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EPISODE · Dec 30, 2025 · 14 MIN

These Books Got Me Through 2025 | The Deep

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Erika looks back on everything she read in 2025 – American history, satire, murder mysteries, and children’s classics—while juggling motherhood, work, and ten-minute reading windows. This year-end book roundup considers what our reading habits reveal about attention, endurance, and staying human in a distracted age.Timestamps:0:00 - Intro1:33 - The Civil War: A Narrative — Shelby Foote2:57 - Jayber Crowe — Wendell Berry4:28 - Martyrs of the 20th Century — Robert Royal4:59 - Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West — Hampton Sides5:55 - Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather6:32 - Dominion — Tom Holland7:37 - Scoop — Evelyn Waugh8:42 - Tiger in the Smoke — Margery Allingham9:14 - Against the Machine — Paul Kingsnorth11:07 - Advent Homilies — John Henry Newman11:40 - Children’s Books (Rapid-Fire)12:59 - ConclusionSubscribe to the LOOPcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theLOOPcast

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