The 2025 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1
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11/26/25
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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
We the People by Jill Lepore
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