Top Books Podcasts in United States

The latest Apple Podcasts Books chart for United States, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked August 30, 2026.

1

Fresh Air

NPR

2

The Book Review

The New York Times

3

The Book Club

Goalhanger

4

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod

5

Selected Shorts

Symphony Space

6

Naaji /ناجـی

Pari

7

Fantasy Fangirls

Fantasy Fangirls

8

The New Yorker: Fiction

The New Yorker

9

Hello Crawlers - A Dungeon Crawler Carl Podcast

Grant Davis

10

Off The Shelf with Morgann Book

Bookish Media

11

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

12

It Was A Book First

It Was A Book First

13

NPR's Book of the Day

NPR

14

What Should I Read Next?

Anne Bogel

15

The Chris Hedges Report

Chris Hedges

16

Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Stories

Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Pod

17

Scholé Every Day: A Book Club for Regular People

Brandy Vencel, Mystie Winckler, and Abby Wahl

18

Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books

Melissa & Dave

19

Prose Society with Eli Rallo

iHeartPodcasts

20

Zero to Well-Read

Book Riot

21

Storytime for Grownups

Faith Moore

22

The Stories Writers Tell Themselves

Katherine

23

Poetry Unbound

On Being Studios

24

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

25

Overdue

Headgum

26

Shelved By Genre

Ranged Touch

27

The Literary Life Podcast

Angelina Stanford Thomas Banks

28

Literature and History

Doug Metzger

29

Books, Beach, & Beyond

Elin Hilderbrand, Tim Talks Books, N Magazine

30

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Monday Schwartz and Kaytee Cobb

31

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

Merriam-Webster

32

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra

33

The Prancing Pony Podcast

The Prancing Pony Podcast

34

Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa

Service95

35

The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast

Bloody FM

36

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

37

Dragons in the Details: A Crescent City & Maasverse Deep Dive Podcast

Abby and Ronnie | Huge Book Nerds

38

Book Riot - The Podcast

Book Riot

39

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson | Sarah's Bookshelves

40

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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

41

Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

Fated Mates

42

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman & Olivia Muenter

43

Reading Glasses

Brea Grant and Mallory O'Meara

44

The Book Case

ABC News | Charlie Gibson, Kate Gibson

45

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

History of Westeros

46

MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

Harry Potter

47

Book Talk, etc.

Tina @tbretc and Hannah @hanpickedbooks

48

The New Yorker: Poetry

The New Yorker

49

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

50

文化有限

文化有限

51

Fantasy FanFellas

Fantasy Fangirls Media Network

52

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson / The Podglomerate

53

DTFae

DTFae Podcast

54

PASSAGES: On Morrison

Namwali Serpell, Random House

55

Well-Read

Ann Cox and Halle Carlson

56

The Newest Olympian

Mike Schubert

57

Espiral con Karen Codner

Karen Codner

58

Jane Austen Bedtime Stories

Jane Austen Bedtime Pod

59

The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told

iHeartPodcasts

60

Gom Jabbar: A Dune Podcast

Lore Party Media

61

The High Fae Housewives Podcast

The High Fae Housewives Podcast

62

LPN Deep Dives: Crescent City

The Last Podcast Network

63

Adriana Trigiani's You Are What You Read

Adriana Trigiani

64

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

Savannah Gilbo

65

Poured Over

Barnes & Noble

66

All the Books!

Book Riot

67

The Thing About Austen

The Thing About Austen

68

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

69

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

70

Gay Erotica by Liam Williams

Liam Williams

71

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

72

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

73

Shelf Respect

Shelf Respect

74

Reading Ferdowsi فردوسی خوانی

Amir Khadem

75

Close Readings

London Review of Books

76

Ryers Readers

Ashley

77

Flights of Fantasy

Flights of Fantasy

78

داستان شب

DASTANESHAB

79

Spoil Me! Dungeon Crawler Carl

UNspoiled! Network

80

I'll Read What She's Reading

I'll Read What She's Reading

81

Writers on Writing

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone

82

Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast

NotACast

83

Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

Doof! Media

84

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

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions

85

The Same Page Book Club

Barstool Sports

86

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

Cory Doctorow

87

پادکست آذرخش مکری

Dr Azarakhsh mokri

88

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

Joanna Penn

89

Secret Life of Books

Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole

90

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

Robots Radio

91

Wrapup | رپاپ

amir soodbakhsh

92

Alzabo Soup

Philip Armstrong and Andrew Metzroth

93

Classic Audiobooks Collection

Graham Whitmore

94

Marlon and Jake Read Dead People

Penguin Random House

95

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

96

The Wheel Weaves Podcast: A Wheel of Time Podcast

Dani and Brett

97

The Strike & Ellacott Files

The Strike and Ellacott Files

98

Mythgard's Exploring The Lord of the Rings

Mythgard Institute

99

Friends & Fiction

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

100

Booknotes+

C-SPAN

101

Radio Westeros ASOIAF Podcast

Radio Westeros

102

BookVerse Talks

BookVerse Talks

103

Backlisted

Backlisted

104

Parseh Podcast (پادکست پرسه)

