The Books We Still Want to Read in 2025

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca talk about the books they still want to get to before 2026 gets here. 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 Flesh by David Szalay Maggie by Katie Yee Kaplan's Plot by Jason Diamond Who is Government? by Michael Lewis Some Bright Nowhere by Ann Packer The Uncool by Cameron Crowe Joyride by Susan Orlean A Truce That is Not Peace by Miriam Toews Trying by Chloe Caldwell Next of Kin by Gabrielle Hamilton Girl Warrior by Joy Harjo The Season by Helen Garner Does This Make Me Funny? by Zosia Mamet Palaver by Bryan Washington The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones Black-Owned by Char Adams This is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee Every Screen on the Planet by Emily Baker-White Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad Heart the Lover by Lily King The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie Squirrel by Nancy Castaldo Isola by Allegra Goodman We The People by Jill Lepore The History of Money by David McWilliams Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane The Emergency by George Packer What We Can Know by Ian McEwan El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree The Librarians by Sherry Thomas The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett The Persian by David McCloskey Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid 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	Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:04.2	Not much to it, is there?
0:06.2	Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:10.9	Mmm, that is good.
0:12.9	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:15.8	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:19.2	Delicious.
0:23.8	This is the Bookwry podcast.
0:25.2	I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:26.2	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:27.5	And today on the show, there's some 2025 left, Rebecca.
0:31.7	It's not over, even though it accelerates.
0:34.6	It's kind of like, you know, when you put the penny in that big swirly thing at like a zoo or an art museum, the closer and closer to the hand, it just goes like this.
0:41.4	We're not quite here, but we're definitely mid-the-top is spinning.
0:45.2	Mid-cyclone at this point. And there's still time for us to get some 2025 titles in under our
0:51.5	belts because really this week and next week are the end of the major new
0:55.7	releases. Even November 11th, I was doing new releases for the flagship newsletter. And I
1:00.6	I didn't struggle. I didn't struggle to leave things off. Let's put it that way at this point.
1:07.3	But with six weeks left, we want to talk about the books we still would like to get
1:11.2	to. This is not a promise. This is not a blood oath. This is just what we still have on a list
1:17.7	that we haven't got to as we get to, you know, six weeks of not new release training. We're
1:23.2	getting a lot of the best books of the year list. That may be affecting. It certainly expected
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