It’s a new year and a new episode. Join Kate and Laura as they consider reading intentions for the year ahead, and try to set some realistic goals. Will 2025 be the year Kate gets into poetry? Will it be the year Laura weans herself off romance novels? And as always, they’re thinking of book club reads to come. Meanwhile Phil sets a goal for himself in 2025 that might surprise you.
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Books mentioned
4,000 Weeks and Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Rejection by Tony Tulithamutte
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
The George Smiley novels by John le Carre
Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgard
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
Assembly and Universality by Natasha Brown
Also a Poet and Crush by Ada Calhoun
Our Country Friends and Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart
Intimacies and Audition by Katie Kitamura
Robert Caro’s Fifth Lyndon Johnson book
Polostan by Neal Stephenson
Finance for the People by Paca Leon
The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk
My Friends by Hisham Matar
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel
The Gifts of Reading, Robert Macfarlane (ed)
Untitled Memoir from Nicola Sturgeon
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind trilogy)
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Living and Death and Intimations by Zadie Smith
