Literature Podcasts

Snoozecast

424 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 758 ratings
Welcome to Snoozecast, the podcast designed to help you fall asleep. New episodes released every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. No in-story ads. Beloved by thousands that fall asleep with us ...

Me Reading Stuff

308 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 194 ratings
This is simply me reading stuff. "Stuff" being poems and literature and essays and letters. And I'm also talking and praising and laughing and almost crying and hating and living and dying and lovi...

The Thing About France

22 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 164 ratings
The Thing About France is a podcast where cultural figures explore the fascinating and complicated relationship between France and America.

Oh No! Lit Class

154 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 140 ratings
Oh No! Lit Class is a semi-educational comedy literature podcast hosted by Megan and RJ, two bitter English grads who are here to tell you all the weird and sexy things you never knew about the boo...

F***bois of Literature Book Podcast

267 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 130 ratings
**FBOL is currently Patreon Exclusive! Subscribe at http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit** The podcast about the most groan-worthy, enraging, and sh*t characters in lit. Join host Emily Edwards an...

Question of the Day

462 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 118 ratings
Learn something new every day! Question of the Day, the award-winning interactive trivia game for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant is now a daily podcast. For a few minutes each day, the Questio...

Skyrim Book Club

1,155 episodes - Latest episode: about 19 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 105 ratings
An audio book archive of all the literature and lore available in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Everybody Hates Rand: A Wheel of Time Podcast

200 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 103 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

122 episodes - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★ - 95 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...

Literary Treks: A Star Trek Books and Comics Podcast

324 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 84 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.

Thaddeus Ellenburg's Casual Friday

61 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 71 ratings
Finish the work week in all-out hysterics with short stories written and read by Thaddeus Ellenburg.

LARB Radio Hour

194 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 70 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...

Amazon Book Review Podcast

36 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★ - 67 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...

Paraphrase

13 episodes - Latest episode: 10 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...

The To Read List Podcast

95 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 63 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

61 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Novel Conversations is a podcast summarizing the world’s greatest works of classic literature: in 35 minutes you get the whole story from cover to cover. If CliffsNotes had an audio-bestfriend, it ...

Everything Trying to Kill You

172 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 62 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...

How To Love Lit Podcast

128 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 61 ratings
A look at all of the literature you read in high school and college and wished you had paid more attention to.

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

207 episodes - Latest episode: 12 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...

Combat and Classics Podcast

61 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 56 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...

The Turn On

205 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
The Turn On is a podcast for Black people who want to get off. To open their minds. To learn. To be part of a community. To show that we love and have sex too, and it doesn’t have to be political o...

Think About It

117 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Think About It engages today's leading thinkers in conversations about powerful ideas and how language can change the world.

Eat Your Words

396 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★ - 50 ratings
A radio dispatch from Cathy Erway, founder of the blog Not Eating Out In New York. Cathy is joined by authors of books that you'll want to eat up! From colorful cookbooks, to food memoirs, to expos...

Storytellers Telling Stories

50 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
A podcast harkening back to the Golden Age of Radio, creating a “theatre of the mind” with writers, actors, and musicians, hosted by Jude Brewer.

KeyLIME

327 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
Key Literature in Medical Education (KeyLIME) is a bi-weekly podcast produced by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Bringing you the main points of a medical education articl...

Mythgard Academy

372 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 43 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, ...

Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle Podcast

58 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
We’re Shannon and Nievita, and we’re the Ravin’ Girls! Welcome to our Raven Cycle podcast, where we analyze Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle as a cycle, taking a look at the connections and foreshad...

Ditch Diggers

209 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 41 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.

AAWW Radio: New Asian American Writers & Literature

88 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
AAWW Radio is the podcast of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, an NYC literary arts space at the intersection of migration, race, and social justice. Listen to AAWW Radio and you’ll hear select...

Books Are My People

63 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
Books Are My People is a podcast for book lovers with book news, book recommendations and ruminations on living a literary life in Los Angeles. Each episode will feature at least five book recommen...