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🗓️ 18 November 2025

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This week, Liberty and Emily discuss The Cuffing Game, Beasts of the Sea, I, Medusa, 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. We’ve got the chops to match the book lover in your life with their next favorite read. And it only takes a few clicks to gift Tailored Book Recommendations! Simply head to mytbr.co/gift to get started. Books Discussed On the Show: The Cuffing Game by Lyla Lee Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen, David Hackston (translator) The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten, Alison McCullough (translator) I, Medusa by Ayana Gray Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century by W. David Marx And Then There Was You by Sophie Cousens The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo I’ll Make A Spectacle of You by Beatrice Winifred Iker Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends by Kylie Lee Baker Hungerstone by Kat Dunn Who Counted the Corpses: Vlad Dracula and History by James M. Donovan The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy, #1) by Antonia Hodgson 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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0:00.0	While all the whos of Whoville were at McDonald's eating, the Grinch from his lair started plotting and scheming.
0:05.7	Gherkin flavored fries and odd socks will send them crackers.
0:09.4	So try the Grinch's new meal and head down to Macers.
0:15.4	Until 4th of Jan from 11 a.m., price and participation may vary while stocks last grinched for adults.
0:36.7	You're listening to All the Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. Today we are talking about
0:38.6	books being released on November 18th, 2025, and more. I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Emily Martin,
0:44.9	and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Emily, hello. Hello. Happy November. Yes, it's November.
0:54.9	It's like past the middle of November already. It. It's like past the middle of November already.
0:58.3	I know, that really freaks me out.
1:00.8	That kind of threw me for a loop.
1:03.0	I'm not going to lie, it just really snuck up on me.
1:06.1	Yeah.
1:07.3	Well, it's, as a reader, like my favorite time of year because lots of awards and I look at like my
1:18.1	reading goals which like I didn't meet any of them this year you know everything went horribly
1:21.7	wrong everywhere but I mean I still read a lot of books but like I didn't do the retarder challenge
1:27.4	I don't think I'm going to make it and like all these other ones I want to do but I still read a lot of books, but like I didn't do the retarder challenge. I don't think I'm
1:27.8	going to make it and like all these other ones I want to do. But I still am like, oh, how many more books can I read before the end of the year? And I get my new book journals and I start, you know, getting them ready, which involves, you know, buying new pens and lots of stickers. You know, got to get them ready.
1:45.2	And then I start getting excited about like, what is the first book I'm going to read next year?
1:50.6	Yeah.
1:51.0	I was going to say, I feel like the best, most exciting, most motivating time of the year to read is like at the very end of the year and the very beginning of the year
2:02.6	because I like I now look back at you know just like count wise like how many books have I read
2:09.2	and it's always like January and like November December that's when the I feel like I always read so many more books than like all the other months.
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