The 2025 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 2
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12/01/25
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Jeff and Rebecca wrap up the 2025 Holiday Recommendations.
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In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
2 AM at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helen Bertino
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr
The Slough House series by Mick Herron
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Jane Harper
Tilt by Emma Pattee
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
The Unveiling by Quan Barry
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Riverman by Ben McGrath
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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
We the People by Jill Lepore
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2025 It Books Scorekeeping and December New Releases
December 3, 2025
•55m
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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