{"id":6535,"date":"2025-12-29T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=6535"},"modified":"2025-12-29T09:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:07:58","slug":"episode-281-bests-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-281-bests-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 281 – Bests of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another year has come and (almost) gone, and we’ve once again managed to read some good books. Let us tell you about them!<\/p>\n

Coming up next:\u00a0<\/strong>A January hiatus. Happy New Year! We\u2019ll see you in February!<\/p>\n

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Kait\u2019s Top 5 Best<\/h3>\n

\"The<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

5.) <\/span>The Woods all Black<\/em> by Lee Mandelo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

4.) Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zheng<\/em> by Kylie Lee Baker<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

3.) The Drowning House<\/em> by Cherie Priest<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Direct<\/a>\"What<\/a>\"Tell<\/a><\/p>\n

2.) Direct Descendant<\/em> by Tanya Huff<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1.) What Stalks the Deep<\/em> by T. Kingfisher<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bonus: Tell Me I’m Worthless<\/em> by Alison Rumfitt<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Renata\u2019s Top 5 Best<\/h3>\n

\"The<\/a>\"Joyride<\/a>\"Swordheart<\/a><\/p>\n

5.) The Keeper of Magical Things<\/em> by Julie Leong<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

4.) Joyride<\/em> by Susan Orlean<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

3.) Swordheart<\/em> by T. Kingfisher<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Everything<\/a>\"Racebook<\/a>\"To<\/a><\/p>\n

2.) Everything is Tuberculosis<\/em> by John Green<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1.) Racebook<\/em> by Tochi Onyebuchi<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bonus: To Ride a Rising Storm<\/em> by Moniquill Blackgoose<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Another year has come and (almost) gone, and we’ve once again managed to read some good books. Let us tell you about them! Coming up next:\u00a0A January hiatus. Happy New Year! We\u2019ll see you in February!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[2658,138,1272,2660,2661,1804,2659],"class_list":["post-6535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","category-ra","tag-alison-rumfitt","tag-bests","tag-cherie-priest","tag-kylie-lee-baker","tag-lee-mandelo","tag-t-kingfisher","tag-tanya-huff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6551,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions\/6551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}