Literature Books Podcasts

Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr

340 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 47 ratings
A weekly podcast about young adult literature, their film and television adaptations and everything in between. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Terrible Book Club

185 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★ - 46 ratings
Join Chris & Paris every other Tuesday to discover if you really can judge a book by its hideous cover, bad title, or weird synopsis. Support TBC on Patreon

Beyond the Next Chapter with Whitney Clark

117 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 45 ratings
Are you an avid reader looking for your next great read? Or maybe you're someone who wants to fall in love with books? Look no further! Our podcast is the perfect place for all kinds of readers. Wi...

Ladies of the Fright

84 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
For writers and readers who like it dark. We talk about our horror and other dark-themed books. In-depth literary analysis of dark fiction. Conversations with authors, editors, and other industry p...

Get Lit Podcast

321 episodes - Latest episode: about 7 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
"Welcome back to Get Lit, the literary podcast where we discuss famous works of literature and the authors who wrote them..."

Book of the Mouse Club

102 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 36 ratings
Book of the Mouse Club is an Unofficial Disney podcast that explores books about Disney, its history, films, theme parks and more. Join us for discussions about books, interviews with authors and b...

Two Month Review

260 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 35 ratings
Each “season” of Two Month Review highlights a new and amazing work of world literature, reading it slowly over the course of eight to nine episodes. Featuring a rotating set of literary guests—fro...

Blooms & Barnacles

152 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
A blog and podcast that discuss James Joyce's Ulysses from a non-academic point of view. Less snooty, more movie references.

What the Austen? Podcast

117 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
What the Austen? is a Jane Austen podcast hosted by Izzy Meakin, a passionate life long Janeite. Every other week Izzy is joined by a fellow Austen enthusiast as they take a deep dive into Jane Au...

Ditch Diggers

249 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Treat your writing like a blue collar job. Doctors don't get doctor block and ditch diggers don't get ditch digger block, and working writers can't get writer's block. Business and humor.

Act YA Age

65 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
Follow along as two adults dive into young adult books and series in order to unpack the universal appeal of the genre that transcends age and gender barriers.

Bookshelfie: Women’s Prize Podcast

179 episodes - Latest episode: about 17 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Every week, join Vick Hope, multi-award winning TV and BBC Radio 1 presenter, author and journalist, and her inspirational guests as they celebrate the best books written by women. They'll discuss ...

Bri Books

172 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
Bri Books is the podcast that encourages, entertains and enlightens by engaging with the ideas on and off the pages. We serve a community of ambitious, curious people hungry for conversations and b...

Smug Book Club

65 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
Tired of the same-old serious book analysis in podcasts? Well, we were. To solve this, Ryan and Callum started Smug Book Club. A podcast that gets literature 'lit' and puts the 'ok' into books. E...

The Troubadour Podcast

294 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
"It is the honourable characteristic of Poetry that its materials are to be found in every subject which can interest the human mind." William Wordsworth The Troubadour Podcast invites you into a ...

Busy Dads Do Sci-Fi

79 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Kevin and George are busy dads. They do Sci-Fi. New podcast episode every 2 weeks.

On the Road with Penguin Classics

37 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
On the Road with Penguin Classics is a podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author and editor Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to exp...

Save Me From My Shelf

74 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
We're friends and academics who take classic literature off its pedestal by making fun of it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NovelClass

69 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Every month, host Dave Pezza and an all-star guest pick a book, give it a read, and record their qualms, praises, and bad jokes. Nothing is off the table, and we’re mostly sober. If you’ve had the ...

Wine, Women and Words

344 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
Most people pair their wine with food but here, at Wine, Women and Words we pair our wine with books. Join us each week as we chat with authors, read books and of course, drink wine!

Fiction Fans: We Read Books and Other Words Too

182 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
Join two casual readers as they completely ignore their academic backgrounds and talk about the books they loved, and sometimes the ones they didn’t. Includes segments like “Journey to the Center o...

Mike Luoma's Glow-in-the-Dark Radio

306 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Listen in as author and radio host Mike Luoma reads from his books. Enjoy the free audio adventures! http://glowinthedarkradio.com 

BookSmitten

80 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Seeing a hopeful, human world through children's literature. Hosted by authors Kelly J. Baptist, Jack Cheng, Patrick Flores-Scott, and Heather Shumaker – your book smitten crew. We cover the whole ...

What a Circus

13 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
"What a Circus" is a monthly podcast that invites you to join in on our high school book club. Listen to teens as they read and discuss literature and the connections to their own lives. We read on...

Litquake's Lit Cast

130 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
Litquake is San Francisco's nine-day literary festival for booklovers, complete with cutting-edge panel discussions, unique cross-media events, and hundreds of readings. Litquake's Lit Cast is our ...

Swords & Starships

119 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
Join Brittney and Joshua, broadcasting from the Coos Bay Public Library, as they chat about their favorite Fantasy and Science Fiction reads, play games, debate movies, gush over fandoms and recom...

Whiskey and the Weird

73 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
Jessica, Damien and Ryan deep dive in to the amazing Tales of the Weird series published by the British Library. Each season covers one book in the series; each episode will tackle one story in tha...

This Podcast Will Change Your Life.

369 episodes - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
This Podcast Will Change Your Life is a long-form interview show hosted by writer, teacher, trainer, coach and content creator Ben Tanzer and housed at This Blog Will Change Your Life. The show foc...

Lit Sh*t

138 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to Lit Sh*t. Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. We're three friends who love reading and talking. We talk about books and gossip about the characters as if they are real people.

Heroes & Thieves

73 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
A creative world building exercise led by brothers Michael and Greg Starks, in which they attempt to build fantasy and sci-fi worlds every week using only three words as the basis. Good, bad, and ...