Books Podcasts

True Hauntings & Scary Stories

145 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 128 ratings
True Hauntings & Scary Stories is a weekly podcast that alternates between lighthearted and spooky conversations/interviews and fictional short scary stories, written and read by published horror a...

Tea & Strumpets: A Regency Romance Review

161 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
Tune in to hear two friends discuss all the steamy (and sometimes tepid) details of the regency romance genre. Join us each episode as we take a trip across the pond and into the past in search of...

Camp Half-Pod: A Percy Jackson Podcast

151 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
Just two demigods who love Percy Jackson. Join Erin and Manasa as we dive into the canon of the Percy Jackson universe, a few chapters at a time. We'll be going through not only Percy Jackson and t...

The Twenty Percent True Podcast

133 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
Every week a new story. Every episode a new monster.

Wheel Takes

319 episodes - Latest episode: about 15 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
An irreverent journey through Robert Jordan's THE WHEEL OF TIME, hosted by Gus (who has read the whole series) and Ali (who has not). New episodes every Friday!

Booknotes+

166 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 121 ratings
Taking the concept from Brian Lamb's long running Booknotes TV program, the podcast offers listeners more books and authors. Booknotes+ features a mix of new interviews with authors and historians,...

LARB Radio Hour

342 episodes - Latest episode: 6 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...

Public Intellectual

180 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 118 ratings
Complicated conversations with complicated people about complicated topics. Let's get into the real mess of gender, feminism, punishment, class, politics, and culture and leave easy rhetoric and ji...

Goblet Of Wine: A Drunken British Harry Potter Podcast

160 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 117 ratings
Two British lifelong Harry Potter fans Hannah and Charlie re-read their favourite childhood book chapter by chapter with added alcohol and cynicism in fortnightly episodes! The perfect podcast for...

Firewhisky and Honey's Podcast

158 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★ - 117 ratings
Have you ever wished you could re-experience reading the Harry Potter series for the first time? Were you disappointed in the loss of a favorite character? Did you want to see what would have happe...

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's Fiction Podcast

155 episodes - Latest episode: 18 days ago - ★★★★ - 114 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...

Reading McCarthy

51 episodes - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 113 ratings
READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode will call upon different well-known Co...

Tomefoolery

167 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 112 ratings
Investigative Humorist Codex Melcher invites funny friends over to talk about really bizarre, bad, and buckwild books.

Books and Boba

283 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 109 ratings
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, nonficti...

Tea with Tolkien

116 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 108 ratings
Join us as we chat about the works and faith of J.R.R. Tolkien, and strive to carry a little piece of Middle-Earth into our own daily lives.

Read It or List It

146 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 105 ratings
Read It or List It is the podcast for the thoughtful, busy reader who needs to know: add to cart or save it for later? We will be taking a critical look into the books we read in all mediums (audio...

Go Guru

1,112 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 104 ratings
Go Guru - all the adventures life has to offer.

Star Wars Bookworms

138 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 102 ratings
A monthly podcast where we discuss and review all of the latest Star Wars releases from Marvel Comics, Del Rey Books, Disney/Lucasfilm Press, and more. Expect fun and knowledgeable guests from the ...

Table of (Mal)Contents

196 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 101 ratings
Join Aaron Armstrong, Dave Schroeder and friends as they talk about the books they love (and many they really don't) to help you be a better reader.

Poem Talk

146 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 100 ratings
Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charl...

It's A Clue

66 episodes - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★★ - 99 ratings
The faux crime comedy podcast hosted by your favorite team of sister sleuths, Kelly and Karen!

Failure to Adapt

50 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 97 ratings
Is the book always better? Are they better off as Movies?? Finally, an answer. Author Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Comic Red Scott talk media that moves from one form to another. Whether it's Stephen Kin...

Uncommon Sense - The Official Podcast of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton

462 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 96 ratings
The Podcast of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, where we talk about everything under the sun with a Chestertonian perspective, as well as the writings and legacy of G.K. Chesterton himself....

Black Chick Lit

106 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 95 ratings
Black Chick Lit is a bi-monthly podcast that talks books by and about black women.

Charlotte Readers Podcast

589 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Where Authors Give Voice to Their Written Words

Masters of the Forge | Warhammer 40k Narrative Play Podcast | Radio

228 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
A podcast devoted to bringing the world of Warhammer 40,000 to life on the tabletop.

Hyperspace Hangout: A Star Wars Podcast

208 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
A podcast by Star Wars fans, for Star Wars fans!!! To be a part of the show, send your transmissions to [email protected] | Remember - “traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops”

This is My Hobby

133 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Maddie and Abby break down books and shows that must be talked about.

Ranking Rick Riordan: A Percy Jackson Podcast

79 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
Welcome to Ranking Rick Riordan: A Percy Jackson Podcast. Every week Dan, Olga, and Clara gather (remotely) to review and rank a book in the Percy Jackson Mythological Universe. Our plan is to cove...

History Author Show

349 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 88 ratings
We’ve all been transported into the past by a special book, place or person. On the History Author Show, host Dean Karayanis and a team of correspondents bring you the people who build the time mac...