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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The Secret Life of Summer Holidays: sunburns, family arguments and holiday cottages in classic literature Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jul 15, 2025
BONUS: Move Over Bridgerton: James Boswell's Big Romance Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jul 11, 2025
A Date With Signor Gonorrhea: James Boswell's London Journal 1762 Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jul 8, 2025
Plague, fire and hanky-panky in Swinging 1660s London: Samuel Pepys' Diary Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jul 1, 2025
Breakfast with Jane Austen Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jun 24, 2025
Oscar Wilde 4: Doing rhyme: The Ballad of Reading Gaol Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jun 17, 2025
Life and love with MND: Lisa Genova's Every Note Played with Prof Dominic Rowe Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jun 13, 2025
Oscar Wilde 3: "A Handbag?!" The Importance of Being Earnest Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jun 10, 2025
Happier with Henry Wotton: Gretchen Rubin on Aphorisms and the Importance of Being Oscar Wilde Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jun 6, 2025
Oscar Wilde 2: If Looks Could Kill: The Picture of Dorian Gray Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jun 3, 2025
Classic Books vs Trump: Jill Lepore on reading her way through the first 100 days Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · May 27, 2025
Oscar Wilde 1: The Happy Prince and Other Stories Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · May 20, 2025
BONUS: More 'Rivals': Actor Katherine Parkinson on the joy of Jilly Cooper and playing Lizzie Vereker in the television adaptation Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · May 16, 2025
Bollinger, Board Battles and Bonking Galore: Jilly Cooper's Rivals Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · May 13, 2025
The Epic of Gilgamesh with Robert Macfarlane Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · May 9, 2025
The Tortured Poets Department: Emily Dickinson, the Transcendentalists and, yes, Taylor Swift Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · May 6, 2025
BONUS: Secret Life of Democracy (Literature at the polls) Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · May 2, 2025
Guns and (war of the) Roses. The irresistible rise of Shakespeare's Richard III Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Apr 29, 2025
BONUS: The Disappearance of Agatha Christie Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Apr 25, 2025
Hercule Poirot, a Tunisian dagger and an evening of Mah Jong: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Apr 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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#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

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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
CategoriesNews

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