Amazon's 50 Best-Selling Books of All-Time, a New FOURTH WING (sorta), a Fierce AI Lawsuit, and much more.
Book Riot - The Podcast
07/20/26
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Jeff gets off some takes before the show gets going to talk about Amazon's best-selling books of all-time, a formidable new AI lawsuit, sales of THE ODYSSEY editions, recent reading, and much more.
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Amazon’s 50 bestselling books of all time
Publishers launch new suit against Google for using digital to train Gemini
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Jeff and Rebecca enjoy The Odyssey afterglow, lament AI slop biographies, cover a bunch of adaptation news, recent reading, and much more.
Jeff gets off some takes before the show gets going to talk about Amazon’s best-selling books of all-time, a formidable new AI lawsuit, sales of THE ODYSSEY editions, recent reading, and much more.
Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening.
Discussed in this episode:
Emily Wilson’s comments on Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey
Book Riot’s best adaptations of the century so far
Judge approves settlement in Anthropic copyright case
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New Taylor Jenkins Reid novel in March (same day as Percival Everett)
Apple already has the rights to adapt Rebecca Yarros’s next (non-Fourth Wing) novel
Sony picks up The Silent Patient for fast-tracked adaptation
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