The It Books of August 2026
Book Riot - The Podcast
08/05/26
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Jeff and Rebecca try to identify the It Book of August 2026. And are pretty sure they didn't succeed.
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Previous Episode
Jeff and Rebecca talk about Emily Wilson's pan of Nolan's The Odyssey, before checking in on the Booker longlist, Obama's summer reading picks, and the most troubling AI/publishing story yet.
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Discussed in this episode:
Emily Wilson hated The Odyssey, actually, and her unedited remarks to the AP
Joyce Carol Oates has entered the chat
And everybody wants to learn Greek
The most read books on Goodreads this year
A viral BookTok hit might be largely AI-generated
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Next Episode
Jeff and Rebecca check in the last gasp of Emily Wilson's The Odyssey discourse, The New York Times' list of the Best Thrillers of the Century so Far, on-going developments in AI accusations in publishing, recent reading, and much more.
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Discussed in this episode:
Update: The Wilson pan of The Odyssey is so big that The Onion parodied it, and Emily Wilson wrote another one!
Book with $2.4 million advance pulled over AI allegations
NYT names the 50 best thrillers of the century so far
Apple is developing an adaptation of Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy
Naomi Alderman’s “couch to 5k” for reading
GRRM issues our regularly scheduled reminder that The Winds of Winter is never happening
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