enjoyed.
2:07.6	That can be movies, TV, music, food, clothes, travel experiences, gadgets, items.
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