2025 It Books Scorekeeping and December New Releases

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

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. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life. The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network. Discussed in this episode: Check out Zero to Well-Read! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon 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 For a complete list of It Books discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.7	This is the bookwreck podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And technically,
0:58.6	it's December it books episode, Rebecca, but I have a spoiler for you and the listeners.
1:04.0	Oh, yes. We cannot do that format because there isn't the juice. I'm going to read some books at you and I don't know
1:11.9	what we're going to do what we're going to say about them. But we're going to do December new releases
1:16.2	and then look at our January through November picks to see how we did for a book selections for
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