Shoshana and Mhairie’s 2025 Favorites

Our contributors will be teaming up over the next few weeks to tell each other about their favorite books of the year! First, Shoshana and Mhairie share a spoiler-free chat about their favorite books of 2025. This conversation includes books in a variety of genres and formats that are sure to entertain these long winter nights. Friends, please take care of yourselves and be sure to check the content warnings before reading.

Books and resources mentioned:

Shoshana’s book

5. “He Dies For” by Erin Dunn

4. “Drums of the Black God” by P Djeli Clark

3. ZomRomCom by Olivia Dade

2. “I was abducted by aliens and now I’m trapped in a romantic comedy” by Kimberly Lemming

1. “The Witch’s Guide to Magical Inn Management” by Sangu Mandanna

mary’s book

5. The Book of Witchcraft and Wizardry by C.J. Cook

4. Hannah Kent’s funeral

3. The Abbey of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

2. What’s Hungry by Catherine Dang

1. Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Stories, by Heather Fawcett

Shoshana’s gift book:

Please Check #1 and Please Check #2 by Ngozi Ukazu

The Girl I’ve Been Tess Sharp

Pretending: The Lies Women Tell About Sex and What They Reveal by Lux Alptraum

Alchemy Author: SenLinYu

Murder by Crows by Sarah Yearwood-Lovett

Patricia Wants to Hug Samantha Allen

Alexis Hall looking for groups

Mhairie’s gift book:

Blood Relay by Devon Mihesuah – Published 2026

The Buffalo Hunters by Stephen Graham Jones

The rest of Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde series (Encyclopedia of Elves and Maps of Foreign Lands)

Underworld: A Journey into the Deep Ocean by Susan Casey (Read this in 2024, but I have purchased this book as a gift no less than 3 times and recommend it all the time. This has definitely been my hottest non-fiction piece of the last few years. Hela is fun.)

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This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral lands of the Dakota people.

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