New Releases and More for December 2025, Plus Our Favorite Books of the Year

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week, Vanessa and Danika discuss some of December's new releases, and Liberty and Vanessa's favorite books of 2025. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat 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: The Curse of the Cole Women by Marielle Thompson There’s Always Next Year by George M. Johnson and Leah Johnson The Jaguars Roar by Micheliny Verunschk, Juliana Barbassa (translator) Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books by Hwang Bo-reum and Shanna Tan Scarlet Morning by N.D. Stevenson The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett Angel Down by Daniel Kraus Old Soul by Susan Barker The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson Queer Enlightenments by Dr. Anthony Delaney All the (More!) Books! December 5, 2025 What We're Reading: Joy to the Girls by Alyson Derrick and Rachael Lippincott Mona's Eyes by Thomas Schlessler History Lessons by Zoe B. Wallbrook Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire by Don Martin 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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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.1	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet,
0:06.3	Chipotle sauce and Amadea cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.0	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments at the 4th of Jan, 226 from 11am.
0:18.1	Price and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:30.9	Thank you. of Jan 2026 from 11 a.m. Plus, and participation may vary. Subjects availability. You're listening to all the books,
0:32.3	a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the weeks,
0:35.5	and in this case, months new releases.
0:38.7	Today, we're talking about books being released in the month of December 2025 and also some of our favorite books of the year
0:43.7	i'm Vanessa de s here with Danica Ellis we're coming to you from bookriott.com hello Danica
0:48.9	hello how are you I'm great we're pretending like we haven't spoken for about 10 minutes here
0:54.0	but really quickly want to get out of the way just because obviously we know people are going to wonder. Liberty, obviously, is not here recording with us today. She's just feeling under the weather. She is okay. We have not put her in the trunk of a car, as I jokingly said, to Danica, which is morbid, but Liberty would probably appreciate.
1:12.1	Yeah, she's just not feeling so great. It didn't feel right to make her record.
1:16.2	Her poor little voice sounds, as Danica and I have discussed a little on the cartoonish side right now.
1:22.0	She desperately wanted to record this episode, but we couldn't, we couldn't subject you to her poor creaky voice.
1:31.7	I feel pretty comfortable telling you that I got a phone call where, when I answered, all I heard was,
1:36.3	hello? And it's like, you should go away. We will take care of talking about books for a couple of
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