Insights from recent episode analysis
Audience Interest
- literary discussions
- book recommendations
Podcast Focus
- reviews of new books
- interviews with authors
Publishing Consistency
- weekly episodes
- 11 years active
Platform Reach
- available on Apple Podcasts
- available on Spotify
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Total monthly reach
Estimated from 31 chart positions in 31 markets.
By chart position
- 🇺🇸US · Books#51M to 3M
- 🇨🇦CA · Books#7300K to 1M
- 🇦🇺AU · Books#15300K to 1M
- 🇬🇧GB · Books#16300K to 1M
- 🇩🇪DE · Books#33100K to 300K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
853K to 2.7M🎙 Daily cadence·589 episodes·Last published today - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
2.8M to 8.9M🇺🇸34%🇨🇦11%🇦🇺11%+28 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
1.1M to 3.6M
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The Best Books of the 21st Century: Ryan Holiday on ‘The Road’
Jun 12, 2026
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A Summer Book Recommendation Bonanza
Jun 5, 2026
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Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Transcription,' by Ben Lerner
May 30, 2026
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The Ezra Klein Show: Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness
May 22, 2026
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Matt Haig on ‘The Midnight Library,’ Mental Illness and Winnie-the-Pooh
May 15, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/12/26 |  The Best Books of the 21st Century: Ryan Holiday on ‘The Road’ | The best-selling author joined the “Book Review” podcast to discuss how his relationship to Cormac McCarthy’s novel changed after becoming a father. | — | ||||||
| 6/5/26 |  A Summer Book Recommendation Bonanza | From doppelgängers to dark academia, the Book Review editors share some of their most-anticipated titles. | — | ||||||
| 5/30/26 |  Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Transcription,' by Ben Lerner | Ben Lerner’s slender new novel, “Transcription,” is just 130 pages long, yet it cracks open some of our most colossal and enduring philosophical questions. On this episode, MJ Franklin discusses “Transcription” with fellow Book Review editors Gregory Cowles and Alexandra Jacobs. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 |  The Ezra Klein Show: Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness | Today we are delighted to share an episode from our colleagues on “The Ezra Klein Show,” originally published on March 31. Ezra interviewed author Michael Pollan, whose best-selling books include “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” “In Defense of Food,” and “How to Change Your Mind.” Pollan’s latest book, “A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness,” came out earlier this year. It’s an exploration of what consciousness is, and the book is — as our review put it — “highly pleasurable to read.” | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 |  Matt Haig on ‘The Midnight Library,’ Mental Illness and Winnie-the-Pooh | The best-selling author joins the “Book Review” podcast to discuss his new novel, “The Midnight Train.” | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 |  Patricia Cornwell on Her Dark Childhood and Best-Selling Novels✨ | memoircrime fiction+3 | Patricia CornwellDaniel Kraus | True CrimeAngel Down | — | Patricia CornwellTrue Crime+5 | — | 59m 30s | |
| 5/1/26 |  ‘The Book Review’ Podcast Turns 20✨ | literary trendshit books+4 | — | The New York Timesromantasy | — | book reviewliterary trends+4 | — | 1h 05m 19s | |
| 4/24/26 | Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Renovation,' by Kenan Orhan✨ | book discussionliterature+3 | Joumana KhatibDave Kim | The New York TimesThe Renovation | IstanbulSilivri Prison+2 | Kenan OrhanThe Renovation+3 | — | 42m 40s | |
| 4/17/26 |  The Time Loop Book Series You Should Be Reading✨ | book seriestranslated fiction+3 | — | On the Calculation of Volume | — | Solvej BalleOn the Calculation of Volume+3 | — | 35m 58s | |
| 4/10/26 |  Patrick Radden Keefe on the Mystery at the Center of ‘London Falling’✨ | mysteryinvestigation+3 | Patrick Radden Keefe | London Falling | — | Patrick Radden KeefeLondon Falling+4 | — | 34m 41s | |
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| 4/3/26 |  23 Books We Are Looking Forward to This Spring✨ | spring booksfiction+3 | Ada Limón | The New York Times | — | booksspring+3 | — | 47m 35s | |
