Podcasts · Books · Apple chart November 9, 2026
Top 100 Books podcasts
The top 100 books podcasts on the Apple Podcasts US chart for November 9, 2026, with episode counts and host contacts in Media List.
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#1
Fresh AirNPR
300episodes
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#2
Myths and LegendsJason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod
540episodes
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#3
Fantasy FangirlsFantasy Fangirls
211episodes
#1Fresh Air on the Books chart
268episodes, typical show here
1published in the 30 days before November 8, 2026
45shows here with a host contact you can unlock
Key facts
- Fresh Air is #1 on the Apple Podcasts US Books chart for November 9, 2026.
- The top five positions shown here are Fresh Air (#1), Myths and Legends (#2), Fantasy Fangirls (#3), Selected Shorts (#4), The Book Club (#5).
- The typical show here has about 268 episodes (Media List's podcast data as of November 8, 2026).
- 45 of the 100 shows on this page have a host contact in Media List.
- Chart checked .
The chart
Top 100 books podcasts, by Apple chart position
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| # | Show | Episodes | Apple | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Top 25 Books podcasts | ||||
| 1 | Fresh Air NPR |
300 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 2 | Myths and Legends Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod |
540 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 3 | Fantasy Fangirls Fantasy Fangirls |
211 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 4 |  Selected Shorts Symphony Space |
36 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 5 |  The Book Club Goalhanger |
33 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 6 |  The New Yorker: Fiction The New Yorker |
235 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 7 |  The Chris Hedges Report Chris Hedges |
100 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 8 |  The Book Review The New York Times |
600 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 9 |  Storytime for Grownups Faith Moore |
254 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 10 |  Hello Crawlers - A Dungeon Crawler Carl Podcast Grant Davis |
71 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 11 |  What Should I Read Next? Anne Bogel |
542 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 12 |  The Currently Reading Podcast Meredith Monday Schwartz and Kaytee Cobb |
454 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 13 |  The Prancing Pony Podcast The Prancing Pony Podcast |
424 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 14 |  Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Stories Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Pod |
178 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 15 |  NPR's Book of the Day NPR |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 16 |  Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast Chelsea Devantez |
268 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 17 |  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day Merriam-Webster |
10 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 18 |  Bad On Paper Becca Freeman & Olivia Muenter |
442 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 19 |  Shelf Respect Shelf Respect |
18 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 20 |  Shelved By Genre Ranged Touch |
87 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 21 |  DTFae DTFae Podcast |
192 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 22 |  Jeselnik Book Club The Ringer |
1 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 23 |  From the Front Porch The Bookshelf Thomasville |
614 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 24 |  Dragons in the Details: A Romantasy Deep Dive Podcast Abby and Ronnie | Huge Book Nerds |
85 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 25 |  Zero to Well-Read Book Riot |
59 | Listen | Unlock contact |
Top 50, positions 26 to 50 | ||||
| 26 |  CEREBRO Connor Goldsmith |
154 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 27 |  Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People Fated Mates |
419 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 28 |  Literature and History Doug Metzger |
129 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 29 |  The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast Bloody FM |
568 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 30 |  The Literary Life Podcast Angelina Stanford Thomas Banks |
345 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 31 |  Poetry Unbound On Being Studios |
228 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 32 |  Naaji /ناجـی Pari |
106 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 33 |  The Newest Olympian Mike Schubert |
269 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 34 |  The Shit No One Tells You About Writing Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra |
449 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 35 |  Book Riot - The Podcast Book Riot |
932 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 36 |  Reading Glasses Brea Grant and Mallory O'Meara |
490 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 37 |  The Book Case ABC News | Charlie Gibson, Kate Gibson |
228 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 38 |  Overdue Headgum |
835 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 39 |  Ryers Readers Ashley |
308 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 40 |  Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast Doof! Media |
268 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 41 |  Book Talk, etc. Tina @tbretc and Hannah @hanpickedbooks |
271 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 42 |  Radio Westeros ASOIAF Podcast Radio Westeros |
170 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 43 | Reading Ferdowsi فردوسی خوانی Amir Khadem |
– | Listen | Similar shows |
| 44 |  Wrapup | رپاپ amir soodbakhsh |
42 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 45 |  MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast Harry Potter |
789 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 46 |  It Was A Book First It Was A Book First |
16 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 47 |  Jane Austen Bedtime Stories Jane Austen Bedtime Pod |
252 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 48 |  Gom Jabbar: A Dune Podcast Lore Party Media |
309 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 49 |  Poured Over Barnes & Noble |
753 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 50 |  The Thing About Austen The Thing About Austen |
121 | Listen | Unlock contact |
Positions 51 to 100 | ||||
| 51 |  Off The Shelf with Morgann Book Bookish Media |
60 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 52 |  In Deep Geek indeepgeek |
