Books Of The Year Season Peaks
Book Riot - The Podcast
11/24/25
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Jeff and Rebecca inhale a slew of best books of the year lists.
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Book Riot’s Best Books of 2025
Shein partners with Alibris to sell books
Lit Hub’s Book Twitter bracket
Libro.fm's top 10 audiobooks of the year
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What is Magical Realism?
November 19, 2025
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Vanessa Diaz is back to talk with Jeff and Rebecca about what magical realism is, where it comes from, and how to talk about it.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriela Garcia Marquez
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Labyrinths or Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
The Storyteller’s Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
Magical/Realism by Angelica Villareal
The Week of Colors by Elena Garro, Megan McDowell (trans.)
The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeney (trans.)
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The 2025 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1
November 26, 2025
•52m
Jeff and Rebecca are back with another holiday recommendation show. Part 2 coming on Monday.
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Little Pea by Amy Rosenthal
I Love You, Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
Highway 59 series by Attica Locke
Tilt by Emma Pattee
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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