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10 Things To Tell You

Ep 272: Best Books of the Year (So Far)

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7930 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

My real life book club members Yasmin Dunn and Stephanie Newman-Smith join me to talk about the best books we've read (so far) in 2025!


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We've created special lists of all the books we talk about on amazon and on Bookshop


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Laura's Best Books of the Year (so far):

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib

Show Don't Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld

Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik


Yasmin's Best Books of the Year (so far):

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Entitlement by Rumaan Alaam

It Begins with You: The 9 Hard Truths About Love That Will Change Your Life by Jillian Turecki


Steph's Best Books of the Year (so far):

Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson

Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Rieger


ALSO MENTIONED:

The Chani App

You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance by Chani Nicholas

The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick


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0:00.0

To give Dad the day he deserves look no farther than ASDA.

0:04.4

With rollbacks like Jamison Whiskey 70CL was £25 £85, now £19.98.

0:10.6

Cabra Heroes was £4.48, now £3.74.

0:13.8

And exceptional by Asda Aberdeen-Angus thick-cut 11-ounce rum steak was £6 £6.46.

0:18.8

Now just £6 £1.13.

0:20.8

For a day dedicated to him, that's ASDA price.

0:24.1

Selected stores subject to availability, Office M from June 15th may exclude Asda Express in

0:28.0

small stores.

0:28.5

See asda.com slash small stores.

0:32.1

I will get back to the book though.

0:33.6

Because we have to be piffy, which you haven't told us yet.

0:35.9

Sorry, sorry, you have to be piffy.

0:37.6

We have not been pithy.

0:39.0

We have not been pithy.

0:39.0

We have not been pithy.

0:40.0

Because no one reminded us.

0:41.3

I know.

0:41.8

It's almost like we didn't get the warning at the beginning.

1:13.4

Welcome. Welcome to the 10 Things to Tell You podcast. I'm Laura Tremaine. I always have at least 10 things to tell you. And you have 10 things to tell. This is a show where we believe that sharing yourself will make you less lonely. Twice a year, my real life book club meets at my house to sit in front of my

1:20.2

podcast mics and we share the best books of the year. In June, of course, it is the best books of the

1:27.4

year so far.

1:29.7

This book club consists of my dear friends Stephanie and Yasmin, whose voices are now

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