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All the Books!

2025 Canon Contenders from Zero to Well-Read

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

All the Books! is on a holiday break, so we're sharing this recent Zero to Well-Read episode in which Jeff and Rebecca discuss the award-winning books, pop culture phenomena, book club picks, and crossover hits of 2025 and attempt to identify the ones that might someday join the canon. Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to help you get the most out of your reading life. Email us: zerotowellread@bookriot.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Steve Cubine and Nan McNamara's podcast from Beneath the Hollywood Sign.

0:04.4

I pulls out a box and gives McAllister a ring saying, here's something to remember me by.

0:09.8

Daryl Zannick hit the roof.

0:12.4

Mary Astor has been keeping a diary.

0:15.0

This torrid affair with George S. Kaufman is chronicled on a daily basis.

0:19.6

Talking about the actors and actresses who won an Oscar on their very first film.

0:24.8

Get your fix of old Hollywood on the podcast from, Vanessa the Yes, back again to let you know that we are still on our winter break here at all the books and all the more books, as well as across most of our book riot podcasts.

0:52.6

But as promised, we have other things for you to

0:54.9

listen to while we're taking this little break. Today's episode is another one from our zero to well-read

1:00.5

podcast, Book Riot's newest podcast that's hosted by Jeff and Rebecca that just concluded its first

1:05.6

season. This one is a little bit of a break from the regular format because right now you probably

1:10.3

know that that show is sort of a hybrid of a book club,

1:13.5

an English class approach where Jeff and Rebecca discuss all the kinds of books that people

1:17.9

talk about from, you know, classics that you probably read in high school,

1:21.3

maybe college to modern hits and buzzy titles that folks read and talk about now.

1:25.7

But this one is actually a discussion of the 2025 canon contenders,

1:30.6

where Jeff and Rebecca take a peek or a look, I should say, at the award-winning books,

1:35.3

pop culture phenomenon, book club picks, and crossover hits of 2025,

1:39.3

and then try to identify which ones of those might someday join the canon.

1:43.7

So we hope you enjoy this episode of

1:45.3

Zero to Well Read. If you do enjoy the podcast, make sure you subscribe to that wherever you get your

1:49.7

podcasts. We'll catch you on Friday for one more sort of special feed drop episode of All the

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