The 2025 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 2

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca wrap up the 2025 Holiday Recommendations. 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 In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez 2 AM at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helen Bertino The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr The Slough House series by Mick Herron My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Jane Harper Tilt by Emma Pattee A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean The Unveiling by Quan Barry Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Riverman by Ben McGrath The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy Kevin Wilson People Like Us by Jason Mott Marie-Helene Bertino Katie Kitamura Colson Whitehead Tom Robbins Oreo by Fran Ross Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey Something From Nothing by Alison Roman Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly Good Things by Samin Nosrat Six Seasons of Pasta (and/or Six Seasons of Vegetables) by Josh McFadden Now & Again by Julia Turshen The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Lost Man by Jane Harper The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo Like a Mother by Angela Garbes Essential Labor by Angela Garbes Splinters by Leslie Jamison Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Jonathan Evison Model Home by Rivers Solomon Reign & Ruin by J. D. Evans So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport The Imposter Cure by Jessamy Hibberd Life in Three Dimensions by Shigehiro Oishi The Broken Shore by Peter Temple Light Years by James Salter I Married You for Happiness by Lily Tuck Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levitan Ross Gay Hanif Abdurraquib Ada Limon Sarah Kay 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, Chipoplae sauce and amadea cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.3	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Available to the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11am.
0:18.1	Price and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:20.1	Black Friday at Abercrombie is here, with 25 to 50% off everything. And Spotify listeners are getting an extra 15% off with code Spotify AF. It's the sale you've been waiting for. Shop Abercrombie in the app online and in stores. 30% off everything valid in stores and online from November the 24th, 2025 to December the first, 2025 in UK-EU. It excludes clearance and gift cards. Online price reflects discount. Use code Spotify AF to get an additional 15% off everything in stores and online at checkout from November the 24th, 2025 to December the first 2025 in UK-EU. It excludes clearance and gift cards. See details online. This is the Bookerite podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:58.0	And we're here with part two of our 2025 holiday recommendation show where we have asked listeners to write in with a recommendation request. It could be holiday related.
1:13.3	It could just not. It could be for you. Could be for someone else. Any holiday, no holiday,
1:17.5	all of them accepted. But we do know that this time of year, there's a lot more book buying
1:23.0	for other people that happen than other types of year. and we offer humbly our services in that
1:30.8	pursuit this is part two Rebecca um has anything changed since the last episode has been
1:39.0	released I don't believe so okay Patreon zero to, zero to well read, the Book Riot newsletter.
1:47.5	You can find all those things at bookriot.com slash listen.
1:52.9	I guess we'll get right into it.
1:54.4	Which of us should read this first one?
1:55.8	I lost track in the intervening seven minutes since we stopped recording last episode.
1:59.7	It's a long read and you're a better
2:01.0	reader than I am, so please do. This is from Dee who is coming to us with a desperate plea for help.
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