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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 9, 2026

Best Books Podcasts

The top 100 Books shows on the Apple Podcasts chart (US), plus the episodes trending right now.

Trending Books episodes

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#1

Veteran White House reporter April Ryan’s ‘Blacklash’

Fresh Air · 44 min

#2

How Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought the culture wars to the military

Fresh Air · 44 min

#3

Ep 2: Threshing Day Stories 7-13

Fantasy Fangirls · 2 h 34 min

#4

Fitting In

Selected Shorts · 1 h 00 min

#5

Ep 1: Threshing Day (First Six POVs)

Fantasy Fangirls · 2 h 56 min

#6

Michael Douglas

Fresh Air · 44 min

#7

Indian folklore: Fake It 'Til You Make It

Myths and Legends · 53 min

#8

Early 2010s Pop Culture Nostalgia

Bad On Paper · 1 h 17 min

#9

‘Showbiz!’ entertainer Murray Hill became what he didn’t see

Fresh Air · 44 min

#10

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State (w/ Jill Lepore) | TCHR

The Chris Hedges Report · 49 min

#11

Ep 483 - Banned Books Week - Being a Reader in a Dystopian Hellscape

Reading Glasses · 37 min

#12

Episode 602 || What Would Scully & Mulder Read?

From the Front Porch · 41 min

New in Books

Brand new shows that entered this chart within two weeks of launch.

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The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Fresh Air

NPR

— 2

Jeselnik Book Club

The Ringer

— 3

Fantasy Fangirls

Fantasy Fangirls

▲ 1 4

The Book Club

Goalhanger

▼ 1 5

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod

▲ 1 6

The Book Review

The New York Times

▼ 1 7

NPR's Book of the Day

NPR

— 8

The New Yorker: Fiction

The New Yorker

— 9

It Was A Book First

It Was A Book First

▲ 1 10

Zero to Well-Read

Book Riot

▼ 1 11

Off The Shelf with Morgann Book

Bookish Media

— 12

What Should I Read Next?

Anne Bogel

— 13

Selected Shorts

Symphony Space

— 14

Dedicated with Doug Brunt

SiriusXM

▲ 34 15

Poetry Unbound

On Being Studios

▲ 1 16

The Chris Hedges Report

Chris Hedges

▲ 22 17

The Bookshelf Chronicles

AC Wilson

▼ 3 18

Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa

Service95

▼ 1 19

Hello Crawlers - A Dungeon Crawler Carl Podcast

Grant Davis

▲ 2 20

Dragons in the Details: A Romantasy Deep Dive Podcast

Abby and Ronnie | Huge Book Nerds

▲ 2 21

DTFae

DTFae Podcast

▼ 2 22

Naaji /ناجـی

Pari

▼ 7 23

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman & Olivia Muenter

▲ 5 24

Storytime for Grownups

Faith Moore

▲ 1 25

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra

▼ 2 26

Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Stories

Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Pod

▲ 3 27

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Monday Schwartz and Kaytee Cobb

▼ 7 28

Marlon and Jake Read Dead People

Penguin Random House

▼ 10 29

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

▼ 5 30

Book Riot - The Podcast

Book Riot

▲ 1 31

The Literary Life Podcast

Angelina Stanford Thomas Banks

▼ 1 32

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Noe

▼ 6 33

The Prancing Pony Podcast

The Prancing Pony Podcast

▼ 1 34

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

▼ 7 35

Barbican Station - A Slow Horses Podcast

Spy Write

▼ 1 36

Prose Society with Eli Rallo

iHeartPodcasts

— 37

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

▲ 34 38

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

▲ 43 39

No Write Way with V. E. Schwab

V. E. Schwab (Author)

▼ 6 40

Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

Fated Mates

▲ 9 41

Book Talk, etc.

Tina @tbretc and Hannah @hanpickedbooks

▼ 6 42

Fiction Writing Made Easy with Savannah Gilbo | How to Write a Novel & Writing Advice

Savannah Gilbo

▲ 9 43

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

Merriam-Webster

▲ 2 44

Fantasy FanFellas

Fantasy Fangirls Media Network

▼ 5 45

Overdue

Headgum

▼ 5 46

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg, Graeme Donaldson, and Thomas Magbee

▼ 9 47

Literature and History

Doug Metzger

▼ 1 48

Adriana Trigiani's You Are What You Read

Adriana Trigiani

▼ 4 49

Poured Over

Barnes & Noble

▼ 8 50

Shelf Respect

Shelf Respect

▼ 7

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