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 ...

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Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights": is the hype worth it? 53 min · Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee · Feb 17
Wuthering Heights: Is this really the greatest love story of all time? 1 h 10 min · Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Feb 10
Frankenstein in Oxford: A Conversation with Richard Ovenden, OBE 32 min · Richard Ovenden, OBE, Sophie Gee · Feb 6
Toni Morrison 1: The Bluest Eye 1 h 10 min · Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Feb 3
Queens of Crime 4: The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham 1 h 06 min · Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee, Unknown · Jan 27
To See or Not to See? Hamnet tune-up session 50 min · Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee, Unknown · Jan 23
Queens of Crime 3: A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie 1 h 08 min · Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee · Jan 20
Queens of Crime 2: Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh 1 h 06 min · Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee · Jan 13
The Golden Age of Crime with Grantchester's James Runcie 47 min · Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jan 9
Queens of Crime 1: Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jan 6
By George (Eliot) She's Done It! The road to Middlemarch Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Dec 30, 2025
A SLoB Christmas Cracker Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Dec 23, 2025
The Women Who Made Jane Austen 1 h 06 min · Jonty Claypole, Sophie Gee, Oscar Piastri · Dec 16, 2025
Big Cat Theory: William Blake's The Tyger Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Dec 9, 2025
Henry James 3: Turn of the Screw Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Dec 2, 2025
Henry James 2: Colm Tóibín on Henry James Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Nov 25, 2025
Henry James 1: The Portrait of a Lady Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Nov 18, 2025
Greece Lightnin': My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Nov 11, 2025
American Horror 3: Salem's Lot by Stephen King Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Nov 4, 2025
American Horror 2: Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Oct 28, 2025
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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

🇦🇺 #1 · 🇮🇪 #3 · 🇬🇧 #3 · 🇳🇿 #3 · 🇮🇩 #5 · 🇨🇦 #7 · 🇳🇴 #7 · 🇦🇹 #8 · 🇿🇦 #8 · 🇦🇷 #9 · +20 more

charted in 31 countriesFull rankings →

Activity

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6 episodes · last 30 days · avg 62 min

Tue 52Fri 8Mon 4

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
CategoriesNews

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