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Jeff and Rebecca talk about the books they still want to get to before 2026 gets here.
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Flesh by David Szalay
Maggie by Katie Yee
Kaplan's Plot by Jason Diamond
Who is Government? by Michael Lewis
Some Bright Nowhere by Ann Packer
The Uncool by Cameron Crowe
Joyride by Susan Orlean
A Truce That is Not Peace by Miriam Toews
Trying by Chloe Caldwell
Next of Kin by Gabrielle Hamilton
Girl Warrior by Joy Harjo
The Season by Helen Garner
Does This Make Me Funny? by Zosia Mamet
Palaver by Bryan Washington
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Black-Owned by Char Adams
This is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee
Every Screen on the Planet by Emily Baker-White
Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Heart the Lover by Lily King
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood
A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie
Squirrel by Nancy Castaldo
Isola by Allegra Goodman
We The People by Jill Lepore
The History of Money by David McWilliams
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
The Emergency by George Packer
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott
Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart
Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
The Librarians by Sherry Thomas
The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett
The Persian by David McCloskey
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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