No book has dominated the big lists or the reading public consciousness this year. In this week's episode of Zero to Well-Read, Jeff and Rebecca discuss the award-winning books, pop culture phenomena, book club picks, and crossover hits of 2025 and attempt to identify the ones that might someday join the canon. Subscribe wherever you pod or through our Linktree in profile. | Book Riot
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No book has dominated the big lists or the reading public consciousness this year. In this week's episode of Zero to Well-Read, Jeff and Rebecca discuss the award-winning books, pop culture phenomena, book club picks, and crossover hits of 2025 and attempt to identify the ones that might someday join the canon. Subscribe wherever you pod or through our Linktree in profile. | Book Riot
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"This is a book about hope." Jeff and Rebecca talk about how hope takes shape in Octavia Butler's dark, prescient post-apocalyptic classic, and so much more in this week's episode of Zero to Well-Read. Subscribe wherever you listen and through our Linktree in profile! | Book Riot
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"This is a book about hope." Jeff and Rebecca talk about how hope takes shape in Octavia Butler's dark, prescient post-apocalyptic classic, and so much more in this week's episode of Zero to Well-Read. Subscribe wherever you listen and through our Linktree in profile! | Book Riot
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Rebecca and Jeff reflect on what they've learned during the first season of the Zero to Well-Read pod: part book club, part English class, all fun. In the latest episode, they also answer listener questions, and discuss ideas for the future of this fun and irreverent guide to the books everyone talks about, from classics you should have read in high school to the modern hits everyone's buzzing about. (Linktree in profile) | Book Riot
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Rebecca and Jeff reflect on what they've learned during the first season of the Zero to Well-Read pod: part book club, part English class, all fun. In the latest episode, they also answer listener questions, and discuss ideas for the future of this fun and irreverent guide to the books everyone talks about, from classics you should have read in high school to the modern hits everyone's buzzing about. (Linktree in profile) | Book Riot
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On the Zero to Well-Read podcast, Jeff and Rebecca took up "Bartleby, the Scrivener," Herman Melville’s famously baffling tale of passive resistance, work, and opting out. Because it's a short story and because there are countless things you can project onto Bartleby, we suggest book clubbing this story by having everyone show up having not read the story (or looking up potential meanings). Read the story live in the moment, and then talk about it from everyone's raw impressions and interpretati
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On the Zero to Well-Read podcast, Jeff and Rebecca took up "Bartleby, the Scrivener," Herman Melville’s famously baffling tale of passive resistance, work, and opting out. Because it's a short story and because there are countless things you can project onto Bartleby, we suggest book clubbing this story by having everyone show up having not read the story (or looking up potential meanings). Read the story live in the moment, and then talk about it from everyone's raw impressions and interpretati
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Shakespeare, "not quite like the shark in Jaws." Jeff and Rebecca get into Maggie O'Farrell's best-selling, critically-acclaimed, and now feature film, Hamnet. How does a book loosely based on the life of William Shakespeare not even use the name once? It's a deft, moving, and complicated novel--and makes for terrific discussion. Check out our Linktree in profile to subscribe to the podcast and hear the full episode. | Book Riot
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Book Riot Chief of Staff Rebecca Schinsky is talking about six excellent and buzzy reads to kick off 2026 with, many by iconic and award-winning writers. Learn more about these 2026 bestsellers in the making, literary criticism, short stories, big books, and more. Watch until the end for a bonus pick! | Book Riot
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I spent two hours on @book riot’s podcast @Zero to Well-Read talking about the origins of the Constitution…and how the anti-Federalists were right. Listen anywhere you get your podcasts
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Book lovers, this one’s for you! 🎙️ The Book Riot Podcast returns to Powell’s City of Books for a special live taping featuring Jeff O’Neal, Rebecca Schinsky, Vanessa Diaz, and our very own book buyer extraordinaire, Keith Mosman. They’ll be revealing their picks for the Best Books of the Year (So Far)—twenty titles you’ll definitely want on your TBR. Come hang with the Book Riot crew and see how their favorites stack up against yours. 📚 | Powell's Books, Inc.
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What characters could stand to benefit from a good therapist? Jeff and Rebecca revisit Donna Tartt's cult classic, the OG of dark academia, The Secret History. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts (Linktree in profile). | Book Riot
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Do you know about the book behind One Battle After Another? Listen to Zero to Well-Read wherever you get your pods. | Book Riot
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Want to read more classics, but feel overwhelmed? Consider these shorter must-read books you won’t want to put down. What do you rec? #bookstagram | Book Riot
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Illustrated scary stories based on real events. I’m sure I will sleep fine. | Book Riot
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The students are circulating a petition to get answers about the book bans. | Book Riot
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