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Romance Book Podcasts

A list of 169 active romance book podcasts for your listening pleasure.

Lady Jane

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Romance Book Podcasts

I've pulled together together a list of currently active romance book podcasts—active meaning they've released an episode in the last 6 months.

Currently, there are 169 on the list! If you know of a podcast that should be added to the list, let me know.

If the list below isn't displaying properly, go directly to the Romance Book Podcasts list I made with Pocket Casts. (NOTE: this Pocket Cast link changes every time I update the list, so please don't bookmark it).

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Note: Podcasts must feature a substantial amount of romance book content to be included on the list, but don't have to be only romance-focused. Podcasts of audio readings of romance books are not included.

Romance Book Podcast Stats

Based on my own calculations and data from Listen Notes, I've put together some stats and lists about the podcasts.

Note: These lists have been compiled based on research and should not be considered my own personal recommendations or endorsements.

Longest Running Podcasts

Calculated as of November 28, 2024, based on start date from Listen Notes.

Thank you to these pioneers who have been in the romance book podcast game the longest and are still going! Shout out to Smart Podcast, Trashy Book for almost 16 years!!

  1. Smart Podcast, Trashy Books - 15.92 years
  2. Big Gay Fiction Podcast - 9.08 years
  3. Too Stupid to Live: Romance Reviews $5 and Under - 8.33 years
  4. Not Your Mom's Romance Book Club - 7.36 years
  5. Heaving Bosoms - 7.12 years
  6. What to Read Next Podcast - 6.95 years
  7. When In Romance - 6.86 years
  8. Whoa!mance: Romance, Feminism, and Ourselves - 6.79 years
  9. FMKlit Pod - 6.79 years
  10. Hot and Bothered - 6.76 years
  11. Bad On Paper - 6.68 years
  12. Shhh We’re Reading Dirty Books - 6.22 years
  13. Bodice Tipplers - 6.12 years
  14. Textual Tension - 6.11 years
  15. Fated Mates - 6.10 years
  16. Learning The Tropes - 6.10 years
  17. Chick and Dicks - 6.08 years
  18. The Phoenix Nest: Romance Review - 5.72 years

Newest Podcasts

Calculated as of November 28, 2024, based on start date from Listen Notes.

These are the newest romance book podcasts – they’re all less than 6 months old. Welcome to the romance book podcast community!

  1. Wednesdays, We're Booked - 1 month
  2. High Ladies of the Smut Court - 1.4 months
  3. My Perfect Romance - 2.3 months
  4. Slow Burn Society - 2.3 months
  5. Romance on the Rocks - 2.4 months
  6. The Smut Daddy Podcast - 2.6 months
  7. The Blushing Bookworm - 2.6 months
  8. Just One More Chapter - 3 months
  9. Second Hand Smut - 3.3 months
  10. Romance and Ruin - 3.3 months
  11. Some Like It Spicy - 3.8 months
  12. The Smut Peddlers - 3.9 months
  13. Black Romance Has A History - 5 months
  14. The Christian Romance Podcast - 5 months
  15. Science of Smut - 5.1 months
  16. Daggers and Shadow Daddies - 5.8 months
  17. Unfiltered Romance Nights - 5.8 months
  18. Hopeless Romantics - 5.9 months

Based on Listen Score from Listen Notes, November 28, 2024.

Listen Score (LS) is a metric created by Listen Notes that shows the estimated popularity of a podcast compared to all other rss-based public podcasts in the world on a scale from 0 to 100. The higher, the more popular. It’s like Nielsen ratings for podcasts.

Here are the most popular romance book podcasts based on Listen Score:

  1. Bad On Paper - LS 64
  2. Fantasy Fangirls - LS 63
  3. Heaving Bosoms - LS 57
  4. Hot and Bothered - LS 56
  5. Fated Mates - LS 55
  6. Book Talk for BookTok - LS 52
  7. Smart Podcast, Trashy Books - LS 51
  8. Learning The Tropes - LS 50
  9. Flights of Fantasy - LS 46 (3-way tie)
  10. Tie for #9: Not Your Mom's Romance Book Club - LS 46 (3-way tie)
  11. Tie for #9: Pod and Prejudice - LS 46 (3-way tie)
  12. Books N’ Betches - LS 44 (4-way tie)
  13. Tie for #12: Clutch My Pearls - LS 44 (4-way tie)
  14. Tie for #12: those F%#KING fangirls - LS 44 (4-way tie)
  15. Tie for #12: When In Romance - LS 44 (4-way tie)
  16. Whoa!mance: Romance, Feminism, and Ourselves - LS 43 (2-way tie)
  17. Tie for #16: Big Gay Fiction Podcast - LS 43 (2-way tie)
  18. BookTok Made Me Podcast - LS 42

Most Episodes

Based on data from Listen Notes, November 28, 2024.

If you’re looking for more romance book content, here are the active podcasts with the most episodes to choose from! Smart Podcast, Trashy Book, which has been running for almost 16 years, has 1,571 episodes—that’s more than double the episodes of the second-place podcast!!

  1. Smart Podcast, Trashy Books - 1,571 episodes
  2. What to Read Next Podcast - 769 episodes
  3. Buzzing about Romance - 623 episodes
  4. Plot Trysts - 550 episodes
  5. Big Gay Fiction Podcast - 493 episodes
  6. Heaving Bosoms - 399 episodes
  7. Bad On Paper - 348 episodes (2-way tie)
  8. Tie for #7: Whoa!mance: Romance, Feminism, and Ourselves - 348 episodes (2-way tie)
  9. Fated Mates - 326 episodes
  10. Not Your Mom's Romance Book Club - 308 episodes
  11. The Categorically Romance Podcast - 305 episodes
  12. Learning The Tropes - 281 episodes
  13. Hot and Bothered - 236 episodes
  14. Book Talk for BookTok - 222 episodes
  15. Romance at a Glance - 212 episodes
  16. Trash or Treasure? Find your next (most likely romantic) read! - 206 episodes
  17. LiteraryScape - 199 episodes
  18. Shhh We’re Reading Dirty Books - 184 episodes

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