UPDATED - Our Favorite Books of 2025

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca list their favorite books of the year, and then are joined by a series of Book Riot editors to share their picks: Kelly Jensen, Danika Ellis, Erica Ezefedi, Sharifah Williams, and Vanessa Diaz. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.9	This is the book ride podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. Today, Rebecca, it's time
0:56.7	at last for our favorite books of 2025. I'd kind of put the favorite books of year stuff to bed
1:04.7	because I'm kind of done with year-end lists for books. Like there's still some trickling out like
1:08.3	Vox had one today. But I'm just kind of done,
1:11.5	but we haven't talked about our own list. I don't think anything we're going to mention between
1:16.0	the two of us today will be great surprises to book wrap podcast listeners because we've been
1:19.9	talking about it through frontless way through the whole year. But it's helpful to recap. And as a special
1:26.5	treat, really for us and for the listener, we have talked to a bunch of our full-time editors here, a book write about their favorite books of the year. We've got Sharifah Williams. We've got Kelly Jensen. We've got Danica Ellis, Erica Azafetti. They're all going to join us. We already did the recording, so you hear them stitch together at the
1:44.7	back half of the show. Speaking of other things to listen to, go listen to us, talk about a Christmas
1:50.0	Carol on the Zero to Well, Redfeet. A really fascinating book. If you think you know, you don't know
1:55.8	about what. It changed the world. I did. I did a short form video today of you and I talking, mostly you, speaking
2:01.7	eloquently, passionately, and informally about how this book really changed the world in a way
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