Secret Life of Books

podcast

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 ...

#37 US · Overall 153 recordings 49 h 2024 → today Weekly updated yesterday
Search in Secret Life of Books →

All episodes

141–153 of 153
Wolf Hall: is this the best historical novel ever written? Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Sep 17, 2024
Dracula: vampires even weirder than you think. And they may have started WWI Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Sep 8, 2024
Frankenstein: the ultimate monster; the first A.I story; Mary Shelly's multi-generational grief Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Sep 2, 2024
Wuthering Heights: passionate love affairs and dysfunctional families go together Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Aug 26, 2024
Wide Sargasso Sea 2: bohemianism, madess and celebrity back in England Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jul 5, 2024
Wide Sargasso Sea 1: tropical gothic in the West Indies and Jane Eyre disrupted Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jul 5, 2024
Jane Eyre 2: the Brontes' real lives are even wilder than their fiction Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jul 2, 2024
Jane Eyre 1: passion, madness, gaslighting and bad hair days Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jul 2, 2024
Gulliver's Travels Part 2 Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jun 4, 2024
Gulliver's Travels Part 1 Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · Jun 4, 2024
Macbeth: terrorism, gunpowder and treason in James I's London Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · May 28, 2024
Alice in Wonderland: rabbit-holes, mad mathematics and the elephant in the room Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · May 21, 2024
Secret Life of Books Trailer Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole · May 21, 2024
page 8 of 8 «« ← Prev

Hosts

module · podcast
Sophie Gee 26 Jonty Claypole 21

Named across every episode — search speaker:"Sophie Gee" anywhere.

Charts

module · podcast

#37 Overall · United States

🇦🇺 #1 · 🇮🇪 #3 · 🇳🇿 #3 · 🇬🇧 #3 · 🇮🇩 #5 · 🇨🇦 #7 · 🇳🇴 #7 · 🇿🇦 #8 · 🇦🇷 #9 · 🇧🇪 #13 · +20 more

charted in 31 countriesFull rankings →

Activity

module · podcast

7 episodes · last 30 days · avg 63 min

Tue 52Fri 8Mon 4

Episodes per week over the last six months.

About

module · podcast

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...

Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole secretlifeofbooks.org RSS Apple

Rankings

module · podcast

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 2026-09-20

🇮🇩 Indonesia #198 News #150 Apple
Chart records
First charted2025-10-27
Best ever#10 on Apple Podcasts (Australia) · 2026-01-20
Days on chart67
Countries now1
CategoriesNews

Reach & outreach

Audience estimates, contact details and pitch lists for this show and its hosts — Pro.

See plans