Abbas Seyedein

105

Kindred Spirits Book Club

Ragon Duffy and Kelly Gerner

106

All About Agatha Christie

Christie

107

Just King Things

Ranged Touch

108

Book Talk for BookTok

Cloud10

109

Blourish & Flotts: Beautifully Retold

Blourish and Flotts

110

Writer's Routine

Dan Simpson

111

In Deep Geek

indeepgeek

112

The Bookshelf Chronicles

AC Wilson

113

Exploring The Greats

Exploring The Greats

114

Hardcore Literature

Benjamin McEvoy

115

Great Audiobooks

Great Literature

116

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

117

Pod and Prejudice

Molly Burdick

118

پادکست جعبه // Jabe Persian Podcast (Mansour Zabetian)

Jabe podcast

119

Rereading the Revolution

Kellie and Daphne

120

Talking Scared

Neil McRobert

121

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Loyal Books

122

Book Lounge by Libby

Book Lounge by Libby

123

Sentimental Garbage

Justice for Dumb Women

124

LARB Radio Hour

Los Angeles Review of Books

125

Positive Distraction with Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

126

Classic Audiobook Collection

Classic Audiobook Collection LLC

127

London Review Bookshop Podcast

London Review Bookshop

128

Read Me Romance

Read Me Romance

129

Poetry Off the Shelf

Poetry Foundation

130

بیوگرافی

Mona

131

Earsay: The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club

iHeartPodcasts

132

下一本讀什麼？

閱讀前哨站瓦基

133

Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan

134

AMP Audiobooks : Amplifying the Joy of Fanfiction

AMP Audiobooks

135

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

Tara A. Devlin

136

Ulysses - James Joyce

RTÉ Radio 1

137

Meagan's Book Club Podcast

Meagan Briggs

138

Literally Reading

Literally Reading

139

Librivox Audiobooks

Librivox Audiobooks

140

Bookworm

KCRW

141

后续移步《慕柏读书》|精选美文

365读书

142

Real or Not Real: A Hunger Games Podcast

Darinda and Hallee

143

No Write Way with V. E. Schwab

V. E. Schwab (Author)

144

America’s Book Club

C-SPAN

145

Fictional

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser | Nextpod

146

Inklings Book Club

Jack Edwards

147

هزارداستانHazardastan

Mehran mantashi

148

Daily Mass Readings

Augustine Institute

149

SEP FanFic Readings

SEP FanFic Readings

150

It Gets Good

Hannah, Micaela and Kyleigh

151

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

152

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

153

Dozing Off | Deep Voice ASMR Bedtime Stories

Lance Lewis

154

Classic Poetry Aloud

Classic Poetry Aloud

155

Daily Short Stories - Mystery & Suspense

Sol Good Network

156

The Critic and Her Publics

Merve Emre

157

The Wizard Wheezes

OllivandersVoices

158

The Book Club | PragerU

PragerU

159

Walking With Dante

Mark Scarbrough

160

Swish and Flick: A Harry Potter Podcast

Swish and Flick Podcast

161

Old School with Shilo Brooks

The Free Press

162

The Odyssey

Homer

163

Reading Smut

Brea Grant, Mallory O’Meara

164

Today's Tolkien Times

The Prancing Pony Podcast

165

Heaving Bosoms

Heaving Bosoms Productions, Bleav

166

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

Agatha Christie

167

Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club

Reese's Book Club

168

Among the Ancients

London Review of Books

169

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

Mike & Ian

170

Fantasy FanReads

Fantasy Fangirls Media Network

171

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

Kelton Reid

172

مُلخص كتاب

Podcast Record

173

Kris and Mads

Kristen and Maddie

174

Audio Poem of the Day

Poetry Foundation

175

半拿铁·故事篇

刘飞Lufy

176

ketabe-soti-free

Ketabe-soti

177

Plot Twist, Please

Susannah, Beth and Cass

178

Wodcast

Into the Words

179

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180

The Poetry Space_

Katie Dozier and Timothy Green

181

Talk Spicy To Me

Giana Darling and Kandi Steiner

