2025 in Books: Our Favorite Books, Reading Reflections, and More

In our final episode of 2025, we talk about what our reading lives were like this year, and discuss our stand-out reads through superlatives. Listen in to hear the best page-turners, best characters, and most unexpected reads we encountered this year, to name a few!

Books Mentioned

The Margot Affair by Sanae Lemoine

Diary of a Void by Emi Yogi

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

Friends of the Museum by Heather McGowan

Butter by Asako Yuzuki

The Oppermans Lion Feuchtwanger

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

Universality by Natasha Brown

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Audition by Katie Kitamura

Heart the Lover by Lily King

Water Moon by Samantha Soto Yambao

The Old Man by the Sea by Domenico Starnone

Emma by Jane Austen

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

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