| 3/27/26 |  Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Kin,' by Tayari Jones✨ | book discussionnovel analysis+3 | — | Kin | — | Tayari JonesKin+3 | — | 47m 17s | |
| 3/20/26 |  Andy Weir on Writing the Hit Book Behind the Movie ‘Project Hail Mary’✨ | writingfilm adaptation+3 | Andy Weir | The New York TimesProject Hail Mary | — | Andy WeirProject Hail Mary+3 | — | 39m 01s | |
| 3/13/26 |  Louise Erdrich on Her New Story Collection and the Mystery of Writing✨ | writing processstory collection+3 | Louise Erdrich | The New York TimesPlanet of the Apes | — | Louise Erdrichwriting+3 | — | 34m 17s | |
| 3/6/26 |  The Avett Brothers’ Bassist on Writing a John Quincy Adams Book✨ | musicwriting+3 | Bob Crawford | The New York TimesAmerica’s Founding Son | — | Bob CrawfordJohn Quincy Adams+3 | — | 38m 12s | |
| 2/27/26 | Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Wuthering Heights,' by Emily Brontë✨ | Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë+3 | — | New York Times Book ReviewWuthering Heights+1 | — | Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë+3 | — | 54m 11s | |
| 2/24/26 | Director Clint Bentley on Adapting ‘Train Dreams’ for the Big Screen✨ | film adaptationscreenplay writing+3 | Clint Bentley | The New York TimesOscars+1 | — | Clint BentleyTrain Dreams+5 | — | 38m 40s | |
| 2/20/26 | Guillermo del Toro on Writing and Directing the Oscar-Nominated ‘Frankenstein’ | Ahead of this year’s Academy Awards, the director appeared on the Book Review podcast to speak about his latest film. | — | ||||||
| 2/13/26 | Julia Quinn on Her 'Bridgerton' Books and the Smash Netflix Series | Julia Quinn published "The Duke and I," the first book in the 'Bridgerton' series, in 2000. Seven books and a quarter century later, its adaptation remains one of the biggest series ever to air on Netflix. Quinn spoke to host Gilbert Cruz about the show, her books and how the romance genre has changed over several decades. | — | ||||||
| 2/6/26 | How Nintendo Became the World's Most Fun Video Game Company | Keza MacDonald, the video games editor at The Guardian and author of the new book “Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play,” speaks with host Gilbert Cruz about the iconic Japanese company. | — | ||||||
| 1/30/26 | Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Hounding' by Xenobe Purvis | Xenobe Purvis’s slim but powerful debut novel, “The Hounding,” is about five young sisters in 1700s England who are suspected of being able to transform into a pack of wild dogs. It is a gothic parable about male ego, cultural misogyny and the dangers of gossip run amok. On this week’s episode, host MJ Franklin discusses “The Hounding” with fellow Book Review editors Joumana Khatib, Emily Eakin and Gregory Cowles. | — | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | Chuck Klosterman Has So Much to Say About Football | The journalist, novelist and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman is best known for writing about rock music and pop culture. But Klosterman got his start in college as a sports journalist, and with his new book, “Football,” he has finally devoted an entire collection to the sport that has fundamentally shaped him alongside American society at large. | — | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | The Books We're Excited About in Early 2026 | A new year means new books are on the way! So many new books. On this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz talks with fellow Book Review editors Joumana Khatib and MJ Franklin about the upcoming fiction and nonfiction titles they’re most anticipating between now and April. | — | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | 'The Correspondent' Author Virginia Evans On Her Breakout Year | Virginia Evans’s debut novel, “The Correspondent,” was published last April and became one of the publishing industry’s heartwarming champions of 2025. For Evans, who had written and failed to sell seven previous novels, the book’s popularity has felt magical, as she explains to host Gilbert Cruz on this week’s podcast. | — | ||||||
| 12/27/25 | Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘What We Can Know’ | Ian McEwan’s latest novel, one of the Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2025, is a literary mystery about a scholar’s search for a long-lost poem. | — | ||||||
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