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Book Riot - The Podcast

The Best-Selling Publishers of the Year, NBCC Finalists, Adapted Screenplay Oscar Noms, and more.

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists, which publishers had the most best-sellers in 2025, Katie Couric's book club, and usher in the era of The Big 6. 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 and its brand new companion newsletter, and follow along on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. The Book Riot Podcast Patreon NBCC Awards  finalists Libro.fm has launched an annual subscription Ranking the bestselling adult publishers of 2025 Katie Couric launches book club James Daunt sees bright future for Barnes & Noble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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1:03.6

This is the book drive podcast.

1:05.2

I'm Jeff O'Neill.

1:06.2

And I'm Rebecca Schinsky.

1:07.7

And today, you know, almost did that today is January 2nd, 2026. And we haven't done a date

1:13.0

intro in like four years. So I don't know why that got spat out. On me, because I put 25

1:19.9

into the show notes when I was putting the date for today. We're, we're on a journey here.

1:25.8

I committed some crimes in our monthly financial call check-in that we had the company

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