Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear and Winnie-the-Pooh centenary

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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