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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American Horror: The Haunting of Hill House Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Oct 21, 2025
Montaigne pt2: A Montaigne out of a mole hill (with Rowan Tomlinson) Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Oct 14, 2025
Montaigne pt1: Climb Every Montaigne (with Stephen Greenblatt) Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Oct 14, 2025
SLoB's Four (literary) weddings and a funeral Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Oct 6, 2025
Wilkie Collins 2: The Moonstone Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Sep 30, 2025
BONUS: Jennifer Egan on the Woman in White Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Sep 25, 2025
Wilkie Collins 1: The Woman in White Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Sep 23, 2025
SLOB Reads: The Sonnet with Paul Muldoon Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Sep 18, 2025
The Secret Life of Trains: how rail travel changed fiction - for ever Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Sep 16, 2025
BONUS: Writing Virginia Woolf's life (with Hermione Lee) Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Sep 12, 2025
Virginia Woolf 5: The Waves Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Sep 9, 2025
Virginia Woolf 4: A Room Of One's Own Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Sep 1, 2025
Virginia Woolf 3: Orlando Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Aug 26, 2025
BONUS: Reading Mrs Dalloway (with Alexandra Schwartz) Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Aug 22, 2025
Virginia Woolf 2: To The Lighthouse Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Aug 19, 2025
BONUS: Virginia Woolf, the not-so-Common Reader (with Alexandra Harris) Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Aug 15, 2025
Virginia Woolf 1: Mrs Dalloway Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Aug 12, 2025
Smells Like Teen Spirit: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Aug 5, 2025
The Secret River with Kate Grenville Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jul 29, 2025
Keeping Up Appearances with the Pooters: The Diary of A Nobody Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jul 22, 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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#47 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

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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.

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Overall chart position, last 90 days · lower is better

Where it charts

Current overall position by country · categories in 🇮🇩 Indonesia as of 2026-09-22

🇮🇩 Indonesia #198 News #165 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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