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8 Best Books Podcasts of 2024

Updated: Apr 2025


The Book Review

By The New York Times  

Books  Arts  

1 Episodes

Started: Apr 2025

Latest: Few days ago

The world's top authors and critics join host Gilbert Cruz and editors at The New York Times Book Review to talk about the week's top books, what we're reading and what's going on in the literary world. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Listen to this podcast in New York Times Audio, our new iOS app for news subscribers. Download now at nytimes.com/audioapp

Best Episodes of The Book Review:

   

Colum McCann on Undersea Cables and His New Novel "Twist"

In his new novel, “Twist,” the National Book Award-winning Irish writer Colum McCann tells the story of a journalist deep at sea in more ways then one: A man adrift, he accepts a magazine assignment t…

AudioShelf

By Britney and Brad  

Books  Arts  Technology  

310 Episodes

Started: Sept 2016

Latest: Year ago

AudioShelf is a weekly book review Podcast and YouTube channel for lovers of all things literature! Your hosts, Brad and Britney, will discuss many different topics ranging from audiobook reviews, narrator & author interviews, and general industry topics. The episodes are enthusiastic, candid, and above all else, honest.

Best Episodes of AudioShelf:

   

10 of the Best Books of 2020 | Episode 295

2020 was a good year....FOR BOOKS. There were so many wonderful releases and revisits that really helped us make it through. To be frank, there are a lot more books than 10 that really helped us, but …

The New Yorker: Fiction

By WNYC Studios and The New Yorker  

Books  Arts  

218 Episodes

Started: May 2007

Latest: Week ago

A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.

Best Episodes of The New Yorker: Fiction:

   

David Wright Faladé Reads Madeleine Thien

David Wright Faladé joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ [Lu, Reshaping] (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/20/lu-reshaping) ,” by Madeleine Thien, which was published in The New York…

Deadline City's Podcast

By Zoraida & Dhonielle  

Arts  Fiction  

75 Episodes

Started: Oct 2019

Latest: Year ago

Welcome to Deadline City: a podcast and a destination. We are two New York City-based authors who share an office and work on multiple books at a time. Between us, we have 40 books published and under contract, and we’re just getting started. If you’ve seen us on the road, you know how we cut up. We like to have fun and talk about the one thing that is always on our minds: creating books. Publishing is a big scary world to many of us, and our goal is to pull back the curtain on some of the mystery by simply talking about it. In our first season, we want to dig into subjects like YA fiction, editing, reading reviews, burnout. Most of the time, you publish a book and then you’re at a loss for what comes next. How do you navigate the industry and then still manage to write more books? That’s a journey we’re on and know that so many others are on the same road. We hope you come along for the ride.

Best Episodes of Deadline City's Podcast:

   

S6 - Episode 6: Big Idea Barn

Welcome back to Deadline City! This week we are talking about the "Big Idea." But what is a "Big Idea" and who gets to decide that? We pull from our vast publishing experience plus trends we've seen c…

Books and Boba

By Potluck Podcast Collective  

Books  Arts  Society & Culture  

315 Episodes

Started: Sept 2016

Latest: Week ago

Books & Boba is a book club dedicated to books written by Asian and Asian American authors. We cover a wide range of genres including contemporary, historical fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, YA, nonfiction, thrillers, graphic novels, and memoirs.

Best Episodes of Books and Boba:

   

#308 - The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali

On this episode, we discuss our March 2025 book club pick [The Stationery Shop ] (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-stationery-shop-marjan-kamali/6693131?aid=11692&ean=9781982107499&listref=book-club-p…

How to Be Fine

By Stitcher & Jolenta Greenberg, Kristen Meinzer  

Society & Culture  

368 Episodes

Started: Mar 2017

Latest: Few days ago

Half advice show, half reality show. Join podcast besties Kristen Meinzer and Jolenta Greenberg as they seek advice from experts, and then put that advice to the test. All this season they’re focusing on the loneliness epidemic and the struggles of friendship - from making new friends to breaking up with BFFs. Their goal? To help get you a little closer to fine. The first ten seasons of Kristen and Jolenta's other show By the Book are also in this feed. To hear back episodes, just scroll down! And to hear new episodes of By The Book, go to patreon.com/listentobythebook

Best Episodes of How to Be Fine:

   

How to Make Friends Post College

Why does it seem so much easier to make friends when we’re younger? And how can we make friends more easily as we become adults? Hope Kelaher, author of Here to Make Friends: How To Make Friends as an…

The Great Books

By National Review  

Books  Arts  Education  

11 Episodes

Started: Jan 2025

Latest: Few days ago

Hillsdale College’s John J. Miller discusses classic works within the Western literary canon.

Best Episodes of The Great Books:

   

Episode 367: 'Tender Is the Night' by F. Scott Fitzgerald

John J. Miller is joined by Titus Techera of the American Cinema Foundation to discuss 'Tender Is the Night' by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Oprah’s Book Club

By Oprah and Apple Books  

Society & Culture  

9 Episodes

Started: Sept 2020

Latest: Year ago

Oprah Winfrey and author Isabel Wilkerson, take listeners through the 8 Pillars of Caste, featured in the Oprah’s Book Club selection "Caste: The Origins of our Discontents."

Best Episodes of Oprah’s Book Club:

   

Caste: Pillar 8

Part seven of Oprah’s discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson and readers of the book,Caste: The Origins of ourDiscontents.The penultimate episode in the eight-part series focus…

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