Goodreads Choice Winners, NYT 10 Best, and Spotify Wrapped for Audiobooks

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the Goodreads Choice Winners, the NYT's 10 Best of the Year, NPR's excellent year-end round-up before talking to Katie del Rosario of Spotify about the year in audiobooks and Spotify's Audiobooks Wrapped. 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 Spotify Audiobook Trends for 2025 NYT 100 Notable Books of 2025, which does, in fact, contain its top 10 NYT Top Ten NPR’s “Books We Love” WaPo’s top ten Goodreads Choice Awards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's a reason we re-watch Home Alone every year.
0:03.5	Merry Christmas, you filthy animal.
0:05.6	It's because the best stories stay with you.
0:08.5	And Disney Plus is where you'll find your next great story.
0:12.4	Whether it's Fantastic Four First Steps.
0:14.9	We will protect you.
0:16.1	High-power drama, All's Fair.
0:18.1	Tell us your story.
0:19.0	Or brand new Percy Jackson.
0:22.0	That is just the beginning.
0:28.8	A lifetime of great stories awaits on Disney Plus. Now streaming 18 plus subscription required.
0:38.7	Teas and Cs apply. A world on fire. Nations collapsing, ideologies clashing, and ordinary men and women caught in the storm.
0:42.7	Hi, I'm Ray Harris Jr. of the History of World War II podcast,
0:50.0	and we'll cover the battles that shaped the war, from the deserts of North Africa to the frozen forests of the Ardennes. Because history isn't just names and dates. It's people, choices, and consequences at World War II podcast.net.
1:05.1	This is the Book Cry podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.
1:08.3	I'm Rebecca Shinsky. This is our 250th time talking to each other this week.
1:14.2	What else is there to say? It's late. It's Thursday. The wheels are coming off, but we've had a lot of
1:21.7	book news this week. So here we are. Yeah, I was writing today in books a few minutes ago. And I was just like,
1:26.0	seriously, folks, this is last call for best books of the year.
1:29.1	You get them all in. It is December 4th. This is the last time I'm linking to it. This is the book internet equivalent of buying your gifts on Christmas Eve. We just, this is it. We'll run through a few here today. On the back half of the episode today, you're going to hear Rebecca and I talk to Katie Del Rosario of Spotify, Spotify audiobooks about what they've got cooking, wrapped, other things
1:47.0	going on,
1:47.5	some data points, really interesting conversation, so stick around for that.
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