Episode #31: In Conversation with Rohan Maitzen About Our Most Anticipated Books of 2025

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss their most anticipated books of 2025 with Rohan Maitzen, English Professor at Dalhousie University, critic, and writer of the Novel Readings blog.

For our next episode, we will discuss Mobility by Lydia Keisling. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late January.

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Books Mentioned:

• Widening the Skirts of Light: Essays on George Eliot by Rohan Maitzen
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Gliff by Ali Smith
• The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington
• Opus Siniestrus by Leonora Carrington
• Lili Is Crying by Helene Bessette
• Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay
• Radio Treason The Trials of Lord Haw-Haw, the British Voice of Nazi Germany by Rebecca West
• The Deserters by Mathias Énard, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
• Zone by Mathias Énard, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
• The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild by Mathias Énard, translated from the French by Frank Wynne
• Exophony: Voyages Outside the Moher Tongue by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
• Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
• Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Susan Bernofsky
• Makeshift by Sarah Campion
• The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, translated from the German by Philip Boehm
• The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
• Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
• Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya
• Wildcat Dome by Yuko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
• Love in Exile by Shon Faye
• The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
• So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania by Levi Shalit, translated by Veronica Belling, Ellen Cassedy and Andrew Cassel
• The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
• Sun City by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal
• Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative by Hershel Parker
• Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 1, 1819-1851) by Hershel Parker
• Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 2, 1851-1891) by Hershel Parker
• Melvill by Rodrigo Fresan, translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Mobility by Lydia Keisling

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