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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books perfect for holiday gifting! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! It's happening, readers—we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you hate carrying around bulky hardcovers, you're on a budget, you want a wider range of recommendations, or all of the above, you can now get a paperback subscription from TBR, curated just for you by one of our Bibliologists. You can also gift it (and the holidays, they are coming.) Get all the details at mytbr.co. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed All the Fighting Parts - Hannah V. Sawyerr Happiness Falls - Angie Kim General Mystery: The Woman in the Library - Sulari Gentill Psychological suspense/horror crossover: Help for the Haunted - John Searles True crime: American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land -

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester books about vampires! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! It's happening, readers — we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you hate carrying around bulky hardcovers, you're on a budget, you want a wider range of recommendations, or all of the above, you can now get a paperback subscription from TBR, curated just for you by one of our Bibliologists. You can also gift it (and the holidays, they are coming). Get all the details at mytbr.co. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED And Then She Fell - Alicia Elliot Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse / Southern Vampire Mysteries) A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising - Raymond A. Villareal Vampires of El Norte - Isabel Cañas Fangs - Sarah Andersen The Reformatory - Tananarive Due Blackwater Falls - Au

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss great picks for book clubs. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS Time Magazine - 100 best mystery and thriller books of all time.  Jessica Knoll’s latest novel, Bright Young Women, is getting a TV adaptation. BOOKS DISCUSSED Blackwater Falls - Ausma Zehanat Khan While Justice Sleeps - Stacey Abrams Vampires of El Norte - Isabel Cañas Anyw

Katie and Kendra are out this week, so we're sharing this episode of First Edition, where Jeff interviews James McBride on the occasion of the publication of his new novel, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. This book has a murder mystery at its core, so we know you will love it! Check out First Edition on Twitter, on Substack, and on Instagram. Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Beverly Cleary The Autobiography of Malcolm X The Power Bro

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss book picks for Hispanic Heritage Month! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! Book Riot's editorial team is writing for casual and power readers alike over at The Deep Dive! During the month of September, all new free subscribers will be entered to win Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, plus 5 mystery books from The Deep Dive. To enter, simply start a free subscription to The Deep Dive. No payment method required! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS 2023 Anthony Awards BOOKS DISCUSSED Small Spaces - Katherine Arden The House in the Pines - Ana Reyes Untamed Shore - Silvia Moreno-Garcia Ghost Squad - Claribel A. Ortega Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado Never Whistle at Night edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Black Sheep - Rachel

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss catching up on their backlist TBRs!! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! Book Riot's editorial team is writing for casual and power readers alike over at The Deep Dive! During the month of September, all new free subscribers will be entered to win Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, plus 5 mystery books from The Deep Dive. To enter, simply start a free subscription to The Deep Dive. No payment method required! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS: Sister Holiday Sequel Announced BOOKS DISCUSSED: Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery - Margot Douaihy Happiness Falls - Angie Kim The Maid - Nita Prose Blackwater Falls - Ausma Zehanat Khan Catherine House - Elisabeth Thomas The Good House - Tananarive Due The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby - G.Z. Schmi

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss catching up on 2023 releases on their TBRs!! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Wanna escape the Dog Days of summer with purrfect book recommendations? Let Tailored Book Recommendations pick awesome books to keep you entertained. Touch grass, grab some lemonade, and enjoy TBR's picks. Visit mytbr.co to sign up today – it only takes a few minutes. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Exiles - Jane Harper The Mistress at Bhatia House - Sujata Massey I’m Not Done With You Yet - Jesse Q. Sutanto Board to Death - CJ Connor The Only One Left - Riley Sager Red London - Alma Katsu If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com. Otherwise you can: Find Kendra on Instagram and Twitter @kdwinchester Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all next time! Learn more about

