Rebecca Schinsky is back to help Jeff pick the "it" book of June, and S.A. Cosby, author of the forthcoming All the Sinners Bleed, tells a reading story. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: Check out First Edition on Twitter, on Substack, and on Instagram. And if you have a moment to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, please and thank you! I Am Homeless If This is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore The 272 by Rachel Swarns All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby Five Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand Be Mine by Richard Ford The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende Pageboy by Eliot Page Watch Us Dance by Leila Slimani Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of The Kite Runner, author Khaled Hosseini joins Book Riot CEO Jeff O’Neal to talk about the creation, publication, and long-life of the literary phenomenon. Check out First Edition on Twitter, on Substack, and on Instagram. And if you have a moment to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, please and thank you! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca Schinsky is back to help Jeff figure out what the It book of May will be. And Book Riot editor Erica Ezeifedi comes on to debut a new First Edition segment, Reading Stories. Check out First Edition on Twitter, on Substack, and on Instagram. And if you have a moment to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, please and thank you! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this Episode: The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Ajdei-Brenyah The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Traffic by Ben Smith The Ferryman by Justin Cronin Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor Hey, Hun by Emily Lynn Paulson Yellowface by R.F. Kuang Sing Her Down by Ivy Pachoda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Book Riot editors Vanessa Diaz and Kelly Jensen come on to talk about the long legacy of Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret in anticipation of the big new adaptation. Then Jeff talks to Professor Sarah Hart, author of the new book Once Upon a Prime, about the confluence of mathematics and literature. And finally, Professor Erica Williams on Nella Larsen, on the occasion of the new collection of her work: The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Relevant links! Are Your There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Bloom Once Upon a Prime by Sarah Hart The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen Check out First Edition on Twitter, on Substack, and on Instagram. And if you have a moment to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, please and thank you! And please do email me with feedback here: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this kick-off episode, Jeff O’Neal plays a game to determine the “it” book of April with Rebecca Schinksy, talks about what it means to put a book into the world with Simon & Schuster Senior Editor Yahdon Israel, and considers humanism with Sarah Bakewell, on the occasion of the publication of her new book, Humanly Possible. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: It Book Knock-Out Contenders Wonder Boy by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane The Wager by David Grann Happy Place by Emily Henry In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung House of Cotton by Monica Brashears Yahdon Israel’s Advance Readers Club Soil by Camille T Dungy Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell First Edition on Instagram First Edition on Twitter First Edition on Substack And please do email me with feedback here: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices