Vanessa Diaz sits in for Rebecca this week and talks to Jeff about the challenges of making a best books of the year list before getting into the news of the week.

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Amazon’s best books of the year

David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh

B&N’s best book of the Year is Mona’s Eyes

The 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards. 

I’m bookmarking this deep dive into the fashion industry’s recurrent interest in literature for knife-and-fork reading this weekend

Reader’s Digest asked three professional designers to pick the best book covers of the year

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Somebody is Walking On Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez

Stolen Crown by Tracy Borman

Devouring Time by Tod Goddard

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

Flashlight by Susan Choi

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