Best of 2025 with Shanon & Nolan

<p>We&#39;re baaaaaaaack! Sorry for the wait yall, life comes at ya real quick. As always, we wait until the actual end of the year to make it through everything we want to read so if you think this is late just remember everyone else copped out and made lists too early. That&#39;s what we tell ourselves. So in this episode we catch up on some book news and then present our top 5 books of the year (each) plus books we&#39;re looking forward to in 2026. </p><p><br></p><p><em><strong>Books and Authors mentioned in this Episode:</strong></em></p><p>David Szalay - Flesh </p><p>Rabih Alameddine - The True True Story of Raja The Gullible</p><p>Rachel Reid - Heated Rivalry Series</p><p>Mark Z. Danielewski - Tom’s Crossing</p><p>Jess Walter - So Far Gone</p><p>Lucas Schaefer - The Slip</p><p>Addie E Hitchens - Dominion</p><p>Sean Hewitt - Open, Heaven</p><p>Katie Riley - Ruth</p><p>Torrey Peter - Stag Dance</p><p>Virginia Evans - The Correspondent </p><p>Daniel Kraus - Angel Down</p><p>Brian Goldstone - There Is No Place For Us</p><p>George Saunders - Vigil</p><p>Douglas Stuart - John of John</p><p>Patrick Radden Keefe - London falling</p><p>Jesmyn Ward - On Witness and Repair</p><p>Daniel Mason - Country People</p><p>Ben Lerner - Transcipt</p><p><br></p>