Top Books Podcasts in United States

The latest Apple Podcasts Books chart for United States, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked November 2, 2026.

1

Fresh Air

NPR

2

The New Yorker: Fiction

The New Yorker

3

The Book Review

The New York Times

4

Fantasy Fangirls

Fantasy Fangirls

5

The Book Club

Goalhanger

6

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod

7

Selected Shorts

Symphony Space

8

Storytime for Grownups

Faith Moore

9

The Literary Life Podcast

Angelina Stanford Thomas Banks

10

Jeselnik Book Club

The Ringer

11

Poetry Unbound

On Being Studios

12

DTFae

DTFae Podcast

13

Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Stories

Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Pod

14

Zero to Well-Read

Book Riot

15

Ashley After Dark:Stories For After Hours

Ashley Van-De-Cruize Lampkin

16

It Was A Book First

It Was A Book First

17

NPR's Book of the Day

NPR

18

Off The Shelf with Morgann Book

Bookish Media

19

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson / The Podglomerate

20

Hello Crawlers - A Dungeon Crawler Carl Podcast

Grant Davis

21

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

22

What Should I Read Next?

Anne Bogel

23

The Prancing Pony Podcast

The Prancing Pony Podcast

24

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Monday Schwartz and Kaytee Cobb

25

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

Merriam-Webster

26

Naaji /ناجـی

Pari

27

Dragons in the Details: A Romantasy Deep Dive Podcast

Abby and Ronnie | Huge Book Nerds

28

Literature and History

Doug Metzger

29

The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast

Bloody FM

30

Overdue

Headgum

31

Book Riot - The Podcast

Book Riot

32

Close Readings

London Review of Books

33

Marlon and Jake Read Dead People

Penguin Random House

34

Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa

Service95

35

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra

36

Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

Fated Mates

37

文化有限

文化有限

38

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

39

Wrapup | رپاپ

amir soodbakhsh

40

Reading Ferdowsi فردوسی خوانی

Amir Khadem

41

Prose Society with Eli Rallo

iHeartPodcasts

42

Hardcore Literature

Benjamin McEvoy

43

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

44

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Noe

45

Jane Austen Bedtime Stories

Jane Austen Bedtime Pod

46

The Clearing with Katherine May

Katherine May

47

The New Yorker: Poetry

The New Yorker

48

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman & Olivia Muenter

49

The Emmas

The Emmas

50

Reading Glasses

Brea Grant and Mallory O'Meara

51

Book Talk, etc.

Tina @tbretc and Hannah @hanpickedbooks

52

The Book Case

ABC News | Charlie Gibson, Kate Gibson

53

Shelf Respect

Shelf Respect

54

Poured Over

Barnes & Noble

55

بیوگرافی

Mona

56

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

57

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson | Sarah's Bookshelves

58

The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told

iHeartPodcasts

59

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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

