Totally Booked with Zibby
Hi! I'm Zibby Owens, host of Totally Booked! I'm hosting four events on September 19, 25th and 30th in NYC and on October 4th in Greenwich, CT. Get your tickets here!
In my daily show, I interview today’s latest, bestselling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author and (obviously) podcaster, I get a comprehensive look at everything that’s coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don’t have to. Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do. Every single day.
FYI, my show has won many awards! It was one of Oprah's top literary podcasts - twice! - and has been downloaded 15 million+ times. With 2,000+ episodes to choose from, you'll never run out of book talk. For more information, go to zibbymedia.com and follow me on Instagram at @zibbyowens. If you love the show, please rate and review it. And go buy the books!
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 2243
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Paula McLain, WHEN THE STARS GO DARK
Jenny Lawson, BROKEN (IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY)
Julie Metz, EVA AND EVE
Donna Freitas, THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO
"Novels. What's wonderful about them is that you can do the stuff you can't in real life. You can make all the mistakes. You can commit all the crimes." Donna Freitas talks with Zibby about how her o…
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, GOOD COMPANY
"The exciting thing about deciding to do something later in your life is that you have all these skills that you just didn't have in your twenties." Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney tells Zibby all about star…
Dawnie Walton, THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV
Sanjena Sathian, GOLD DIGGERS
"It's just really hard to locate yourself as an Asian American in American history. Even though you might have been here, you were just always floating in the periphery of historical vision." Sanjena…
Judy Batalion, THE LIGHT OF DAYS
"I feel a great duty to these women, even those that told their stories but hadn’t been widely heard and especially those that never got to tell their stories." Judy Batalion talks with Zibby about t…
Jessica Winter, THE FOURTH CHILD
Novelist Jessica Winter talks with Zibby about her incredible career trajectory (she’s currently an executive editor at The New Yorker!) and imparts her quarantine parenting wisdom. She also shares h…
Tamara Winfrey Harris, DEAR BLACK GIRL
Tamara Winfrey Harris joins Zibby to discuss her new book of heartwarming letters from Black women to help guide, protect, and inspire the next generation of young Black girls. The writers of the let…
Sherry Turkle, THE EMPATHY DIARIES
Ilona Bannister, WHEN I RAN AWAY
"I discovered that the writing was helping me process everything that had happened. I didn't know that that's what I needed to do." Debut novelist Ilona Bannister has a heartfelt conversation with Zi…
Patric Richardson, LAUNDRY LOVE: FINDING JOY IN A COMMON CHORE
The Laundry Evangelist, Patric Richardson, teaches Zibby all of his tips and tricks on how to save your clothes and make doing the laundry more fun. From washing everything on a warm express cycle to…
James Brown, APOLOGY TO THE YOUNG ADDICT
Dave Eggers, WE BECAME JAGUARS
Vijay Vad, BACK RX
Arianna Huffington & Marina Khidekel, YOUR TIME TO THRIVE
Founder of the Huffington Post and Thrive Global, Arianna Huffington, and Thrive Global's Head of Content Development, Marina Khidekel, talk with Zibby about their new book, Your Time to Thrive, and …
Chris Whitaker, WE BEGIN AT THE END
"Basically, Zibby, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just winging it and hoping for the best." Author Chris Whitaker talks to Zibby about how writing saved his life twice and how the main character in…
Alan Silberberg, MEET THE MATZAH
"It was a healing, life-changing process of creating art." Alan Silberberg and Zibby talk about his new picture book Meet the Matzah, approaching grief with humor, and the importance of sharing diver…
Tracey Cox, GREAT SEX STARTS AT 50
"The problem is that we think of love and sex as being very happy bedfellows, and they're not. They actually hate each other." Sexpert Tracey Cox talks with Zibby about how reaching a certain age doe…