Literature Podcasts

What It Takes

161 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 785 ratings
Revealing, intimate conversations with visionaries and leaders in the arts, science, technology, public service, sports and business. These engaging personal stories are drawn from interviews with ...

Overly Sarcastic Podcast

16 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 764 ratings
Red and Blue of Overly Sarcastic Productions keep the learnin' rollin' with a biweekly after show! Join the OSP crew as we chat about all the anecdotes, corrections, and fan questions that didn't m...

Book Riot - The Podcast

563 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 744 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

The Thing About France

22 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 164 ratings
The Thing About France is a podcast where cultural figures explore the fascinating and complicated relationship between France and America.

F***bois of Literature : A podcast about toxic people in books

261 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 130 ratings
The comedy podcast about toxic characters, writers, and tropes of literature and legend. Join host Emily Edwards to discuss feminist literature, toxic masculinity, gender roles, and intersectional...

Skyrim Book Club

1,083 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 105 ratings
An audio book archive of all the literature and lore available in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Not Your Demographic

236 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 104 ratings
Tune in every other week as Stella Cheeks & Erin Cline discuss the state of the world, their never-ending reading lists, and occasionally talk about professional wrestling. It's the same Not Your...

Everybody Hates Rand: A Wheel of Time Podcast

196 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★ - 93 ratings
Just two hyper-critical English majors talking some pretty big game about The Wheel of Time. Co-hosts Emily and Sally gather around their kitchen table each week to serve you up a full fantasy feas...

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's Fiction Podcast

117 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 87 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 audio ren...

Literary Treks: A Star Trek Books and Comics Podcast

318 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
Literary Treks is a Trek.fm podcast dedicated entirely to Star Trek in written form. Each week hosts Matthew Rushing and C Bryan Jones explore Star Trek books and comics and chat with authors.

Three Percent Podcast

314 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
The Three Percent Podcast is a weekly(ish) conversation about new books, the publishing scene, international literature in translation, and many other random rants and raves. Chad W. Post of Open L...

Pod and Prejudice

42 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 77 ratings
Becca has read all of Jane Austen's work. Molly literally does not know who Mrs. Bennet is. Together, they venture into Austen's world of romance, biting satire, and class struggles. Like Austen? ...

Ink to Film

190 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 75 ratings
Are you the sort of person who likes to read the book before you see the movie? So are Luke and James—a writer and filmmaker respectively who bring their backgrounds studying stories to the table f...

LARB Radio Hour

181 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 69 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 Editor-at-Large Kate Wolf, Managing Editor Meday...

Sherlock Holmes: Trifles

224 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 68 ratings
You know the plots, but what about the minutiae? We delve into the Sherlock Holmes stories and answers questions that arise, clarify muddy details, and look into some of the period terminology in t...

Thaddeus Ellenburg's Casual Friday

60 episodes - Latest episode: 19 days ago - ★★★★★ - 65 ratings
Finish the work week in all-out hysterics with short stories written and read by Thaddeus Ellenburg.

Paraphrase

13 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 64 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...

Hypnogoria

554 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Welcome to Hypnogoria, Britian's longest running horror podcast! Coming to you from the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon invites you to take a comfy armchair by the fireside to talk of all th...

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

184 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Feminist Book Club: The Podcast features interviews with feminist authors, conversations with feminist readers, and readings from contemporary feminist works.

Amazon Book Review Podcast

36 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★ - 63 ratings
The Amazon Book Review Podcast is hosted by the Amazon Books editors and brings conversations between these book experts to readers who are looking for their next favorite book. Each podcast featur...

Pairing

81 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 61 ratings
A podcast about pairing wine with art and culture! Every other week, Emma, your host, talks with various guests about how to pair wine with the things that they love- and they're not talking about ...

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

175 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 58 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...

Reading the End

123 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 58 ratings
A book-focused podcast in which two girls named Jenny review books and discuss events in the literary world.

Everything Trying to Kill You

169 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 57 ratings
Twice a month, a lit professor, a behavioral therapist, and an elder care worker make fun of and analyze horror movies...because no one wants to be scared alone. But no one wants to stop watching s...

Apocalist Book Club

33 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 56 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.

How To Love Lit Podcast

115 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
A look at all of the literature you read in high school and college and wished you had paid more attention to.

London Review Bookshop Podcast

403 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★ - 54 ratings
Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more. Find out about our upcoming events here: https://lrb.me/books...

Combat and Classics Podcast

61 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 53 ratings
Combat and Classics is a series of podcasts and free online seminars for active duty, reserve, and veteran U.S. military members, sponsored by St. John’s College. The podcasts and seminars encourag...

Eat Your Words

396 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 50 ratings
Eat Your Words is the weekly radio dispatch from Cathy Erway, founder of the blog Not Eating Out In New York. Every week, Cathy is joined by authors of books that you just want to eat up -- from co...

Accio Politics! A Harry Potter Podcast

155 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 49 ratings
Hosts Adri, Helene, and K. Alex bring their lived experience and close-read every chapter of Harry Potter discussing the politics that shape the action of the Wizarding World.