Book Riot - The Podcast

Jeff and Rebecca enjoy The Odyssey afterglow, lament AI slop biographies, cover a bunch of adaptation news, recent reading, and much more.

Jeff gets off some takes before the show gets going to talk about Amazon’s best-selling books of all-time, a formidable new AI lawsuit, sales of THE ODYSSEY editions, recent reading, and much more.

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Discussed in this episode:

Emily Wilson’s comments on Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey

Book Riot’s best adaptations of the century so far

Judge approves settlement in Anthropic copyright case

Scammer caught after publishing 5,000 AI slop biographies

New Taylor Jenkins Reid novel in March (same day as Percival Everett)

Apple already has the rights to adapt Rebecca Yarros’s next (non-Fourth Wing) novel

Sony picks up The Silent Patient for fast-tracked adaptation

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Jeff gets off some takes before the show gets going to talk about Amazon's best-selling books of all-time, a formidable new AI lawsuit, sales of THE ODYSSEY editions, recent reading, and much more.

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Discussed in this episode:

Amazon’s 50 bestselling books of all time

Publishers launch new suit against Google for using digital to train Gemini

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Jeff and Rebecca go over what books are selling, being talked about, and otherwise generating a little heat this month.

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Jeff and Rebecca note the fever-pitch buzz for Nolan's The Odyssey, before talking about the state of book sales, mention some new book announcements, discuss recent reading, and much more.

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Discussed in this episode:

Book sales flat in H1

New Leslie Jamison novel next year!

The Millions Summer Book Preview

The Most Read Kindle Books of 2026 So Far

Booker Prize award money doubles with new funder

Brandon Sanderson’s theory of the 20-year dragon nostalgia cycle

Hachette employees unionize

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Nolan's The Odyssey looms. Today we are sharing the episode we did on The Odyssey for Zero to Well-Read. Be careful out there on the wine-dark sea.

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