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Book Riot - The Podcast

The It Books of February 2025

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News Commentary, News, Books, Tv & Film

4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca consider ten contenders to be the It Book of the Month. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky. Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter. A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder. Discussed in this Episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon First Edition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.4

This is the bookwrap podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And it's time,

0:34.6

Rebecca. We're a little late. Well, it's five days into it. February 1st came on a weird day, but it's time, Rebecca. We're a little late. Well, it's a five days into it. February 1st came on a weird day.

0:40.8

But it's time for the It Books of February 2020, 25. I definitely know what year it is.

0:49.2

Long pause there. Yeah, I had to make sure. I'm like looking, I'm like frantically looking at my dashboard.

0:53.9

Does it anywhere say the year? Is that going to help you? Do your notes actually have the year on them?

0:58.5

No, they don't. Just have a bunch of stuff. This is your first time joining us. I prepare a list of the 10

1:03.7

finalists. And then we go one by one, knockout round style, survivor advances to declare the it book of the month.

1:14.3

The criteria for this is, I'd say it's a little bit like fear.

1:19.7

You can't see it, but you can feel it.

1:23.2

It's some vibes.

1:25.2

We've had, what, four quadrants of it Bookness in the past, but I could never consistently

1:30.0

remember what the four are, but there's, like, critical acclaim, it sells, people like it,

1:36.5

and something else.

1:37.1

Art.

1:37.7

Is it just sort of interesting or, you know, it's doing something?

1:41.4

Last month, it was a fate accompli that Onyx Storm would be the book,

1:47.9

a book of the month, but that doesn't mean the conversations can't be interesting. I will say

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