So long, 2025--these were our favs!
So long, 2025--these were our favs!  
Podcast: The Books We Loved
Published On: Wed Dec 31 2025
Description: The girls round out the year by sharing their personal favorite reads of 2025. See below for the booklist.  Olivia's recs: Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid Heart the Lover, Lily King  The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai All the Way to the River, Elizabeth Gilbert This American Woman, Zarna Garg Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor  Back After This, Linda Holmes Swept Away, Beth O’Leary Manda's recs: No More Chairs, Gill Everyday Bean (Tiny Bean's Big Adventures, Book #1), Graegin Frank’s Red Hat, Avery Max in the Land of Spies (book 1); Max in the Land of Lies (book 2), Gidwitz We Were Liars (book 1), Family of Liars (book 2), We Fell Apart (book 3), E. Lockhart The Only One Left, Sager I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: one woman’s obsessive search for the Golden State Killer, McNamara The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (book 1), The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse, and the Storm (book 2), Charlie Mackesy