The 2025 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News Commentary, News, Books, Tv & Film

4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jeff and Rebecca are back with another holiday recommendation show. Part 2 coming on Monday. 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 Little Blue Truck Little Pea by Amy Rosenthal I Love You, Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Real Americans by Rachel Khong A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst The Lost Man by Jane Harper Highway 59 series by Attica Locke Tilt by Emma Pattee The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl Katabasis by R. F. Kuang The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin The Wright Brothers by David McCullough The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee We the People by Jill Lepore Bad Blood by John Carreyrou It’s Only Drowning by David Litt The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt The Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood Blob by Maggie Su The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff Matrix by Lauren Groff The Princess in Black by Shannon Hale Survivor’s Guilt by Robyn Gigl Jinx Ballou series by Dharma Kelleher How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe by Charles Yu Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson Audition by Katie Kitamura A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar Palaver by Bryan Washington Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Winter by Ali Smith 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	How's the business going?
0:01.2	We're busier than ever, but struggling to get the staff we need. Ah, recruiting can be such a distraction. We gave Job Centre Plus a try, and they've really helped us out. Really? Yeah. It was dead easy. We got our own employer advisor, Julie, who helped advertise our jobs, shortlisted candidates for us and letters interview at the Job Centre. We've hired some great people, and Job Centre Plus really took the hassle out of it, And there was no fee.
0:23.1	Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. view at the job center. We've hired some great people and Job Center Plus really took the hassle
0:21.2	out of it and there was no fee. Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. Find out more at
0:25.9	business.gov.com.uk slash recruit. Eligibility criteria apply. What's something you learned in
0:31.5	history class that you feel like wasn't the whole truth? Better yet, what's something you didn't learn
0:37.3	at all that was omitted completely?
0:39.8	That's what I like to call redacted history.
0:42.7	My name is Andre White, the host of the Redacted History Podcast,
0:46.9	the place where histories forgotten events, heroes, and villains get their story told,
0:52.0	one episode at a time.
0:54.0	The Redacted History Podcast, real history never dies.
0:58.9	Stream the Redacted History Podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcast.
1:08.8	This is the BookWrite Podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.
1:11.3	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
1:13.0	It's time, Rebecca.
1:14.3	This is our only hallowed tradition, isn't it? I mean, we do preview drafts and it books,
1:20.0	but this goes back to the beginning and speaks to the core of what we look through.
1:23.5	We do moms, dads, and grads in the spring, but these holiday recommendations, I think you're right.
1:28.9	This is the thing that we have been doing since the very beginning of the Book Riot podcast.
1:33.3	And it's fun.
1:34.3	I look forward to this every year.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 9 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Riot New Media Group, Inc, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Riot New Media Group, Inc and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.