Ranking Amazon's Best Books of the Century

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🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca power rank the top 10 of Amazon's 25 Book of the Year picks from the last 25 years. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening. 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. 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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1:02.0	Hey there, listeners. Today we're sharing something from the archives. Back in the fall over on our
1:08.1	Patreon, just before the flood of all the best books of the year lists hit,
1:12.3	we decided to pull Amazon's number one book of the year picks from the last 25 years, the century so far.
1:18.3	And we ranked the top 10. We each came in with our lists. We hadn't talked to each other in advance.
1:23.0	There were some modern classics. There were some forgotten flashes in the pan, and there were some truly
1:28.2	out of left field selections. Some of them haven't aged a day, and some were actually pretty
1:33.2	wild to look at in hindsight. Today we're sharing that full Patreon episode here in the main
1:38.2	feed. And if you like this kind of deep dive, low stakes, but high opinion, literary chaos,
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