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Book Riot - The Podcast
11/14/25
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The Books We Still Want to Read in 2025
November 12, 2025
•38m
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the books they still want to get to before 2026 gets here.
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Discussed in this Episode:
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Flesh by David Szalay
Maggie by Katie Yee
Kaplan's Plot by Jason Diamond
Who is Government? by Michael Lewis
Some Bright Nowhere by Ann Packer
The Uncool by Cameron Crowe
Joyride by Susan Orlean
A Truce That is Not Peace by Miriam Toews
Trying by Chloe Caldwell
Next of Kin by Gabrielle Hamilton
Girl Warrior by Joy Harjo
The Season by Helen Garner
Does This Make Me Funny? by Zosia Mamet
Palaver by Bryan Washington
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Black-Owned by Char Adams
This is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee
Every Screen on the Planet by Emily Baker-White
Next Episode
On Putting Together a Best Books of the Year List
November 17, 2025
•57m
Vanessa Diaz sits in for Rebecca this week and talks to Jeff about the challenges of making a best books of the year list before getting into the news of the week.
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Discussed in this episode:
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Amazon’s best books of the year
David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh
B&N’s best book of the Year is Mona’s Eyes
The 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
I’m bookmarking this deep dive into the fashion industry’s recurrent interest in literature for knife-and-fork reading this weekend
Reader’s Digest asked three professional designers to pick the best book covers of the year
Somebody is Walking On Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez
Stolen Crown by Tracy Borman
Devouring Time by Tod Goddard
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Flashlight by Susan Choi
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