Summer's Best

Best Books of the Summer of 2025.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome. This is the WZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich.
Every one of our four seasons offers up a best
of list of one kind or another, certainly true when
it comes to books, so I picked one at random
to share with you. This according to the LA Times
the best books of the Summer of twenty twenty five,
and here are some of the highlights. Meet Me at
the Crossroads by Megan Giddings, The Strangers, Five Extraordinary Black

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Men in the Worlds That Made Them by esco Eshan,
Putting Myself Together by Jamaica Kincaid, The Dance in the
Fire by Daniel Saldana, Paris Archive of Unknown Universes by
Reuben Rayes, Junior, King of Ashes by S. A. Crosby,
and Flashlight by Susan Choy. Interestingly, when you look at
the New York Times list for twenty twenty five summer,
you'll find many of the same titles, but a few

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different ones. People Like Us by Jason Mott and Bury
Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab.
It's always fun to catch the Sunday book section in
any newspaper to get some fresh ideas. I'm Jordan Rich
and that's the book club. WZ Boston's news radio