Best Books of 2025

Dec 8, 2025

It’s our best books of the year episode!

 

Anna, Amanda and Annie reveal our favourite reads of 2025:

 

Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

The Time of the Child by Niall Williams

The Granddaughter by Bernhard Schlink translated by Charlotte Collins

A Guardian and a Thief by Megan Majhumdar

Eurotrash by Christian Kracht translated by Daniel Bowles

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngoze Adichie (and audio book)

Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor (and substack Sweater Weather)

Heart the Lover by Lily King

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Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz