Today the ladies discussed readalikes for the show (and book!) everyone is talking about: Heated Rivalry.

Titles discussed include:

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
• Red White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
• If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales & Cale Dietrich
• Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Prospects of KT Hoffman
• The Long Run by James Acker
• Check, Please!: Book 1, Hockey (and it’s sequel, Check Please: Book 2, Sticks and Scones), Ngozi Ukazu
• Like Real People Do: a novel, E.L. Massey
• Him (book 1), Us (book 2), Epic (book 2.5), Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy
• All's Fair in Love and Field Hockey, Kit Rosewater
• Rookie Move (Brooklyn Bruisers #1), Sarina Bowen

Due to the recent success of the film, K-Pop Demon Hunters, the gals thought it was high time to offer our listeners some K-Pop inspired reading recs! Buckle up, buttercups, and be prepared to impress your friends (and, dare we say, kids) with this K-Pop inspired reading list!

Titles discussed today:

• K-pop Confidential, Stephan Lee
• I’ll Be the One, Lyla Lee
• XOXO, Axie Oh
• Somewhere Only We Know, Mauren Goo
• I'll love you forever: notes from a K-pop fan, Giaae Kwon
• Skylar and the K-Pop Principal, Luan Goldie
• Make a Move, Sunny Park!, Jessica Kim
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (trilogy), Grace Lin
• Meesh the Bad Demon, Michelle Lam
• When You Trap a Tiger, Tae Keller
• BTS: K-pop's biggest headliners, Leslie Holleran

The girls round out the year by sharing their personal favorite reads of 2025. See below for the booklist.

Olivia's recs:

• Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Heart the Lover, Lily King
• The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai
• All the Way to the River, Elizabeth Gilbert
• This American Woman, Zarna Garg
• Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor
• Back After This, Linda Holmes
• Swept Away, Beth O’Leary

Manda's recs:

• No More Chairs, Gill
• Everyday Bean (Tiny Bean's Big Adventures, Book #1), Graegin
• Frank’s Red Hat, Avery
• Max in the Land of Spies (book 1); Max in the Land of Lies (book 2), Gidwitz
• We Were Liars (book 1), Family of Liars (book 2), We Fell Apart (book 3), E. Lockhart
• The Only One Left, Sager
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: one woman’s obsessive search for the Golden State Killer, McNamara
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (book 1), The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse, and the Storm (book 2), Charlie Mackesy