Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Books

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 13 Jun 2026

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06/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 280

Frequency: every 11 days

Duration: 01:00:38

Top 5 authors

1. Raghvendra Singh (3 shows)

2. Book Riot (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. NPR (2 shows)

5. Ranged Touch (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Libsyn (11 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Acast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Fresh Air	NPR	Arts	298	Simplecast	59
2	Walking With Dante	Mark Scarbrough	Arts	492	Captivate	73
3	The Book Review	The New York Times	Arts	594	Simplecast	53
4	The Book Club	Goalhanger	Arts	18	Megaphone	63
5	Myths and Legends	Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod	Arts	650	Audioboom	53
6	Fantasy Fangirls	Fantasy Fangirls \| QCODE	Arts	193	Megaphone	63
7	Selected Shorts	Symphony Space	Arts	35	Simplecast	43
8	Off The Shelf with Morgann Book	Bookish Media	Arts	51	Acast	63
9	The New Yorker: Fiction	The New Yorker	Arts	232	PRX	49
10	NPR's Book of the Day	NPR	Arts	1251	Simplecast	63
11	What Should I Read Next?	Anne Bogel	Arts	530	Megaphone	73
12	Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day	Merriam-Webster	Arts	10	ART19	48
13	Hello Crawlers - A Dungeon Crawler Carl Podcast	Grant Davis	Arts	57	Spotify for Podcasters	42
14	Zero to Well-Read	Book Riot	Arts	43	Megaphone	53
15	Storytime for Grownups	Faith Moore	Arts	227	Buzzsprout	58
16	Poetry Unbound	On Being Studios	Arts	221	Simplecast	83
17	Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Stories	Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Pod	Arts	164	Spotify for Podcasters	58
18	The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, Book Summary, Podcast, English	Raghvendra Singh	Arts	4	RSS.com	42
19	Old School with Shilo Brooks	The Free Press	Arts	33	Megaphone	58
20	Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa	Service95	Arts	42	Megaphone	63
21	The Shit No One Tells You About Writing	Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra	Arts	421	RedCircle	53
22	Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast	Chelsea Devantez	Arts	309	Megaphone	48
23	Earsay: The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club	iHeartPodcasts	Arts	13	Omny Studio	58
24	The Currently Reading Podcast	Meredith Monday Schwartz and Kaytee Cobb	Arts	441	Libsyn	73
25	From the Front Porch	The Bookshelf Thomasville	Arts	600	Podbean	58
26	Pagenerd	by the pagenerds	Arts	12	Simplecast	79
27	Shelf Respect	Knox McCoy, Jamie Golden, Erin Moon	Arts	11	Libsyn	53
28	PASSAGES: On Morrison	Namwali Serpell, Random House	Arts	6	Libsyn	59
29	Dragons in the Details: A Crescent City & Maasverse Deep Dive Podcast	Abby and Ronnie \| Huge Book Nerds	Arts	67	Spotify for Podcasters	62
30	Bad On Paper	Becca Freeman & Olivia Muenter	Arts	426	Libsyn	73
31	Literature and History	Doug Metzger	Arts	125	Libsyn	79
32	The Literary Life Podcast	Angelina Stanford Thomas Banks	Arts	331	Libsyn	68
33	The Prancing Pony Podcast	The Prancing Pony Podcast	Arts	417	Megaphone	53
34	The Chris Hedges Report	Chris Hedges	Arts	100	Podbean	58
35	Books, Beach, & Beyond	Elin Hilderbrand, Tim Talks Books, N Magazine	Arts	42	Buzzsprout	79
36	The Book Case	ABC News \| Charlie Gibson, Kate Gibson	Arts	214	Megaphone	63
37	Overdue	Headgum	Arts	819	ART19	53
38	Reading Glasses	Brea Grant and Mallory O'Meara	Arts	475	Simplecast	69
39	Book Riot - The Podcast	Book Riot	Arts	908	Megaphone	48
40	Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People	Fated Mates	Arts	405	Captivate	68
41	Sarah's Bookshelves Live	Sarah Dickinson \| Sarah's Bookshelves	Arts	236	Libsyn	73
42	I'll Read What She's Reading	I'll Read What She's Reading	Arts	163	Spotify for Podcasters	38
43	Book Talk, etc.	Tina @tbretc and Hannah @hanpickedbooks	Arts	257	Buzzsprout	68
44	Friends & Fiction	Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Patti Callahan Henry, Ron Block	Arts	468	Megaphone	43
45	It Was A Book First	It Was A Book First	Arts	1	Captivate	58
46	Classical Stuff You Should Know	A.J. Hanenburg, Graeme Donaldson, and Thomas Magbee	Arts	300	Squarespace	63
