Chief of Staff
Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the Chief of Staff for Riot New Media Group and a co-host of the Book Riot Podcast. She can be reached at rebecca@riotnewmedia.com.
Rebecca Joines Schinsky
Grab your coffee, settle into Sunday, and let the lists come to you. Here’s a holiday buffet of Best Books round-ups.
- The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025
- The Washington Post‘s 10 Best Books of 2025 (love to see Ruth by Kate Riley right up top!)
- NPR‘s Books We Love (384 titles!)
- The staff of The New Yorker keeps a running list of the best books they’ve read this year
- Publishers Weekly‘s Best Books 2025
- PEN America picks 15 books from Best Of lists
- Barnes & Noble names best books of the year and books of the year, which are, indeed, different things
- Amazon editors’ best books of 2025
- Bookshop breaks out the best fiction and nonfiction
- Libro.fm’s Top 10 Audiobooks of 2025
- Libby picks the best books of the year
- Audible names an Audiobook of the Year and a Top 20
- The New York Public Library does a hat trick with the best books for adults, teens, and kids
- And of course, Book Riot’s best books of 2025
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