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Our Staff Recommends…

  • New Fiction in December
  • New Nonfiction in December
  • New Movies & TV in December
  • Holiday Fiction
  • Unexpected POV
  • Heists or Escapes
  • Films with the Name in the Title
  • Early Films of Well-Known Actors

New Fiction in December

The Award
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
The Quiet Mother
Silent Bones
Stuart Woods' Blown Away
Spasm
Tailored Realities
Some Bright Nowhere
The Living and the Dead
The White Hot
The Time Hop Coffee Shop
When the Fireflies Dance

New Nonfiction in December

The girl in the middle : a recovered history of the American West
Replaceable you : adventures in human anatomy
Coming up short : a memoir of my America
McNamara at war : a new history
Tomorrow is yesterday : life, death, and the pursuit of peace in Israel/Palestine
Ready for my closeup : the making of Sunset Boulevard and the dark side of the Hollywood dream
Dead and alive : essays
Everything evolves : why evolution explains more than we think, from proteins to politics
The man of many fathers : life lessons disguised as a memoir
The social lives of birds : flocks, communes, and families
Unbearable : five women and the perils of pregnancy in America
The rise and rise of Chappell Roan : the stories behind the songs, tours, and birth of an icon
A dream deferred : Jesse Jackson and the fight for black political power
Now departing : a small-town mortician on death, life, and the moments in between
The last supper : how to overcome the coming food crisis
Black history is for everyone
Why Plato matters now
Fearless, sleepless, deathless : what fungi taught me about nourishment, poison, ecology, hidden histories, zombies, and Black survival
Intrepid girls : the complicated history of the Girl Scouts of the USA
Sitting with dogs : stories of rescue dogs going from lost to loved
She's a host : an unbuttoned cookbook for elegant entertaining
Warhead : how the brain shapes war and war shapes the brain
Along Lake Michigan : shipwreck stories of life and loss
Guided : the secret path to an illuminated life

New Movies & TV in December

The Naked Gun
The Roses
Downton Abbey. The Grand Finale
Spinal Tap II : The End Continues
A Remarkable Place to Die. [Series 1]
The One That Got Away. [Season 1]
Eden
Him
Universal Language (Persian)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Splitsville
CODA
Love, Brooklyn
Anemone
Red Sonja
Together
Daniela Forever
The Great Lillian Hall
Caught Stealing
Maigret
The Conjuring. Last Rites

2025 Book Bingo: Unexpected POV

Beautyland
The Antarctica of Love
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Unlikely Animals
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
Klara and the Sun
Piranesi
Hollow Kingdom
In the Dream House
The Silent Patient
The Book Thief
Nutshell
The Bees
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
Room
WE3
My Name is Red
White is for Witching
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Pride of Baghdad
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls
Skinny Legs and All
Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves
Fight Club
Zombie
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
Geek Love
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Letters to a Young Poet
You

2025 Movie Bingo: Early Film of Well-Known Actor

10 Things I Hate About You
12 Years a Slave
American Graffiti
Anna Karenina
Atonement
Catch Me if You Can
Center Stage
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dazed and Confused
The Deer Hunter
Empire of the Sun
The Falling
Heavenly Creatures
The Impossible
The Long, Hot Summer
My Summer of Love
The Outsiders
Primal Fear
Roman Holiday
A Room with a View
Schindler's List
Sideways
Smooth Talk
A Soldier's Story
Three Amigos
To Die For
To Have and Have Not
Topper : Topper & Topper returns
Up in the Air
Vamps
Valley Girl
Half Nelson

2025 Movie Bingo: Name in the Title

Abigail
Harriet
Fast Charlie
Barbie
Amanda
Till
Arthur the King
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Une Belle Course = Driving Madeleine
Bob Marley, One Love
Carol
Chop & Steele
Confess, Fletch
Eileen
Elvis
Emily the Criminal
Ezra
Five Nights at Freddy's
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Judas and the Black Messiah
Jules
Julia
Lean on Pete
Lisa Frankenstein
Little Richard : I Am Everything
Love, Simon
A Man Called Otto
Priscilla
Remembering Gene Wilder
Toni Erdmann
Tori et Lokita = Tori and Lokita
Zama
Zola
Freud's Last Session
Molly's Game
Cyrano

2025 Book Bingo: Heists or Escapes

The Confidence Games
The Excitements
Fear the Flames
A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
The Lady Waiting
Nicked
The Wealth of Shadows
To Have and to Heist
The Monsters We Defy
Portrait of a Thief
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Among Thieves
Blacktop Wasteland
Harlem Shuffle
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
Children of the Stars
Cruel Summer
Dear Child
An Illusion of Thieves
The Water Dancer
The Glass Ocean
The Take
The Impossible Fortress
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
The Directive
The Heist
Runner
Richard Stark's Parker. Book One, The Hunter: A Graphic Novel
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Fingersmith
Three Fates

Holiday Fiction

A Holly Jolly Diwali
The Matzah Ball
Three Holidays and a Wedding
You Make It Feel Like Christmas
The Christmas Orphans Club
Faking Christmas
Wrapped with a Beau
It's a Fabulous Life
One Christmas Morning
The Wishing Bridge
Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop
The Ex-Mas Holidays
Unleashed Holiday
The Christmas Fix
Bright Lights, Big Christmas
A Christmas to Remember
The Holiday Mix-Up
The Christmas Guest
The Trouble with Tinsel
The Christmas Appeal
A Mistletoe Affair
This Time Next Year
A Catered New Year's Eve
Eight Nights to Win Her Heart
The Most Wonderful Time
Season of love
A Winter Wish
The Merriest Misters
The Mistletoe Mystery
Kiss Me at Christmas
The Christmas Crush
Christmas Sweater Weather
The Christmas Countdown
December Market
The Book Club Hotel

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