CLEVELAND, Ohio – This time of year, we run a week of book roundups, summarizing a variety of titles that came out in 2025 in time for holiday gift buying.

More than 125 books crossed our desk this year covering several topics.

Here is a glimpse of what we perused; click on the links in the headers below for details on the books (we include publisher, pages and price):

Music

Memoirs, biographies, photo books, more out in 2025

Veteran music writer Gary Graff took off his headphones to page through a lot of books this year. From Patti Smith to Ozzy Osbourne, Alicia Keys, Oasis and others, there’s no shortage of memoirs and biographic titles from singers and musicians, artists and bands.

General food / cookbooks

Food and cookbooks: 2025 titles cover brunch to barbecue

The range of foo

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