Top Books Podcasts in United States

The latest Apple Podcasts Books chart for United States, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked November 1, 2026.

1

Fresh Air

NPR

2

Fantasy Fangirls

Fantasy Fangirls

3

The Book Review

The New York Times

4

The Book Club

Goalhanger

5

The Literary Life Podcast

Angelina Stanford Thomas Banks

6

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod

7

DTFae

DTFae Podcast

8

Selected Shorts

Symphony Space

9

Storytime for Grownups

Faith Moore

10

Jeselnik Book Club

The Ringer

11

Ashley After Dark:Stories For After Hours

Ashley Van-De-Cruize Lampkin

12

Zero to Well-Read

Book Riot

13

Off The Shelf with Morgann Book

Bookish Media

14

The New Yorker: Fiction

The New Yorker

15

Poetry Unbound

On Being Studios

16

NPR's Book of the Day

NPR

17

Hello Crawlers - A Dungeon Crawler Carl Podcast

Grant Davis

18

It Was A Book First

It Was A Book First

19

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson / The Podglomerate

20

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

21

Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Stories

Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Pod

22

Dragons in the Details: A Romantasy Deep Dive Podcast

Abby and Ronnie | Huge Book Nerds

23

The Clearing with Katherine May

Katherine May

24

Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa

Service95

25

What Should I Read Next?

Anne Bogel

26

Marlon and Jake Read Dead People

Penguin Random House

27

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

Merriam-Webster

28

Naaji /ناجـی

Pari

29

The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast

Bloody FM

30

The Prancing Pony Podcast

The Prancing Pony Podcast

31

Close Readings

London Review of Books

32

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Noe

33

Literature and History

Doug Metzger

34

Book Riot - The Podcast

Book Riot

35

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Monday Schwartz and Kaytee Cobb

36

The Emmas

The Emmas

37

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra

38

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

39

Overdue

Headgum

40

Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

Fated Mates

41

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

42

Scholé Every Day: A Book Club for Regular People

Brandy Vencel, Mystie Winckler, and Abby Wahl

43

Reading Glasses

Brea Grant and Mallory O'Meara

44

The New Yorker: Poetry

The New Yorker

45

Prose Society with Eli Rallo

iHeartPodcasts

46

Shelf Respect

Shelf Respect

47

文化有限

文化有限

48

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman & Olivia Muenter

49

The Book Case

ABC News | Charlie Gibson, Kate Gibson

50

The New Black Canon: 100 Books to Read Before You Die

Afrori Books

51

Wrapup | رپاپ

amir soodbakhsh

52

Book Talk, etc.

Tina @tbretc and Hannah @hanpickedbooks

53

Reading Ferdowsi فردوسی خوانی

Amir Khadem

54

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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

55

The Chris Hedges Report

Chris Hedges

56

Exploring The Greats

Exploring The Greats

57

Flights of Fantasy

Flights of Fantasy

58

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

59

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

60

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

Savannah Gilbo

61

Shelved By Genre

Ranged Touch

62

This Is The Thing With Bev and Lindsay

Bev and Lindsay

63

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson | Sarah's Bookshelves

64

Books That Made Me

Aidan Flax-Clark

65

The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told

iHeartPodcasts

66

Treasure Island

NOISER

67

Fantasy FanFellas

Fantasy Fangirls Media Network

68

Gay Erotica by Liam Williams

Liam Williams

69

Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

Doof! Media

70

MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

Harry Potter

71

Outdoorsy Women+ Book Pod

Christine Reed

72

Gom Jabbar: A Dune Podcast

Lore Party Media

73

بیوگرافی

Mona

74

Hardcore Literature

Benjamin McEvoy

75

Dracula - Audiobook by Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker

76

Books, Beach, & Beyond

Elin Hilderbrand, Tim Talks Books, N Magazine

77

Poured Over

Barnes & Noble

78

Everything Cookbooks

Andrea Nguyen, Molly Stevens, Kate Leahy, Kristin Donnelly

79

Writers on Writing

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone

80

Backlisted

Backlisted

81

Jane Austen Bedtime Stories

Jane Austen Bedtime Pod

82

Classic Audiobooks Collection

Graham Whitmore

83

Adriana Trigiani's You Are What You Read

Adriana Trigiani

84

The Bookshelf Chronicles

AC Wilson

85

I'll Read What She's Reading

I'll Read What She's Reading

86

All About Agatha Christie

Christie

87

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions

88

The Thing About Austen

The Thing About Austen

89

Lord of the Rings Lorecast - J.R.R. Tolkien's World & Writings Explained

Robots Radio

90

London Review Bookshop Podcast

London Review Bookshop

91

Dedicated with Doug Brunt

SiriusXM

92

داستان شب

DASTANESHAB

93

The Newest Olympian

Mike Schubert

94

Secret Life of Books

Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole

95

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

96

美西螈与东方巨龙

美西螈与东方巨龙

97

Ryers Readers

Ashley

98

Reading Smut

Brea Grant, Mallory O’Meara

99

Booknotes+

C-SPAN

100

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

Joanna Penn

101

Talking Scared

Neil McRobert

102

Friends & Fiction

Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Patti Callahan Henry, Ron Block, Bleav

