Happy new year! We kick off 2025 - and Backlisted's tenth anniversary year - with our traditional Winter Reading episode, in which Andy, John and Nicky recommend a selection of favourite books to see you through the next few months: fiction and non-fiction, old, new and not yet published. "May you go farther sooner."

Discussed in this episode and available to purchase from bookshop.org/backlisted, if in print:

Fat Time and Other Stories by Jeffery Renard Allen (Graywolf Press)
The Girls: A Story of Village Life by John Bowen (McNally Editions)
All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles (Galley Beggar)
The North Road by Rob Cowen (Heinemann Hutchinson)
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey (Faber)
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Faber)
Black and White Baby by Bobby Short (Dodd, Mead and Company) - https://archive.org/details/blackwhitebaby00shor/mode/2up
The Fraud by Zadie Smith (Penguin)
Base Notes: The Scents of a Life by Adelle Stripe (White Rabbit)
Earth to Moon: A Memoir by Moon Unit Zappa (White Rabbit)