Secret Life of Books

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Every book has two stories: the one it tells, and the one it hides.The Secret Life of Books is a fascinating, addictive, often shocking, occasionally hilarious ...

#44 US · Overall 153 recordings 49 h 2024 → today Weekly updated 3 days ago

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Secret Life of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 31 min · Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee · 3 days ago

Secret Life of the British Museum 1 h 00 min · Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee · 6 days ago

Secret Life of Reading (with Maggie O'Farrell and Ben Alderson-Day) 54 min · Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · 12 days ago

Secret Life of Edinburgh 59 min · Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee · 20 days ago

Secret Life of Trains 2 (Choo choo!) 37 min · Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · 20 days ago

Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde 1 h 24 min · Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee · 27 days ago

Charlotte Higgins on Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War 51 min · Jonty Claypole · Aug 21

James Joyce 3: Ulysses 1 h 09 min · Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Aug 18

Greek Lessons by Han Kang 1 h 06 min · Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Aug 11

James Joyce 2: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 58 min · Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee, Alexandra (Alex) Schwartz · Aug 4

Emily Wilson, the Odyssey and Why Epics Matter 36 min · Emily Wilson, Pasquale Toscano, Sophie Gee · Aug 3

A Podcast of One's Own x SLOB: Special Collaboration 56 min · Julia Gillard, Sophie Gee · Jul 29

James Joyce 1: Dubliners 1 h 22 min · Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee, Jack Wilson · Jul 28

The Odyssey 4: Christopher Nolan's Odyssey review 1 h 01 min · Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee, Alan Sisto · Jul 21

The Odyssey 3: Tennyson's Ulysses 1 h 23 min · Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole, Alan Sisto · Jul 14

The Odyssey 2: How the Odyssey conquered the world Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee, Alan Sisto · Jul 7

The Odyssey 1: Mary Beard on Homer’s masterpiece Mary Beard, Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jul 6

The Declaration of Independence at 250 1 h 17 min · Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jun 30

TS Eliot 2: The Waste Land 1 h 21 min · Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee, Brianne Nadeau · Jun 23

TS Eliot 1: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1 h 12 min · Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole, Bruno Satin · Jun 16

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Hosts

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Sophie Gee 26 Jonty Claypole 21

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Charts

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#44 Overall · United States

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Activity

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6 episodes · last 30 days · avg 62 min

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Episodes per week over the last six months.

About

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Every book has two stories: the one it tells, and the one it hides.The Secret Life of Books is a fascinating, addictive, often shocking, occasionally hilarious weekly podcast starring Sophie Gee, an English professor at Princeton University, and Jonty Claypole, formerly director of arts at the BBC. Every week these virtuoso critics and close friends take an iconic book and reveal the hidden s...

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Rankings

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As of 2026-09-03, Secret Life of Books ranks #198 on Apple Podcasts in Indonesia, and appears on charts in 1 country.

Ranking over time

Overall chart position, last 90 days · lower is better

Where it charts

Current overall position by country · categories in 🇮🇩 Indonesia as of 2026-09-21

🇮🇩 Indonesia #198 News #156 Apple

Chart records

First charted2025-10-27

Best ever#10 on Apple Podcasts (Australia) · 2026-01-20

Days on chart67

Countries now1

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