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6 The best books we read in 2025

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Verge Staff @ The Verge 2 place · today 08:00 EDT

The best books we read in 2025

These days when you want to engage with some media, you can choose from podcasts, videos, games, live performances - or books, one of the oldest and most popular ways to learn something new or escape (at least temporarily) from today's troubled world. We polled the staff of The Verge to find out what books […]

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