Great Books for Giving: November 25, 2025

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Good Things, Art Heist, Recipes from the American South, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Keep track of new releases with Book Riot's New Release Index, now included with an All Access membership. Click here to get started today! Books Discussed On the Show: A Literary Letter for Every Day of the Year by Liz Ison Bibliophile Advent Calendar for Booklovers by Jane Mount Expensive Basketball by Shea Serrano Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: A Cookbook by Samin Nosrat Puzzle Mania!: Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee, Minis and More! by The New York Times Games The Portable Feminist Reader by Roxane Gay Art Heist: 50 Artworks You Will Never See by Susie Hodge Six Seasons of Pasta: A New Way with Everyone's Favorite Food by Joshua McFadden with Martha Holmberg Around the World in 80 Birds by Mike Unwin, Ryuto Miyake Recipes from the American South by Michael W Twitty How Comics Are Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page by Glenn Fleishman Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence About (Almost) Every Imaginable Subject of Daily Life, with Odes to Desktop Ephemera and Selected Letters of Famous Writers by Rachel Syme The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains by Pria Anand The Year's Best Sports Writing 2025 by Hanif Abdurraqib The New Book: Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things by Nikki Giovanni Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores by Katie Mitchell For a complete list of 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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0:25.9	business.gov.com.ukes. Eligibility criteria apply. You're listening to All the Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
0:47.4	Today, November 25, 2025, we are talking about books that make great gifts.
0:52.8	I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Patricia Elsie Tuttle, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.
0:58.2	Patricia, hello.
0:59.7	Hey, Liberty, how's it going?
1:01.7	Well, you know, we've had some weeks here, you and I.
1:06.2	But we're here.
1:09.5	You're an anonymous unicorn in the Google Doc that we're sharing.
1:13.6	Amazing.
1:14.0	I've never seen before, but I think it's pretty fitting.
1:18.1	The end of the year is coming up.
1:20.1	We're going to talk about gift books.
1:22.9	We get a little bit of a break.
1:25.4	This is your last one of the year.
1:27.2	It is my last one of the year it is my last one of the year yeah so
1:29.8	i get to also um i've already started my just kind of reading whatever i want that's exciting
1:40.0	yeah it is it's kind of it's just a bit a bit of a free for all the end of the year as it comes to my TBR. So it's pretty fun.
1:51.3	Yeah, that's exciting. I'm always excited about reading anything at any time. I had, you know, I set all these goals this year for reading like I want to do all these
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