182

Double Love

HeadStuff Podcasts

183

Sherlock Holmes Complete Audiobook Collection

Appbly.com

184

Alt Shift X Podcast

Alt Shift X

185

PLOT TWIST

Soman Chainani and Victoria Aveyard

186

كنوز السيرة للشيخ عثمان الخميس

Podcast Record

187

Jane Austen's Paper Trail

The Conversation

188

ClancyPasta | Internet Horror Stories

ClancyPasta

189

Take Four Books

BBC Radio 4

190

C-SPAN Bookshelf

C-SPAN

191

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Unabridged) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Mentor New York

192

2 To Ramble

Austin & Richard

193

Dastaminophen| شاهنامه با داستامینوفن

Dastaminophen

194

DUPAMICAFFEINE | دوباميكافين

DUPAMICAFFEINE

195

Books Unbound

Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay

196

Dracula by Bram Stoker. Complete and Unabridged.

Mike Bennett

197

Critical Magic Theory: An Analytical Harry Potter Podcast

Prof. Julian Wamble

198

Dedicated with Doug Brunt

SiriusXM

199

Spybrary Spy Podcast

Shane Whaley

200

A Good Read

BBC Radio 4

201

Trap Poet's Society

Cree Myles and Bryan Rogers

202

Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club

Plosive

203

کتاب صوتی ناصر زراعتی - Ketab soti

Ketab soti

204

Smut Up and Listen!

Smut Up and Listen!

205

LalaLand | لالالند

Arash kaviani

206

[KBS] 작은 서점

KBS

207

Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller

Minnesota Public Radio

208

First Wing: A Fourth Wing Podcast

Briana and Kendra

209

Book of the Month Live

Book of the Month

210

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Ballarat National Theatre

211

Strange Bedfellows

Jack Shepherd and Tanner Greenring

212

The Tolkien Professor

The Tolkien Professor (Corey Olsen)

213

Knowledge = Power

Rita

214

Books in the Freezer - A Horror Fiction Podcast

Stephanie Gagnon

215

Grandma Kerri’s Sleepy Time Classics

kerrinhunt

216

Those Snowy Nights You Read to Me, They'll Never Be Forgotten

Soren Narnia

217

리딩 케미스트리

이다혜,밀리의 서재

218

The Appalachian Folklore Podcast

Aaron Bobick

219

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

Mitzi Rapkin

220

Between Pages & Friends

Between Pages & Friends

221

3 Books With Neil Pasricha

Neil Pasricha: Bestselling Author

222

Ten Very Big Books - A Malazan Readthrough Podcast

Ten Very Big Books

223

The 9/11 Commission Report by The 9/11 Commission

Loyal Books

224

Everything Cookbooks

Andrea Nguyen, Molly Stevens, Kate Leahy, Kristin Donnelly

225

The Clearing with Katherine May

Katherine May

226

Girls Gone Canon Cast

Girls Gone Canon

227

پادکست فارسی انسانک | Ensanak

Hesam Ipakchi

228

Culture Nightcap

culturenightcap

229

Wilder

Influential Media

230

Chinese Lore Podcast

John Zhu

231

Let’s Talk Memoir

Ronit Plank

232

The History Of Middle Earth

J.R.R. Tolkien

233

Borrowed & Returned

Brooklyn Public Library

234

Novel Marketing

Thomas Umstattd Jr.

235

Marvel by the Month

Bryan Stratton, Jamie Wenger, Robb Milne

236

Read Rant Review

Kaylee

237

Books and Boba

Potluck Podcast Collective

238

Our State Book Club

Wiley Cash

239

Book Club with Michael Smerconish

SiriusXM

240

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

Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation

241

The Foxed Page

Kimberly Ford

242

Smart Podcast, Trashy Books: A Romance Novel Podcast

Sarah Wendell

243

موسوعة الكتب الصوتية

Podcast Record

244

蜜獾吃书

蜜獾吃书

245

The First Draft Club

By Mary Adkins | Author & Book Writing Coach

246

Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness

Strangers In a Tangled Widerness

247

Medieval Death Trip

Medieval Death Trip

248

Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

Brent Gaisford, Cody Troyer

249

My Marvelous Year

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

250

Bookends with Mattea Roach

CBC

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