2025 Favorites from Renee & Nox

Our contributors teamed up to tell one another about their favorite books of the year. Renee and Nox round out this podcast series with their cozy, feel-good favorites. If you need a book that's like a warm hug (and who doesn't right now?), tune in!     Book and resources mentioned: Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton The Baby Dragon Cafe by AT Qureshi Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis What Happened to Belen? by Ana Elena Correa The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club by Gloria Chao Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez     Support and follow our hosts! Follow Renee: Instagram // The StoryGraph Follow Nox: Instagram // TikTok // Threads   Check out our online community here!    This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.   Original music by Amarissa   Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.