103

Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet

Tara A. Devlin

104

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

Cory Doctorow

105

下一本讀什麼？

閱讀前哨站瓦基

106

The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

Loyal Books

107

Poetry Off the Shelf

Poetry Foundation

108

Just King Things

Ranged Touch

109

Barbican Station - A Slow Horses Podcast

Spy Write

110

Daily Mass Readings

Augustine Institute

111

هزارداستانHazardastan

Mehran mantashi

112

Rereading the Revolution

Kellie and Daphne

113

Book Lounge by Libby

Book Lounge by Libby

114

LPN Deep Dives: Crescent City

The Last Podcast Network

115

In Deep Geek

indeepgeek

116

Fictional

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser | Nextpod

117

Dracula by Bram Stoker. Complete and Unabridged.

Mike Bennett

118

Spoil Me! Dungeon Crawler Carl

UNspoiled! Network

119

Books Unbound

Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay

120

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121

The HAL Podcast

The Human Arts of Leadership

122

Wild Precious Life

Evergreen Podcasts

123

The Same Page Book Club

Barstool Sports

124

مُلخص كتاب

Podcast Record

125

The Strike & Ellacott Files

The Strike and Ellacott Files

126

Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan

127

Life On Books Podcast

Life On Books

128

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Classic Crime Novel by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

129

Audio Poem of the Day

Poetry Foundation

130

蜜獾吃书

蜜獾吃书

131

All the Books!

Book Riot

132

Classic Poetry Aloud

Classic Poetry Aloud

133

Zombie Apocalypse Stories

Fulya Tezcon

134

Real or Not Real: A Hunger Games Podcast

Darinda and Hallee

135

Classic Audiobook Collection

Classic Audiobook Collection LLC

136

Book Off!

Book Off!

137

No Write Way with V. E. Schwab

V. E. Schwab (Author)

138

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

139

History of Westeros - A Song of Ice and Fire | Game of Thrones | HOTD | AKOTSK

History of Westeros

140

Dastaminophen| شاهنامه با داستامینوفن

Dastaminophen

141

Write Your Damn Novel: A podcast about writing a book in a month

Kristina Horner & Liz Leo

142

Bibliotequeando

Ricardo Lugo

143

Zaila

A. Van-De-Cruize

144

Books From Your Therapist

Tara Cremin & Amanda Throckmorton

145

A Dana Perino Podcast: Everything Will Be Okay

FOX News Podcasts

146

The Sons of Ares: A Red Rising Saga Podcast

Charles Snowdon, Cullen Burke

147

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

148

The Pages Between Us

Dana Bowling, Cori Neuhaus

149

Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller

Minnesota Public Radio

150

The Wheel Weaves Podcast: A Wheel of Time Podcast

Dani and Brett

151

The Five Books: Jewish Authors on the Books That Shaped Them

Tali Rosenblatt Cohen

152

Swish and Flick: A Harry Potter Podcast

Swish and Flick Podcast

153

Bookworm

KCRW

154

كنوز السيرة للشيخ عثمان الخميس

Podcast Record

155

Memoir Nation

Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

156

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

157

The Paris Review

The Paris Review

158

Writer's Routine

Dan Simpson

159

پادکست جعبه // Jabe Persian Podcast (Mansour Zabetian)

Jabe podcast

160

Jane Austen's Paper Trail

The Conversation

161

Books in the Freezer - A Horror Fiction Podcast

Stephanie Gagnon

162

DUPAMICAFFEINE | دوباميكافين

DUPAMICAFFEINE

163

پادکست آذرخش مکری

Dr Azarakhsh mokri

164

The Membership: A Wendell Berry Podcast

The Membership: A Wendell Berry Podcast

165

Book Talk for BookTok

Cloud10

166

The Book Show

ABC Australia

167

Soul & Story

Sara R. Turnquist

168

Fantasy FanReads

Fantasy Fangirls Media Network

169

Master Fiction Writing

Stuart Wakefield

170

Blourish & Flotts: Beautifully Retold

Blourish and Flotts

171

Borrowed & Returned

Brooklyn Public Library

172

Traditional Catholic Audiobooks

SGZ

173

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Loyal Books

174

Parseh Podcast (پادکست پرسه)