47	Fiction Writing Made Easy with Savannah Gilbo \| How to Write a Novel & Writing Advice	Savannah Gilbo	Arts	267	Buzzsprout	62
48	MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast	Harry Potter	Arts	775	Megaphone	42
49	The Same Page Book Club	Barstool Sports	Arts	10	Unknown	43
50	The History of Literature	Jacke Wilson / The Podglomerate	Arts	776	Megaphone	63
51	History of Westeros (Game of Thrones)	History of Westeros	Arts	415	Spotify for Podcasters	28
52	Fantasy FanFellas	Fantasy Fangirls Media Network	Arts	28	Acast	74
53	Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Book Summary, Podcast, English	Raghvendra Singh	Arts	1	RSS.com	42
54	The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told	iHeartPodcasts	Arts	41	Omny Studio	78
55	Poured Over	Barnes & Noble	Arts	712	Libsyn	53
56	Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men	Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes	Arts	566	Blubrry Podcasting	73
57	The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins, Book Summary, Podcast, English	Raghvendra Singh	Arts	1	RSS.com	42
58	Wrapup \| رپاپ	amir soodbakhsh	Arts	39	Acast	69
59	The Newest Olympian	Mike Schubert	Arts	255	Megaphone	69
60	The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast	Bloody FM	Books	552	N/A	N/A
61	The Stacks	Traci Thomas	Arts	504	ART19	69
62	DTFae	DTFae Podcast	Arts	178	Buzzsprout	68
63	All the Books!	Book Riot	Arts	1037	Megaphone	63
64	The Plotpoint	Evergreen Podcasts	Arts	5	Megaphone	53
65	Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry	David Naimon, Milkweed Editions	Arts	326	Blubrry	28
66	Kingslingers \| A Dark Tower Podcast	Doof! Media	Arts	268	Libsyn	42
67	Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books	Zibby Owens	Arts	2000	Acast	79
68	Close Reads Podcast	Goldberry Studios	Arts	502	Substack	49
69	LPN Deep Dives: Crescent City	The Last Podcast Network	Arts	127	Simplecast	68
70	CEREBRO	Connor Goldsmith	Arts	151	RedCircle	53
71	Gay Erotica by Liam Williams	Liam Williams	Arts	77	Captivate	58
72	Ascend - The Great Books Podcast	Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan	Arts	136	Captivate	42
73	Close Readings	London Review of Books	Arts	212	Acast	79
74	Ryers Readers	Ashley	Arts	308	Spotify for Podcasters	33
75	Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club	iHeartPodcasts and Hello Sunshine	Arts	53	Omny Studio	83
76	The New Yorker: Poetry	The New Yorker	Arts	126	PRX	49
77	Backlisted	Backlisted	Arts	268	Megaphone	59
78	Fictional	Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser \| Nextpod	Arts	58	Libsyn	63
79	文化有限	文化有限	Arts	345	Unknown	43
80	Kris and Mads	Kristen and Maddie	Arts	93	Spotify for Podcasters	63
81	Literally Reading	Literally Reading	Arts	101	Libsyn	53
82	Gom Jabbar: A Dune Podcast	Lore Party Media	Arts	294	Megaphone	48
83	Booknotes+	C-SPAN	Arts	279	Megaphone	59
84	Writers on Writing	Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone	Arts	100	Squarespace	53
85	Strange Bedfellows	Jack Shepherd and Tanner Greenring	Arts	450	Megaphone	43
86	Just King Things	Ranged Touch	Arts	76	Blubrry	43
87	Classic Audiobooks Collection	Graham Whitmore	Arts	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
88	The Wheel Weaves Podcast: A Wheel of Time Podcast	Dani and Brett	Arts	504	Spreaker	53
89	Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club	Plosive	Arts	125	Acast	79
90	Jane Austen Bedtime Stories	Jane Austen Bedtime Pod	Arts	224	Spotify for Podcasters	48
91	Secret Life of Books	Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole	Arts	164	Buzzsprout	79
92	Flights of Fantasy	Flights Of Fantasy	Arts	167	Spotify for Podcasters	73
93	Lord of the Rings Lorecast - J.R.R. Tolkien's World & Writings Explained	Robots Radio	Arts	216	RedCircle	63
94	Shelved By Genre	Ranged Touch	Arts	80	Blubrry	43
95	Mythgard's Exploring The Lord of the Rings	Mythgard Institute	Arts	377	Fireside	53
96	پادکست جعبه // Jabe Persian Podcast (Mansour Zabetian)	Jabe podcast	Arts	47	RedCircle	32
97	Book Talk for BookTok	Cloud10	Arts	413	Megaphone	84
98	Well-Read	Ann Cox and Halle Eisenman	Arts	100	Podbean	48
99	The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers	Joanna Penn	Arts	304	Blubrry	38
100	Get Lit	Matt Taibbi & Brad Pearce	Arts	2	Substack	49

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