60

Shelved By Genre

Ranged Touch

61

Writers on Writing

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone

62

The Newest Olympian

Mike Schubert

63

The Chris Hedges Report

Chris Hedges

64

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

65

Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

Doof! Media

66

The Paris Review

The Paris Review

67

Classic Audiobooks Collection

Graham Whitmore

68

MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

Harry Potter

69

All About Agatha Christie

Christie

70

Scholé Every Day: A Book Club for Regular People

Brandy Vencel, Mystie Winckler, and Abby Wahl

71

Flights of Fantasy

Flights of Fantasy

72

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

Savannah Gilbo

73

Gom Jabbar: A Dune Podcast

Lore Party Media

74

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

History of Westeros

75

Exploring The Greats

Exploring The Greats

76

داستان شب

DASTANESHAB

77

The Thing About Austen

The Thing About Austen

78

Gay Erotica by Liam Williams

Liam Williams

79

This Is The Thing With Bev and Lindsay

Bev and Lindsay

80

Fantasy FanFellas

Fantasy Fangirls Media Network

81

Books, Beach, & Beyond

Elin Hilderbrand, Tim Talks Books, N Magazine

82

LPN Deep Dives: Crescent City

The Last Podcast Network

83

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

84

Booknotes+

C-SPAN

85

Books That Made Me

Aidan Flax-Clark

86

America’s Book Club

C-SPAN

87

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

Afrori Books

88

Adriana Trigiani's You Are What You Read

Adriana Trigiani

89

In Deep Geek

indeepgeek

90

Dedicated with Doug Brunt

SiriusXM

91

Ryers Readers

Ashley

92

کتاب صوتی ناصر زراعتی - Ketab soti

Ketab soti

93

Backlisted

Backlisted

94

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

95

The High Fae Housewives Podcast

The High Fae Housewives Podcast

96

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

Robots Radio

97

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

98

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

Agatha Christie

99

هزارداستانHazardastan

Mehran mantashi

100

Reading Smut

Brea Grant, Mallory O’Meara

101

Just King Things

Ranged Touch

102

Dastaminophen| شاهنامه با داستامینوفن

Dastaminophen

103

Otherppl with Brad Listi | Books & Culture

Brad Listi

104

London Review Bookshop Podcast

London Review Bookshop

105

Fictional

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser | Nextpod

106

Dracula - Audiobook by Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker

107

Secret Life of Books

Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole

108

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

Tara A. Devlin

109

Treasure Island

NOISER

110

Talking Scared

Neil McRobert

111

C-SPAN Bookshelf

C-SPAN

112

Barbican Station - A Slow Horses Podcast

Spy Write

113

Friends & Fiction

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

114

Outdoorsy Women+ Book Pod

Christine Reed

115

The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

Loyal Books

116

Dracula by Bram Stoker. Complete and Unabridged.

Mike Bennett

117

I'll Read What She's Reading

I'll Read What She's Reading

118

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

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions

119

美西螈与东方巨龙

美西螈与东方巨龙

120

下一本讀什麼？

閱讀前哨站瓦基

121

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

122

Daily Mass Readings

Augustine Institute

123

Dozing Off | Deep Voice ASMR Bedtime Stories

Lance Lewis

124

The Bookshelf Chronicles

AC Wilson

125

LARB Radio Hour

Los Angeles Review of Books

126

Zaila

A. Van-De-Cruize

127

Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books

Melissa & Dave

128

Book Lounge by Libby

Book Lounge by Libby

129

پادکست جعبه // Jabe Persian Podcast (Mansour Zabetian)

Jabe podcast

130

The Same Page Book Club

Barstool Sports

131

Real or Not Real: A Hunger Games Podcast

Darinda and Hallee

132

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Loyal Books

133

Books From Your Therapist

Tara Cremin & Amanda Throckmorton

134

Novel Theories

Nicole and Meghan

135

Spoil Me! Dungeon Crawler Carl

UNspoiled! Network

136

The Wizard Wheezes

OllivandersVoices

137

The Strike & Ellacott Files

The Strike and Ellacott Files

138

Books Unbound

Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay

139

Book Talk for BookTok

Cloud10

140

Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller

Minnesota Public Radio

141

Take Four Books

BBC Radio 4

142

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

Joanna Penn

143

Poetry Off the Shelf

Poetry Foundation

144

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

Mike & Ian

145

Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan

146

Classic Poetry Aloud

Classic Poetry Aloud

147

Rereading the Revolution

Kellie and Daphne

148

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

149

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

Tali Rosenblatt Cohen

150

The Wheel Weaves Podcast: A Wheel of Time Podcast

Dani and Brett

151

All the Books!

Book Riot

152

Ulysses - James Joyce

RTÉ

153

Life On Books Podcast

Life On Books

154

Mythgard's Exploring The Lord of the Rings

Mythgard Institute

155

كنوز السيرة للشيخ عثمان الخميس

Podcast Record

156

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

Cory Doctorow

157

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158

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

Kristina Horner & Liz Leo

159

Blourish & Flotts: Beautifully Retold

Blourish and Flotts

160

Politics and Prose Presents

Politics and Prose

161

Medieval Death Trip

Medieval Death Trip

162

Zombie Apocalypse Stories

Fulya Tezcon

163

مُلخص كتاب

Podcast Record

164

Everything Cookbooks

Andrea Nguyen, Molly Stevens, Kate Leahy, Kristin Donnelly

165

Swish and Flick: A Harry Potter Podcast

Swish and Flick Podcast

166

Radio Westeros ASOIAF Podcast

Radio Westeros

167

Workers' Lit

Workers' Lit

168

پادکست آذرخش مکری

Dr Azarakhsh mokri

169

Bare Bones Book Club

Stacy Hinojosa

170

A Good Read

BBC Radio 4

171

Bookworm

KCRW

172

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

Kelton Reid

173

Baldwin & Co. Author Talks

DJ Johnson

174

Traditional Catholic Audiobooks

SGZ

175

Classic Audiobook Collection

Classic Audiobook Collection LLC

176

Pride and Prejudice

Ballarat National Theatre

177

Serpent and Scholar - Dramione Fanfiction

The Audiobook Alchemist

178

리딩 케미스트리

이다혜,밀리의 서재

179

Fantasy FanReads

Fantasy Fangirls Media Network

180

Parseh Podcast (پادکست پرسه)

Abbas Seyedein

181

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

182

Miss Marple Sleep Stories

Fulya Tezcon

183

The Book Show

ABC Australia

184

Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club

Plosive

185

Wodcast

Into the Words

186

The History Of Middle Earth

J.R.R. Tolkien

187

A Song of Spice and Rhani

Rhani Alam

188

Making It Up As We Go

Making It Up As We Go

189

Critical Magic Theory: An Analytical Harry Potter Podcast

Prof. Julian Wamble

190

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara

Brendan O'Meara

191

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Ballarat National Theatre

192

Positive Distraction with Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

193

My Marvelous Year

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

194

Audio Poem of the Day

Poetry Foundation

195

No Write Way with V. E. Schwab

V. E. Schwab (Author)

196

Read Me Romance

Read Me Romance

197

Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club

Reese's Book Club

198

Austen Chat

Jane Austen Society of North America

199

Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast

NotACast

200

The Tolkien Road

The Tolkien Road

201

Knowledge = Power

Rita

202

رادیو گوشه

رادیو گوشه

203

Bookends with Mattea Roach

CBC

204

Inklings Book Club

Jack Edwards

205

ketabe-soti-free

Ketabe-soti

206

Today's Tolkien Times

The Prancing Pony Podcast

207

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

Marion Roach Smith

208

Strange Bedfellows

Jack Shepherd and Tanner Greenring

209

Sherlock Holmes Complete Audiobook Collection

Appbly.com

210

Jane Austen's Paper Trail

The Conversation

211

Writer's Routine

Dan Simpson

212

کتاب صوتی با شی لا

Shila Severi

213

2 To Ramble

Austin & Richard

214

Librivox Audiobooks

Librivox Audiobooks

215

蜜獾吃书

蜜獾吃书

216

Booked On Fantasy Podcast

Addison & Lorraine

217

The Poetry Space_

Katie Dozier and Timothy Green

218

Well-Read

Ann Cox and Halle Carlson

219

The Archive Project

Literary Arts

220

Daily Short Stories - Mystery & Suspense

Sol Good Network

221

Walking With Dante

Mark Scarbrough

222

Great Audiobooks

Great Literature

223

Meagan's Book Club Podcast

Meagan Briggs

224

ГОВОРИТ ВАФИН

Jura.Vafin

225

A Cozy Christmas Podcast

ArtK

226

The le Carré Cast - A podcast on John le Carré novels

The le Carre Cast

227

DUPAMICAFFEINE | دوباميكافين

DUPAMICAFFEINE

228

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

229

The Well Read Poem

Thomas Banks

230

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Loyal Books

231

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

Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation

232

Alzabo Soup

Philip Armstrong and Andrew Metzroth

233

The HAL Podcast

The Human Arts of Leadership

234

Teen Creeps

Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai

235

Richie's Audiobooks

Richie

236

Plot Twist, Please

Susannah, Beth and Cass

237

The Great Books

National Review

238

Book Off!

Book Off!

239

The Sons of Ares: A Red Rising Saga Podcast

Charles Snowdon, Cullen Burke

240

Literally Reading

Literally Reading

241

Закладка | Эхо

Эхо Подкасты

242

A Dana Perino Podcast: Everything Will Be Okay

FOX News Podcasts

243

Master Fiction Writing

Stuart Wakefield

244

A Good Read

BBC Radio 4

245

Heaving Bosoms

Heaving Bosoms Productions, Bleav

246

Stygian Sagas

Kryder Van Buskirk

247

Books in the Freezer - A Horror Fiction Podcast

Stephanie Gagnon

248

The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast

Bloody FM

249

The Book Club Review

The Book Club Review

250

Pod and Prejudice

Molly Burdick

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