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Book Riot - The Podcast

The Beach Read Episode

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jeff is joined by Book Riot editors Danika Ellis and Erica Ezeifedi to talk about what makes a beach read, beach reads picks, and memorable beach reading moments. 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) The Best Beach Reads of All Time The Hey YA Podcast Book Riot's In the Club, In Reading Color, and Our Queerest Shelves Newsletters Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the bookwry podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. Rebecca's not with me today. I've got Erica and

1:02.5

Danica with me to talk about, I mean, just the best beach reads of all time. Is it all time?

1:07.6

That's what we're doing, the three of us. Just a little something. You know, we put it

1:11.7

together. It's fine. It's casual. So we had a big piece feature. I don't even what do you call

1:17.1

internet units of this magnitude that we put together. Contributors, we wrote a bunch of blurbs

1:21.3

for summer reading season here. And we're going to do a couple things. We're going to talk about what we think makes a good beach read, maybe memorable beach reads of our own. And then I think all three of us did multiple

1:32.3

blurbs at least for this piece. So we can highlight some of our own picks there. Let's see,

1:38.2

before we get into that, a couple programming notes. We're doing our next live recording of the

1:43.8

bookwry podcast at Powell's July 9th. We're doing the best books of the year so far. Rebecca's coming out. Vanessa Diaz is going to join us. And then Keith Mossman, who is the book buyer extraordinaire at Powell's, is going to join us over there. Tickets will be in the show notes there. Over on first edition, I'm going to cross post to this feed, I think, because

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