You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author and book devourer, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode, we're recommending books that we think are underrated.

The underdugs of the literary world. The underrated books of 2025. Plus, we talk recommending books that we think are underrated. The underdogs of the literary world.

The underrated books of 2025.

Plus, we talk about what to do if you don't like an audiobook narrator.

And we recommend reluctant love stories.

But first, Brea, what are you reading?

I am reading the next book for our other podcast.

Reading Smuts. I am reading Sweetberries, which is the next book for our other podcast. Reading Smuts.

I am reading sweetberries, which is the next book in the Cambridge Creek series.

So we did this as a, we covered the first Cambrick Creek book, Morning Glory Milking Farm

as a live event for this show a few years ago.

Yes.

And now we're returning to the cozy world of Cambrick Creek.

Yes.

And people were sort of obsessed with the fact that we did a Minotar smutty erotica book.

So we thought, why not go ahead and do...

Why not return?

Why not return to the world of Camer Creek?

By the way, these are by Ciam Nacosta, and go and read the second book, which is not about a Minotaur, okay? It's about a moth man, baby. He's covered in dust and fluff. He only comes out at night. I just started it last night. It is everything I want from this world. It's a very cute, cozy world. And I'm in love with this moth man. Oh, okay. I haven't seen him yet. He's just been hiding in a tree so far. So I guess we will see what happens. We will be joined in a couple of weeks. This is going to be a bonus episode for reading Smut. We'll be joined by Becky Feldman from Too Stupid to Live. She reviews romance novels under $5. And we're going to talk

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