Literature Books Podcasts

Book Cheat

117 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 548 ratings
The book club podcast where Dave Warneke has read the book so you don't have to. Each episode Dave tells two special guests all about a classic novel or play, and by the end of the show, both you a...

Hardcore Literature

150 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 329 ratings
Welcome to your new favourite book club. If you enjoy deep dives into the greatest books ever written, you will love Hardcore Literature. Provocative poems, evocative epics, and life-changing liter...

Print Run Podcast

174 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 284 ratings
Print Run is a podcast created and hosted by Laura Zats and Erik Hane. Its aim is simple: to have the conversations surrounding the book and writing industries that too often are glossed over by co...

What The Folklore?

645 episodes - Latest episode: about 16 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 218 ratings
A comedy podcast that exposes the absurd side of folklore. Each week we read a story, fix plotholes and create new ones, and invent unintended connections between tales.

ME READING STUFF

361 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 213 ratings
Love letters to the people of the world. Sincerely, Robyn O'Neil

Alpinist

62 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 162 ratings
Since 2002 Alpinist has striven to push creative boundaries with everything we do, from award-winning climbing journalism and creative writing to photography and art. Now, with the Alpinist podcast...

Phil Rossi Media Podcasts

108 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 131 ratings
Free audio fiction, podcasts, and other goodness.

I Will Read for You: The Voice and Writings of Jaiya John

276 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 130 ratings
Voice medicine to soothe your soul, from freedom worker, poet, author, and spoken word artist Dr. Jaiya John. Bedtime bliss. Morning meditation. Daytime peace. Comfort. Calm. Soul food. Come, gathe...

LARB Radio Hour

344 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 120 ratings
The Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour is a weekly show featuring interviews, readings and discussions about all things literary. Hosted by LARB Editors-at-Large Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Er...

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's Fiction Podcast

155 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 115 ratings
Monthly readings and dramatizations of stories by the world’s leading writers of suspense chosen from the magazine’s archives. The full range of the genre is represented in these riveting au...

One True Podcast

130 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 88 ratings
One True Podcast explores all things related to Hemingway, his work, and his world. The show is hosted by Mark Cirino and produced by Michael Von Cannon. Join us in conversation with scholars, art...

The Dead Robots' Society

754 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 86 ratings
Writers talking about writing. Writers talking about publishing. Writers talking about life. Authors Terry Mixon and Paul E Cooley interview, babble, and usually cover a number of disassociated top...

The To Read List Podcast

169 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 86 ratings
Most people have books on their shelves they’ve been meaning to read. Bailey has 125. With this podcast, she and her friends set out to finish their ever-growing To Read Lists.

Novel Conversations

84 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
Novel Conversations is a podcast summarizing the world’s greatest works of classic literature: you get the whole story from cover to cover. If CliffsNotes had an audio-bestfriend, it would be us! E...

Apocalist Book Club

54 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 79 ratings
Welcome to the Apocalist Book Club! Your hosts Nella and Raven are reading all apocalyptic fiction in chronological order. Join the club--you have time now. Updated every 3rd Wednesday of the month.

Mythgard Academy

469 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 76 ratings
Mythgard Academy aims to make engaging discussions of fantasy and science fiction literature free and open to everyone. The Mythgard Academy program features live discussions with Dr. Corey Olsen, ...

Tea or Books?

126 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 76 ratings
Simon (Stuck in a Book) and Rachel (Book Snob) debate the difficult decisions of books and reading.

Deep In Bear Country - A Berenstain Bearcast

676 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Phil Gonzales takes listeners on a chronological journey through the history of Bear Country.

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine's Podcast

73 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 74 ratings
AHMM introduces The Hitchcock Podcast Series. Each month we post a new reading of a favorite story from our archives, selected and introduced by the magazine's editor, Linda Landrigan. For o...

Asimov's Science Fiction

48 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 73 ratings
With every new issue, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine shares one piece of short fiction in podcast form. Enjoy these audio treats from our pages!

Paraphrase

16 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 69 ratings
Paraphrase is a podcast all about literary beginnings, from the first words in novel to the first steps in a career. Host Stephen Fishbach asks novelists to discuss the craft and thematic decisions...

The Goldberry Books Podcast

47 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 66 ratings
Present by the team behind Goldberry Books, an indie bookshop in Concord, NC, the Goldberry Books podcast features conversations about topics of a bookish bent, from interviews with authors to dis...

Books of Some Substance

106 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 61 ratings
The unofficial podcast of literary misfits everywhere who want to engage with books of "substance" (i.e. serious, respected, heavy, philosophical, classic), or at least considered such.

Books Are My People

166 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 58 ratings
Find your next great read. Book recommendations, book news and guests, including top authors and other book enthusiasts who discuss what’s happening in the world of books with a focus on frontlist...

Think About It

251 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
Think About It engages today's leading thinkers in conversations about powerful ideas and how language can change the world.

Textual Tension

150 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
The comedy podcast that unpacks the bananas world of romance novels.

Film, Literature and the New World Order

43 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Film, Literature and the New World Order is a monthly podcast series from CorbettReport.com. In this series, James Corbett of The Corbett Report and a rotating series of guests dissect a different ...

Gender Forking: a Twilight Saga Podcast

88 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Lori and Sam - two Twilight enthusiasts/best friends/sex educators re-read Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga through a lens of gender, sexuality, race, and fandom. 

That Shakespeare Life

317 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 49 ratings
Hosted by Cassidy Cash, That Shakespeare Life takes you behind the curtain and into the real life of William Shakespeare. Get bonus episodes on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...

Accio Politics

245 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 49 ratings
Hosts Adri and Helene bring their lived experience and close-read every chapter of Harry Potter discussing the politics that shape the action of the Wizarding World.