372 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 53 |  文化有限 文化有限 |
360 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 54 |  Close Reads Podcast Goldberry Studios |
267 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 55 |  Gay Erotica by Liam Williams Liam Williams |
82 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 56 |  Classical Stuff You Should Know A.J. Hanenburg, Graeme Donaldson, and Thomas Magbee |
300 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 57 |  Reading Smut Brea Grant, Mallory O’Meara |
51 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 58 |  LPN Deep Dives: Crescent City The Last Podcast Network |
141 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 59 |  Booknotes+ C-SPAN |
293 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 60 |  History of Westeros - A Song of Ice and Fire | Game of Thrones | HOTD | AKOTSK History of Westeros |
420 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 61 |  کتاب صوتی ناصر زراعتی - Ketab soti Ketab soti |
1,000+ | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 62 |  Fantasy FanFellas Fantasy Fangirls Media Network |
41 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 63 |  داستان شب DASTANESHAB |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 64 |  Totally Booked with Zibby Zibby Owens |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 65 |  The History of Literature Jacke Wilson / The Podglomerate |
784 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 66 |  Book Talk for BookTok Cloud10 |
442 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 67 |  Close Readings London Review of Books |
221 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 68 |  Secret Life of Books Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole |
152 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 69 |  Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes |
570 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 70 |  هزارداستانHazardastan Mehran mantashi |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 71 |  Lord of the Rings Lorecast - J.R.R. Tolkien's World & Writings Explained Robots Radio |
230 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 72 |  Flights of Fantasy Flights of Fantasy |
180 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 73 |  The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told iHeartPodcasts |
41 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 74 |  Sarah's Bookshelves Live Sarah Dickinson | Sarah's Bookshelves |
245 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 75 |  The New Yorker: Poetry The New Yorker |
129 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 76 |  The Paris Review The Paris Review |
49 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 77 |  Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet Tara A. Devlin |
239 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 78 |  Books, Beach, & Beyond Elin Hilderbrand, Tim Talks Books, N Magazine |
50 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 79 |  Prose Society with Eli Rallo iHeartPodcasts |
7 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 80 |  Talking Scared Neil McRobert |
350 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 81 |  The Wheel Weaves Podcast: A Wheel of Time Podcast Dani and Brett |
516 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 82 |  Adriana Trigiani's You Are What You Read Adriana Trigiani |
166 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 83 |  The Wizard Wheezes OllivandersVoices |
124 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 84 |  Marlon and Jake Read Dead People Penguin Random House |
35 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 85 |  Dedicated with Doug Brunt SiriusXM |
120 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 86 |  The Stacks Traci Thomas |
521 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 87 |  Fiction Writing Made Easy with Savannah Gilbo | How to Write a Novel & Writing Advice Savannah Gilbo |
280 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 88 | بیوگرافی Mona |
– | Listen | Similar shows |
| 89 |  All About Agatha Christie Christie |
324 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 90 |  Otherppl with Brad Listi | Books & Culture Brad Listi |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 91 |  The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast Strange Studies of Strange Stories |
268 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 92 |  Mythgard's Exploring The Lord of the Rings Mythgard Institute |
384 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 93 |  All the Books! Book Riot |
1,000+ | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 94 |  Friends & Fiction Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Patti Callahan Henry, Ron Block, Bleav |
481 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 95 |  Real or Not Real: A Hunger Games Podcast Darinda and Hallee |
59 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 96 |  C-SPAN Bookshelf C-SPAN |
563 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 97 |  Backlisted Backlisted |
274 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 98 | Fictional Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser | Nextpod |
58 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 99 |  Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry David Naimon, Milkweed Editions |
353 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 100 |  Just King Things Ranged Touch |
79 | Listen | Similar shows |
How this list is made
Chart positions from Apple Podcasts (US), November 9, 2026. Positions follow Apple's chart, and a show removed on request leaves a gap. We check the charts every week. Episode counts come from Media List's podcast data as of November 8, 2026; Podcast Index caps counts at 1,000, so 1,000+ means at least that many. Host contacts unlock in Media List where we hold one for the show.
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What are the top books podcasts right now?
On the Apple Podcasts US Books chart for November 9, 2026, the top five positions shown here are Fresh Air (#1), Myths and Legends (#2), Fantasy Fangirls (#3), Selected Shorts (#4), The Book Club (#5).
How is this list ranked?
By chart position on the Apple Podcasts US Books chart on November 9, 2026. Positions follow Apple's chart, and a show removed on request leaves a gap. Media List adds episode counts and host contacts.
How often is this list updated?
We check the Apple Podcasts charts every week. The date above is the date of the chart shown on this page.
Can I contact these podcast hosts?
45 of the shows on this list have a host contact in Media List. Plans start at $99 a month.
How many episodes do these podcasts have?
The typical show on this list has about 268 episodes, based on Media List's podcast data as of November 8, 2026.
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