2025 It Books Scorekeeping and December New Releases
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12/03/25
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Jeff and Rebecca look back on their It Books selections from 2025 to see what they got right and wrong. But first, take a look at a pretty uninspiring slate of December new releases.
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December Releases:
- House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
- Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear by Gyles Brandreth
- A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls by Adam Morgan
- A Long Game by Elizabeth McCracken
- The Tower and the Ruin by Michael Drout
- Every Day I Read by Hwang Bo-Reum
- Feast on Your Life by Tamar Adler
- An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole
- The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits
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Goodreads Choice Winners, NYT 10 Best, and Spotify Wrapped for Audiobooks
December 8, 2025
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about the Goodreads Choice Winners, the NYT's 10 Best of the Year, NPR's excellent year-end round-up before talking to Katie del Rosario of Spotify about the year in audiobooks and Spotify's Audiobooks Wrapped.
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