End-of-year 2025 Roundtable Books & Media Discussion

Enjoy our special end-of-year roundtable discussing our favorite (and least favorite) books and media of 2025 and what we're looking forward to in 2026.

List of books/media discussed:

• Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Summer Hikaru Died, Mokumokuren
• Alchemised, SenLinYu
• The Black Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #20) & The Gray Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #19), Louise Penny
• The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans
• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
• Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl #1), Matt Dinniman
• Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
• Atavists: Stories, Lydia Millet
• The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas
• Babel, R.F. Kuang
• The Framed Women of Ardemore House (Ardemore House #1) & The Dead Came To Stay (Aredemore House #2), Brandy Schillace
• Read Between the Lines (Ms. Right #1) & No Rings Attached (Ms. Right #2), Rachel Lacey
• Sky Full of Elephants, Cebo Campbell
• The Spellshop (Spellshop #1) & The Enchanted Greenhouse (Spellshop #2), Sarah Beth Durst
• Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde #1), Heather Fawcett
• The Grace of Wild Things, Heather Fawcett
• A Court of Thorns and Roses (book series), Sarah J. Maas
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
• Sunrise on the Reaping, Susan Collins
• People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry
• Off-Campus (upcoming TV series based on the book series by Elle Kennedy)
• Percy Jackson & the Olympians (TV series, based on the book series by Rick Riordan)
• Bridgerton (TV series based on the book series by Julia Quinn)
• Vagabond, Tim Curry
• A Monsoon Rising (The Hurricane Wars #2) & The Shattered Tempest (The Hurricane Wars #3), Thea Guanzon
• The Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) & Dead Beat (Alex Stern #3), Leigh Bardugo
• Silo (TV series based on the books Wool, Shift & Dust by Hugh Howey)
• American Girl & Dear America series
• Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure, Lewis Hancox
• Transitions: A Mother's Journey, Élodie Durand
• Hypercapitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them, Larry Gonick & Tim Kasser
• Wish Monster: A Middle Grade Halloween Horror Tale About a Wish-Granting Creature and the Price of Bringing the Dead Back, J. A. White
• Fourth Wing (Empyrean #1) & Iron Flame (Empyrean #2), Rebecca Yarros
• Don’t Trust Fish, Neil Sharpson & Dan Santat
• Flotsam, David Wiesner
• Roxaboxen: A Picture Book About Childhood Imagination and the Transforming Magic of Boxes, Sticks, and Sand for Children, Alice McLerran & Barbara Cooney
• The Wedding People, Alison Espach
• Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby van Pelt
• Untypical, Pete Wharmby
• Silver Elite, Dani Francis
• Three Days in June, Anne Tyler
• Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V. E. Schwab
• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, V. E. Schwab