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester talk about books by women in translation! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Wanna escape the Dog Days of summer with purrfect book recommendations? Let Tailored Book Recommendations pick awesome books to keep you entertained. Touch grass, grab some lemonade, and enjoy TBR's picks. Visit mytbr.co to sign up today! NEWS Hyperion Avenue is debuting a new Marvel crime series! These will be novels rather than graphic novels, and they’ll feature writing from S.A. Cosby, Lisa Jewell, and Alex Segura to kick things off. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED How Can I Help You - Laura Sims The Aosawa Murders - Riku Onda, transl. Alison Watts The Resting Place - Camilla Sten, transl. Alexandra Fleming Our Share of Night - Mariana Enríquez, transl. Megan McDowell Cursed Bunny - Bora Chung, transl. Anton Hur Looking Glass Sound - Catriona Ward The Dark Place - B

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss literary crime fiction! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! What do S.A. Cosby, Khaled Hosseini, Sarah Bakewell, and Yahdon Israel have in common? They've been guests on Book Riot's newest podcast, First Edition where BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O'Neal explores the wide bookish world. Subscribe to hear them and stay to hear Book Riot's editors pick the "it" book of the month. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS Shirley Jackson Awards Long Island Serial Killer - murders & search written about in Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery - Robert Kolker Literary Crime Fiction (Crime Reads) BOOKS DISCUSSED Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton Shelter by Jung Yun Kala by Colin Walsh Urgent Matters

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their most anticipated book for the second half of 2023! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! What do S.A. Cosby, Khaled Hosseini, Sarah Bakewell, and Yahdon Israel have in common? They've been guests on Book Riot's newest podcast, First Edition where BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O'Neal explores the wide bookish world. Subscribe to hear them and stay to hear Book Riot's editors pick the "it" book of the month. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS STOP THE PRESSES: TANA FRENCH HAS A NEW BOOK COMING IN 2024!!!! Alyssa Cole also has a new thriller coming out!!  Crime Reads Best of List for the first half of 2023 BOOKS DISCUSSED Where All the Light Tends to Go - David Joy Happiness Falls - Angie Kim (August 29) Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll (Sept. 19) The Refor

Kendra Winchester and Katie McLain Horner share some of their favorite scary summer books! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! What do S.A. Cosby, Khaled Hosseini, Sarah Bakewell, and Yahdon Israel have in common? They've been guests on Book Riot's newest podcast, First Edition where BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O'Neal explores the wide bookish world. Subscribe to hear them and stay to hear Book Riot's editors pick the "it" book of the month. *This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission BOOKS DISCUSSED The Postcard by Anne Berest, Translated from French by Tina Kover So Cold the River by Michael Koryta When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole Summers Sons by Lee Mandelo Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning by Sarah Weinman Goodbye Earl: A Revenge Novel by Leesa Cross-Smit

Kendra Winchester and Katie McLain Horner discuss mysteries and thrillers for Audiobook Month! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more drawn from our collective experience as power readers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and bookish professionals? Subscribe to The Deep Dive, a biweekly newsletter to inform and inspire readers, delivered to your inbox! Your first read (The Power Reader's Guide to Reading Logs & Trackers) is on the house. Check out all the details and choose your membership level at bookriot.substack.com.  This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS Winners of the 2023 International Thriller Writer Awards BOOKS DISCUSSED  Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng , Narrated by Cassandra Campbell Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsa

Kendra Winchester and Katie McLain Horner discuss books for Pride Month! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more drawn from our collective experience as power readers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and bookish professionals? Subscribe to The Deep Dive, a biweekly newsletter to inform and inspire readers, delivered to your inbox! Your first read (The Power Reader's Guide to Reading Logs & Trackers) is on the house. Check out all the details and choose your membership level at bookriot.substack.com. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS Megan Abbott’s Beware the Woman is being turned into a film. BOOKS DISCUSSED Mary Rose - Geoffrey Girard Reprieve - James Han Mattson Dirt Creek - Hayley Scrivenor  Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw

