Zero to Well-Read's 2025 Canon Contenders
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Riot New Media Group, Inc
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A world on fire, nations collapsing, ideologies clashing, and ordinary men and women caught in the storm. |
| 0:09.3 | Hi, I'm Ray Harris Jr. of the History of World War II podcast, and we'll cover the battles that shaped the war, from the deserts of North Africa to the frozen forests of the Ardennes. |
| 0:19.9 | Because history isn't just names and dates. |
| 0:23.5 | It's people, choices, and consequences at World War II podcast.net. |
| 0:35.1 | Hey, everybody, no new episode of the BookWrab podcast this week. |
| 0:38.8 | We're taking the week off between the holidays here. |
| 0:41.7 | We'll be back next week with the It Books of January, 2026. |
| 0:46.3 | And in the Patreon, we will, of course, be doing the winter preview draft. |
| 0:50.4 | In the meantime, if you're looking for something to listen to, |
| 0:52.5 | and you haven't yet listened to our episode over on Zero to Well Red, we did called The Canon Contenders of |
| 0:58.6 | 2025, I think you'll like it. It's very bookwry, podcast friendly. We look back at the year |
| 1:04.0 | and the books that came out in 2025, we think that may actually have a chance of making the |
| 1:08.6 | canon someday and had a really good time talking about it. |
| 1:12.4 | Thank you all so much for listening. |
| 1:14.2 | Have a happy new year. |
| 1:18.9 | Welcome to Zero to Well Read, a podcast about everything you need to know about the books |
| 1:23.3 | you wish you read. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm Jeff O'Neill. |
| 1:25.2 | And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. |
| 1:26.4 | Today, as we wrap up 2025, |
| 1:28.6 | we are taking a look at the books published this year that just might find a place in the canon, |
| 1:33.2 | the kinds of things that we might be talking about on future seasons of zero to well read. |
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