Ep 441 – Best Books of the Year 2025!

Episode 441

11th December 2025

Brea and Mallory pick their best books of the year!

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Brea and Mallory pick their best books of the year! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Books Mentioned –

Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood

Fiend by Alma Katsu

Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel

The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Harnett

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Daughter of Daring by Mallory O’Meara

Old Soul by Susan Barker

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

A Letter from the Lonesome Shore by Sylvie Cathrall

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman 

What Fury Brings by Tricia Levenseller

Angel Down by Daniel Kraus

The Dry Season by Melissa Febos

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab 

Actress of a Certain Age by Jeff Hiller

Sky Daddy by Kate Folk

Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd

 

Clean by Alia Trabucco Zeran, translated by Sophie Hughes

Strange Houses by Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion

The Brain at Rest by Joseph Jebelli

 

Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell, performed by Annette Amelia Oliveira

It Rhymes with Takei by George Takei

El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott

Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

Vantage Point by Sara Sligar

This is My Body by Lindsey King-Miller

The Original by Nell Stevens

Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man by Jesse Q. Sutanto

The Salvage by Anbara Salam

Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry by Elizabeth McCracken

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Do you love books? Want to learn how to make the most of your reading life? Join hosts Brea Grant and Mallory O’Meara every week as they discuss tips and tricks for reading better on Reading Glasses, a podcast designed to help you get more out of your literary experiences.

As professional creatives and mega-readers, Mallory and Brea are experts on integrating a love of reading into a busy lifestyle. Listeners will get help for bookish problems, like how to vanquish that To-Be-Read pile and organize those bookshelves. Brea and Mallory also offer advice on reader dilemmas. How do you climb out of a reading slump? How do you support authors while still getting books on the cheap? Where do you hide the bodies of the people who won’t stop talking while you’re trying to read? No matter what you read or how you read it, Reading Glasses will help you do it better.

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