HPL Podcast: 2025 Year-End Roundtable Discussion

Enjoy our special end-of-year roundtable discussing our favorite (and least favorite) books and media of 2025 and what we’re looking forward to in 2026.

List of books/media discussed:

  • Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • The Summer Hikaru Died, Mokumokuren
  • Alchemised, SenLinYu
  • The Black Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #20) & The Gray Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #19), Louise Penny
  • The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans
  • Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
  • Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl #1), Matt Dinniman
  • Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
  • Atavists: Stories, Lydia Millet
  • The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas
  • Babel, R.F. Kuang
  • The Framed Women of Ardemore House (Ardemore House #1) & The Dead Came To Stay (Aredemore House #2), Brandy Schillace
  • Read Between the Lines (Ms. Right #1) & No Rings Attached (Ms. Right #2), Rachel Lacey
  • Sky Full of Elephants, Cebo Campbell
  • The Spellshop (Spellshop #1) & The Enchanted Greenhouse (Spellshop #2), Sarah Beth Durst
  • Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde #1), Heather Fawcett
  • The Grace of Wild Things, Heather Fawcett
  • A Court of Thorns and Roses (book series), Sarah J. Maas
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
  • Sunrise on the Reaping, Susan Collins
  • People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry
  • Off-Campus (upcoming TV series based on the book series by Elle Kennedy)
  • Percy Jackson & the Olympians (TV series, based on the book series by Rick Riordan)
  • Bridgerton (TV series based on the book series by Julia Quinn)
  • Vagabond, Tim Curry
  • A Monsoon Rising (The Hurricane Wars #2) & The Shattered Tempest (The Hurricane Wars #3), Thea Guanzon
  • The Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) & Dead Beat (Alex Stern #3), Leigh Bardugo
  • Silo (TV series based on the books Wool, Shift & Dust by Hugh Howey)
  • American Girl & Dear America series
  • Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure, Lewis Hancox
  • Transitions: A Mother’s Journey, Élodie Durand
  • Hypercapitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them, Larry Gonick & Tim Kasser
  • Wish Monster: A Middle Grade Halloween Horror Tale About a Wish-Granting Creature and the Price of Bringing the Dead Back, J. A. White
  • Fourth Wing (Empyrean #1) & Iron Flame (Empyrean #2), Rebecca Yarros
  • Don’t Trust Fish, Neil Sharpson & Dan Santat
  • Flotsam, David Wiesner
  • Roxaboxen: A Picture Book About Childhood Imagination and the Transforming Magic of Boxes, Sticks, and Sand for Children, Alice McLerran & Barbara Cooney
  • The Wedding People, Alison Espach
  • Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby van Pelt
  • Untypical, Pete Wharmby
  • Silver Elite, Dani Francis
  • Three Days in June, Anne Tyler
  • Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V. E. Schwab
  • Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, V. E. Schwab