- - Ken Jennings Shares 3 Must-Read Books for 2025 That Fans Are Raving About

Carly SilvaFebruary 17, 2026 at 11:23 PM

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We'll take Recent Reading Recommendations for 1000, Ken!

Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings is letting viewers in on some of his favorite books he's read lately—and fans are already adding these titles to their reading lists.

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In a new clip posted to the Jeopardy!Instagram page, Jennings, 51, was asked to name his top titles from 2025, sharing three books he believes will make the perfect addition to any reader's bookshelf.

Here are some of the book titles Ken Jennings has been loving lately:

1. What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

"I liked the new Ian McEwan book," Jennings said, referring to the author's September 2025 release, What We Can Know.

McEwan's dystopian story "spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going," according to Goodreads. It was even nominated for the site's Readers' Favorite Fiction in 2025.

2. Good Things by Samin Nosrat

Up next, Jennings named Samin Nosrat's latest cookbook, Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love.

"Her new book is a cookbook but it's so much more," he said of Nosrat's September 2025 release, while adding that fans of her 2017 book, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, will definitely like this one, too.

3. Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood

For his third title, Jennings named Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood, calling it "the best book" he read in 2025.

"Nobody writes like her," he said of Lockwood, who is also known for No One Is Talking About This (2021) and Priestdaddy (2017).

Jennings further gushed, "She has the most astounding brain where you can't understand where these sentences and these viewpoints are coming from...It's like a miracle every page."

"I cannot recommend Tricia Lockwood more strongly," he added.

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Fans loved some of Jennings' recommendations so much that now several users are calling for Jennings to start up his own book club.

"A Ken Jennings Book Club might save 2026," one user wrote in the comments on Instagram.

"Ken always has the best taste!" someone else applauded, while one user said Jennings' ability to select great books is "elite."

"Logging onto my library account pronto," another fan chimed in.

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