Kendra Winchester and special guest Liberty Hardy discuss mystery and thrillers for AANHPI Heritage Month! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O'Neal explores the wide bookish world in the new podcast First Edition. Interviews, lists, rankings, retrospectives, recommendations, and much more, featuring people who know and love books. Subscribe to First Edition on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your podcatcher of choice. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS “A Utah mom wrote a kids’ book about grief after her husband’s death. Now she’s charged with his murder” (CNN) Books Mentioned All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby Cutting Teeth - Chandler Baker The Trauma Beat: A Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News - Tamara Cherry  Your House Will Pay - Steph Cha Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advi

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester talk about books perfect for reading on road trips! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! Book Riot co-founder Jeff O’Neal explores the wide bookish world in the new podcast First Edition. Interviews, lists, rankings, retrospectives, recommendations, and much more, featuring people who know and love books. Subscribe to First Edition on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your podcatcher of choice. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS The 2023 Edgar Awards have been announced! BOOKS DISCUSSED Devolution – Max Brooks The Martian – Andy Weir The Hunger – Alma Katsu Scorched Grace – Margot Douaihy Mapping the Interior – Stephen Graham Jones Fixit – Joe Ide Warrior Girl Unearthed – Angeline Boulley If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at re

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss YA mystery novels! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more from experts in the world of books and reading? Subscribe to Book Riot’s newest newsletter, The Deep Dive, to get exclusive content delivered to your inbox. Subscribe and choose your membership level today at bookriot.substack.com. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS Anne Perry Dies at 84 (Book Riot) BOOKS DISCUSSED Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice – Cristina Rivera Garza She Is a Haunting – Trang Thanh Tran The Getaway – Lamar Giles Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley Sadie – Courtney Summers Sisters of the Lost Nation – Nick Medina Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss novels nominated for the Edgar Awards! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more from experts in the world of books and reading? Subscribe to Book Riot’s newest newsletter, The Deep Dive, to get exclusive content delivered to your inbox. Subscribe and choose your membership level today at bookriot.substack.com. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS “Oscar Isaac will play a sexy Kurt Vonnegut in a new crime series.” (Hey, I’m just quoting the experts here!) Amazon has canceled Three Pines after just one season. Amazon is adapting E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars as a series. BOOKS DISCUSSED The Woman in the Library – Sulari Gentill Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Tw

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss noir novels! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED The Resemblance – Laura Nossett The Devil Takes You Home – Gabino Iglesias Scorched Grace – Margaret Douaihy On the Savage Side – Tiffany McDaniel When These Mountains Burn – David Joy Red London – Alma Katsu We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com. Otherwise you can: Find Kendra on Instagram and Twitter @kdwinchester Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all next time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since Katie McLain Horner is on vacation this week, Liberty Hardy joins Kendra Winchester to discuss middle grade mysteries! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! NEWS Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more from experts in the world of books and reading? Subscribe to Book Riot’s newest newsletter, The Deep Dive, to get exclusive content delivered to your inbox. Subscribe and choose your membership level today at bookriot.substack.com This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS MENTIONED  I Have Some Questions for You – Rebecca Makkai The Secret History – Donna Tartt The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels – Beth Lincoln, Illustrated by Claire Powell Malamander (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea Book 1) – Thomas Taylor and Tom Booth The Dare: Friends, Family, and Other Eerie Mysteries by Cynthe

Tune in as Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester crime books by Black authors. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! NEWS Walter Mosely has been awarded the 2023 CWA Diamond Dagger Award This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED How to Sell a Haunted House – Grady Hendrix The Violin Conspiracy – Brendan Slocumb All Her Little Secrets / Anywhere You Run – Wanda M. Morris My Darkest Prayer – S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby on the New York Times Book Review podcast The Cutting Season – Attica Locke Scorched Grace – Margot Douaihy I Have Some Questions For You – Rebecca Makkai If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com. Otherwise you can: Find Kendra on Instagram and Twitter @kdwinchester Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all