Books Podcasts

It's Been a Minute

850 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratings
Has it been a minute since you heard a thought-provoking conversation about culture? Brittany Luse wants to help. Each week, she takes the things everyone's talking about and, in conversation with ...

Potterless

246 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7.4K 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 bask in the...

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

2,468 episodes - Latest episode: about 12 hours ago - ★★★★ - 5.5K ratings
Deep in the back of your mind, you’ve always had the feeling that there’s something strange about reality. There is. Join Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick as they examine neurological quandaries, cosm...

EconTalk

1,265 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes ...

QAA Podcast

579 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★ - 3.9K ratings
Conspiracy theories, melted online communities and cursed media — we pry open the cracks in consensus reality and journey into the hidden worlds below. The QAA Podcast is a mix of reporting, comedy...

Presidential

62 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 3.6K ratings
The Washington Post's Presidential podcast explores how each former American president reached office, made decisions, handled crises and redefined the role of commander-in-chief. It was released l...

Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry

286 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★ - 3.5K ratings
Sorry Not Sorry tackles social, political and cultural issues from the perspective of unapologetic guests while highlighting activists doing amazing things throughout the country.

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

1,189 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our Solar System and beyond. We visit each week with the scientists, engineers, leaders, advocates, and astronauts who are taking us across th...

Teen Creeps

420 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
Grownup comedians Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai discuss the trashy teen horror of their awkward neon youth - from the rise of MTV to the fall of ... well, MTV. So tighten those side ponytails, pus...

Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily

230 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
Celebrity memoirs aren’t like normal books—they’re fun! Join comedians Steven Phillips-Horst (@gossipbabies) & Lily Marotta (@lilyblueyez) as they rifle through the diaries of drug-addled starlets...

Enter the Lionheart

144 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
THE PODCAST FOR ADVENTUROUS SOULS Leadership +Fatherhood +Investment +Excellence in Sport

Dyking Out - a Lesbian and LGBTQIA Podcast for Everyone!

291 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 995 ratings
Hosted by New York City-based comedians Carolyn Bergier & Melody Kamali, Dyking Out is a podcast about lesbian / queer life, news, and pop culture. Each week, Carolyn and Melody invite a special gu...

Petros And Money

5,054 episodes - Latest episode: about 11 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 926 ratings
Great Sports Talk every weekday from 3-7pm

Book Riot - The Podcast

979 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★ - 882 ratings
Book Riot - The Podcast is a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking about in the world of books and reading, brought to you by the editors of BookRiot.com

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

616 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 875 ratings
Science fiction author David Barr Kirtley (Save Me Plz and Other Stories) talks geek culture with guests such as Neil Gaiman (#253), George R. R. Martin (#22), Richard Dawkins (#46), Simon Pegg (#...

Still Watching

345 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★ - 864 ratings
Join Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson, Chris Murphy, and Hillary Busis as they recap and analyze the most exciting series on TV and streaming, and get the inside story on how these shows come t...

Reading Bug Adventures - Original Stories with Music for Kids

180 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 779 ratings
Let's Fly! Reading Bug Adventures is a story podcast for kids from The Reading Bug. Each episode is a new adventure with original songs -- just hop into the Reading Bug's magic book bag, and we'll ...

Sleep and Relax ASMR

740 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★ - 766 ratings
Sleep and Relax ASMR is a weekly podcast that creates audio experiences designed to help people sleep and relax. The show uses various ASMR triggers including whispers, gentle speaking, relaxing ...

Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited

255 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 749 ratings
Home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare materials. Advancing knowledge and the arts. Discover it all at www.folger.edu. Shakespeare turns up in the most interesting places—not just li...

Baseball by the Book

216 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 625 ratings
A veteran baseball journalist interviews today's best baseball authors about their books.

TALKING POLITICS

411 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 619 ratings
Coronavirus! Climate! Brexit! Trump! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting: Talking Politics is the podcast that tries to make sense of it all. Every week D...

Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

527 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★ - 586 ratings
Comic Geek Speak is the best podcast about comic books for fans and new readers alike. Put together by a group of life-long comic geeks, it's 4-5 hours a week of comic book history, current comic n...

Thirty Twenty Ten

345 episodes - Latest episode: about 14 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 582 ratings
A pop culture time machine! Each episode covers one week that very week from 30 years ago, 20 years ago and 10 years ago, which means each show is loaded with forgotten movies, timeless TV episodes...

Chris Beat Cancer: Heal With Nutrition & Natural Therapies

126 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 578 ratings
A podcast about healing and preventing cancer with nutrition & natural therapies, and living life with joy and purpose! I was diagnosed with stage IIIC colon cancer in 2003, at 26 years old. I ha...

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...

Backlisted

272 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 497 ratings
The literary podcast presented by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller. For show notes visit backlisted.fm and get an extra two shows a month by supporting the pod at patreon.com/backlisted

Around Comics - Comic Books, TV, Movies & More

1,163 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 452 ratings
Welcome to Around Comics, the ultimate comic book podcast for fans and newcomers alike! Join Chris, Brion, and Tom as they dive into the exciting world of comics and all the pop culture that surrou...

Open Book with Stephen Nichols

40 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 437 ratings
This podcast is about the power of books and the people they’ve shaped. Stephen Nichols joins R.C. Sproul and other teachers in their personal libraries to discover the books that have left a mark ...

Cthulhu & Friends

210 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 396 ratings
Cthulhu & Friends is a real play Pulp Cthulhu TTRPG podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tech Won't Save Us

240 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 395 ratings
Silicon Valley wants to shape our future, but why should we let it? Every Thursday, Paris Marx is joined by a new guest to critically examine the tech industry, its big promises, and the people be...