Books Podcasts

Something Scary

68 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5.8K ratings
Do you wanna hear something scary? Join Sapphire and Markeia every week as they bring you the creepiest ghost stories, urban legends, and folktales. For advertising opportunities please email Podca...

Potterless

119 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5K ratings
Join Mike Schubert, a grown man reading the Harry Potter series for the first time, as he sits down with HP fanatics to poke fun at plot holes, make painfully incorrect predictions, and rant about ...

Fictional

32 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 4.2K ratings
Classic lit with a modern tone, every other week. From the creators of Myths and Legends, comes an altogether same-but-different podcast set in the world of classic lit. These are the stories of D...

Bad On Paper

100 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
Your new internet besties give you a weekly dose of books, banter, and folks you should be following. Join 30-something reading enthusiasts and real-life best friends Grace Atwood and Becca Freeman...

Knifepoint Horror

52 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
Tales of supernatural suspense by Soren Narnia. Music by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com, unless otherwise noted. These stories are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unpo...

Selected Shorts

25 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Your favorite actors bringing great stories to life.

Overdue

411 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. Join Andrew and Craig each week as they tackle a new title from their backlog. Classic literature, obscure plays, goofy murder myst...

Read Me Romance

231 episodes - Latest episode: about 5 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
HEA on the go! Original, never-before-heard romance audiobooks from your favorite authors, narrated by professionals and presented for your listening pleasure every, single week! We’ll begin a new,...

Binge Mode: Harry Potter

70 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
Jump on your broom and join The Ringer’s Mallory Rubin and Jason Concepcion as they take their signature deep dive into 'Harry Potter,' covering all the books and movies as well as the exte...

PotterCast: The Harry Potter podcast since 2005

325 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Join PotterCast in a continuing adventure through J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World. For eleven years PotterCast has remained your trusted source for discussion, celebration, and interviews with creat...

Nerdette

243 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Interviews with your favorite (or soon-to-be favorite) authors, artists, astronauts and more. From WBEZ.

Little Stories for Tiny People: Anytime and bedtime stories for kids

75 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Little Stories for Tiny People is a kids' podcast featuring original kids' stories and poems that will delight the tiny people in your life. Perfect for bleary-eyed parents, innovative preschool te...

Small Town Horror

43 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★ - 881 ratings
Ryan Jennings ran from the horrors of Crayton 18 years ago. Now is is coming back to face his greatest fears and search for answers.

Giants of History

89 episodes - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★★ - 752 ratings
Here at Giants of History, we produce a weekly biographical podcast that explores history’s most fascinating figures from cradle to grave. In each series, we strive to highlight the best stories a...

Red All Over: A Handmaid's Tale Podcast

79 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 669 ratings
Fake news, oppressive patriarchy, and an overall impending sense of doom: Join us as "Aunt" Kelly Anneken & Molly "Ofmitchell" Sanchez discuss this and more in Red All Over, a podcast that explores...

Literature and History

70 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 566 ratings
This podcast is an introduction to Anglophone literature, from ancient times to the present, done by a Ph.D. with lots of books and musical instruments. A typical episode offers a summary of a work...

Story Grid Podcast

185 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 542 ratings
Click here to Subscribe in iTunes. Helping you become a better writer. Join Shawn Coyne, author of Story Grid and a top editor for 25+ years, and Tim Grahl, struggling writer, as they discuss the...

UNspoiled! Harry Potter

139 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 530 ratings
Natasha and Roshawn read the Harry Potter series one chapter at a time. Natasha knows everything, Roshawn knows nothing!

Tom vs. Comics vs. Hate

520 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 523 ratings
Join Tom Katers as he talks about Barrry Allen...alot.

8 Bit Book Club

62 episodes - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 477 ratings
The only book club that makes you dumber! Join Brian Murphy, Emily Axford, and Caldwell Tanner for a weekly chat about video game novels.

Annotated

61 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 466 ratings
An audio documentary series about books, reading, and language.

Thug Notes: Get Lit

11 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 462 ratings
Literary OG Sparky Sweets, PhD counts down the greatest works in the lit game with a fresh perspective – blending top-shelf literature with street certified insights. From the greatest playas to th...

Episodes – Witch, Please

61 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 428 ratings
A fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world by two lady scholars

Quarter Share

17 episodes - Latest episode: almost 13 years ago - ★★★★★ - 426 ratings
A Trader's Tale from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper : Book 1 When Ishmael Wang is orphaned by a flitter crash, he must make some hard decisions about how to survive in a Company-owned univers...

Infected

22 episodes - Latest episode: about 11 years ago - ★★★★★ - 420 ratings
Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the g...

Audio Book Club

127 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 418 ratings
Join Slate's critics for monthly discussions of new and important books. Read the book club selections and then listen in as our critics hold lively - and sometimes heated - debates about the works...

Return Home

116 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 409 ratings
Return Home is a serialized comedy/horror story that follows Jonathan, Buddy, and Ami as they unravel the mysteries of Melancholy Falls. Isn't time for you to return home?

Shadowmagic

31 episodes - Latest episode: about 13 years ago - ★★★★★ - 401 ratings
"Hi, my name is Conor. Other than my father being a bit of an eccentric lunatic, my life was pretty normal until I got attacked in my living room and whisked away to Tir na Nog, the mystical land ...

Beautiful Writers Podcast

54 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 393 ratings
Listen in as author Linda Sivertsen (aka Book Mama) brings together the world’s most beloved bestselling authors for monthly chats on writing, publishing, deal-making, spirituality, activism, and t...

Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast

182 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 369 ratings
A retelling of the classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms in a way that’s more accessible to a Western audience. See 3kingdomspodcast.com for more.