Abbas Seyedein

175

Well-Read

Ann Cox and Halle Carlson

176

Politics and Prose Presents

Politics and Prose

177

The Great Books

National Review

178

The History Of Middle Earth

J.R.R. Tolkien

179

Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club

Plosive

180

America’s Book Club

C-SPAN

181

Take Four Books

BBC Radio 4

182

LARB Radio Hour

Los Angeles Review of Books

183

[KBS] 작은 서점

KBS

184

Dozing Off | Deep Voice ASMR Bedtime Stories

Lance Lewis

185

Ulysses - James Joyce

RTÉ

186

The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

Kelton Reid

187

Basic and Bookish

Kinsey and Karly

188

Critical Magic Theory: An Analytical Harry Potter Podcast

Prof. Julian Wamble

189

Wodcast

Into the Words

190

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

191

Walking With Dante

Mark Scarbrough

192

My Marvelous Year

By Dave Buesing (Comic Book Herald), Charlotte Fierro, & Zack

193

The Vaccine Book with Dr. Bob Sears - Companion Podcast

Dr. Bob Sears

194

Plot Twist, Please

Susannah, Beth and Cass

195

The Wizard Wheezes

OllivandersVoices

196

PASSAGES: On Morrison

Namwali Serpell, Random House

197

Today's Tolkien Times

The Prancing Pony Podcast

198

Novel Theories

Nicole and Meghan

199

Meagan's Book Club Podcast

Meagan Briggs

200

A Song of Spice and Rhani

Rhani Alam

201

کتاب صوتی ناصر زراعتی - Ketab soti

Ketab soti

202

Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books

Melissa & Dave

203

The Lubber’s Hole - A Patrick O’Brian Podcast

Mike & Ian

204

The Book Club Review

The Book Club Review

205

Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast

NotACast

206

The Great Books of Literature Podcast

Institute Of Public Affairs

207

Positive Distraction with Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

208

The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Dick Barr

209

کتاب صوتی با شی لا

Shila Severi

210

MWI Book Club

John Amble and Theo Lipsky

211

The PalFest Podcast

The Palestine Festival of Literature

212

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Loyal Books

213

Serpent and Scholar - Dramione Fanfiction

The Audiobook Alchemist

214

🟡 Free Audiobooks: Classic Books

Free Audiobook Library

215

Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth

Pushkin Industries

216

Books and Boba

Potluck Podcast Collective

217

A Good Read

BBC Radio 4

218

In Your Spare Time: From the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation

219

Alzabo Soup

Philip Armstrong and Andrew Metzroth

220

Librivox Audiobooks

Librivox Audiobooks

221

Daily Short Stories - Mystery & Suspense

Sol Good Network

222

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

223

The Archive Project

Literary Arts

224

Hardcover Hooligans

Hardcover Hooligans

225

2 To Ramble

Austin & Richard

226

QWERTY: A Podcast for Writers on How to Live the Writing Life

Marion Roach Smith

227

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

228

PLOT TWIST

Soman Chainani and Victoria Aveyard

229

Literally Reading

Literally Reading

230

Novel Marketing

Thomas Umstattd Jr.

231

半拿铁·故事篇

刘飞Lufy

232

أسمار

Mics مايكس

233

Old School with Shilo Brooks

The Free Press

234

Radio Westeros ASOIAF Podcast

Radio Westeros

235

StoryKind

Kelly Yang

236

The Tolkien Road

The Tolkien Road

237

The Play's the Thing

CiRCE Podcast Network

238

Great Audiobooks

Great Literature

239

Story Grid Writing Podcast

Shawn Coyne and Tim Grahl

240

Austen Chat

Jane Austen Society of North America

241

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara

Brendan O'Meara

242

Mythgard's Exploring The Lord of the Rings

Mythgard Institute

243

Ten Very Big Books - A Malazan Readthrough Podcast

Ten Very Big Books

244

Smut Talks by Bothered Stories

Bothered Stories

245

Heaving Bosoms

Heaving Bosoms Productions, Bleav

246

كتب غيّرتنا

Asharq Podcasts | الشرق بودكاست

247

Bookshelfie: Women’s Prize Podcast

Women’s Prize Podcast/ Bird Lime Media

248

Teen Creeps

Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai

249

The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast

Bloody FM

250

The High Fae Housewives Podcast

The High Fae Housewives Podcast

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