The Books We Still Want to Read in 2025
Book Riot - The Podcast
11/12/25
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about the books they still want to get to before 2026 gets here.
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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
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