Episode 97: 2025 Reading Horizons

To kick off the new year, we discuss some of he 2025 new releases we’re most excited about. We also share our personal 5 in ‘25—five books (new or old) that we can’t wait to read this year.

What are yours?

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Shownotes

Books

• Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young

• Middlemarch, by George Eliot

• Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPhee

• On the Evolution of All Political Parties, by Simone Weil, translated by Simon Leys

• Wind and Truth, by Brandon Sanderson

• The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman

• Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright

• Attila, by Aliocha Coll, translated by Katie Wittemore

• Attila, by Javier Serena, translated by Katie Wittemore

• Death Takes Me, by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Robin Myers and Sarah Booker

• Time of the Flies, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle

• Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice, by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by

• The Taiga Syndrome, by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana

• Is a River Alive, by Robert Macfarlane

• Underland: A Deep Time Journey, by Robert Macfarlane

• The Hour of the Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, by Terry Tempest Williams

• A Life on Paper, by George-Olivier Châteaureynard, translated by Edward Gauvin

• The Messengers, by George-Olivier Châteaureynard, translated by Edward Gauvin

• stay with me, by Hanne Ørstavik, translated by Martin Aitken

• Love, by Hanne Ørstavik, translated by Martin Aitken

• The Unworthy, by Augustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses

• The White Bear, by Henrik Pontoppidan, translated by Paul Larkin

• A Fortunate Man, by Henrik Pontoppidan, translated by Paul Larkin

• Hellions, by Julia Elliott

• The Deserters, by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell

• Compass, by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell

• Zone, by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell

• Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants, by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell

• Street of Thieves, by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell

• The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild, by Mathias Énard, translated by Frank Wynne

• Universality, by Natasha Brown

• The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch, translated by Jean Starr Untermeyer

• The Sleepwalkers, by Hermann Broch, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

• A Month in the Country, by J.C. Carr

• The Adventures of China Iron, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre

• Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence

• The Rainbow, by D.H. Lawrence

• The Dying Grass, by William T. Vollmann

• The Ice-Shirt, by William T. Vollmann

• Inferno, by Dante, translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

• Purgatorio, by Dante, translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

• Paradiso, by Dante, translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

• Purgatorio, by Dante, translated by D.M. Black

• Paradiso, by Dante, translated by D.M. Black

• The Divine Comedy, by Dante, translated by Allen Mandelbaum

• The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

• The Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

• Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

• The Birds, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Michael Barnes and Torbjørn Støverud

• The Ice Palace, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan

• The Bridges, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan

• The Seed, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Kenneth G. Chapman

• The Hills Reply, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan

• The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xueqin, translated by David Hawkes

• The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods

• The Mountain Lion, by Jean Stafford

• Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel

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