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Book Riot

News in the world of books and reading, including hot industry releases, adaptations, publishing industry events, and more with Book Riot’s Jeff O’Neal and Rebecca Schinsky.
Book Riot is the largest independent editorial book site in North America and home to a host of media, from podcasts to newsletters to original content, all designed around diverse readers and across all genres.

Book Riot - The Podcast

Jeff and Rebecca talk about how the story of the year in books was that there really wasn't a story. Except the big one. AI. Plus, NBCC longlists, getting boomers off slop, recent reading, and more.

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NBCC fiction longlist

PW names the top 10 bookselling stories of the year

The Wedding Date is getting a Netflix adaptation

The Book Gossip of 2025
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AI Was The Story of the Year

This is a bonus preview of our ⁠⁠⁠Patreon-only⁠⁠⁠ episode in which Jeff and Rebecca talked about the books they wanted to read but didn't, they want to read and might still, they definitely are OK not reading, and other subtleties of which books went unread in 2025.

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The Books We Missed in 2025 [Teaser]

This is a bonus preview of our ⁠⁠Patreon-only⁠⁠ episode in which Jeff and Rebecca talk about their favorite non-book things of 2025.

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The Best of the Rest of 2025 [Teaser]

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.

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UPDATED - Our Favorite Books of 2025

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.

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Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life.

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Our Favorite Books of 2025

Jeff and Rebecca talk about Book Riot's 2025 Read Harder Challenge, PW's 2025 Salary & Job Survey, a new Gen Z book club, and resurrect the spirit of Annotated for a very cool story about the women who invented the audiobook.

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The 2026 Read Harder Challenge

2025 PW Salary & Jobs Report

Let’s check in on The Odyssey

Hello Sunshine launches Gen-Z book club

Check your sources before you ask a librarian or bookseller for a title AI recommended to you
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The 2025 Read Harder Challenge, How Publishing People Feel about Publishing, and more

Rebecca sits down with Vanessa Diaz to discuss the adaptation of Hamnet, in wide theatrical release this week. They talk about the film as a standalone piece of art, how it works as an adaptation, the key differences between the book and the movie, and how to tell if it's for you.

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Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream
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So, How's the Hamnet Adaptation?

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the Goodreads Choice Winners, the NYT's 10 Best of the Year, NPR's excellent year-end round-up before talking to Katie del Rosario of Spotify about the year in audiobooks and Spotify's Audiobooks Wrapped.

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Spotify Audiobook Trends for 2025

NYT 100 Notable Books of 2025, which does, in fact, contain its top 10

NYT Top Ten

NPR’s “Books We Love”

WaPo’s top ten

Goodreads Choice Awards
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Goodreads Choice Winners, NYT 10 Best, and Spotify Wrapped for Audiobooks

Jeff and Rebecca look back on their It Books selections from 2025 to see what they got right and wrong. But first, take a look at a pretty uninspiring slate of December new releases.

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December Releases:

 
House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk

 
Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear by Gyles Brandreth

 
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls by Adam Morgan

 
A Long Game by Elizabeth McCracken

 
The Tower and the Ruin by Michael Drout

 
Every Day I Read by Hwang Bo-Reum

 
Feast on Your Life by Tamar Adler

 
An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole

 
The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits

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2025 It Books Scorekeeping and December New Releases

Jeff and Rebecca wrap up the 2025 Holiday Recommendations.

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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

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The 2025 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 2

Jeff and Rebecca talk about B&N's finalists for their book of the year, why PW's best books of the year lists are so great and recent reading before they are joined by Brooke Nagler of The Book Group to talk about what it's like breaking into the world of books as an assistant to a literary agent.

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Discussed in this episode:
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
The Book Group
A belated fare-thee-well to John Gierach
Barnes & Noble’s Book of the Year finalists
The PW Best Books of the Year list is here, and it’s as hard to navigate as ever
The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
Conclave by Robert Harris
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
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B&N's Book of the Year Finalists, PW's Books of the Year, Recent Reading, and What It's Like to Be a Newcomer in the World of Literary Agencies

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