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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their favorite books from 2024!
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Things Mentioned
Goodreads Choice Awards: Mystery / Thriller
Crime Reads Best Books
Washington Post’s Best Mystery Novels
Washington Post’s Best Thrillers
The Guardian’s Best Mystery and Thrillers
Kirkus’s Best Mystery and Thrillers
NYTs Best Crime Novels
Books Discussed
The Hunter - Tana French
The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo
Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Guide Me Home - Attica Locke
Model Home - Rivers Solomon
Butter - Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books for Indigenous Peoples' Month!
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Books Discussed
Exposure - Ramona Emerson
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls - Jessica McDiarmid
Bad Cree - Jessica Johns
Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones
Darkly - Marisha Pessl
The Rival - Jane Pek
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their 2024 holiday gift guide!
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News
Goodreads Choice Awards 2024
Books Discussed
They All Fall the Same by Wes Browne
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Bunny by Mona Awad
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
Blue Monday by Nicci French
Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books for a scary season send-off!
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Books Discussed
The Spite House - Johnny Compton
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story - Olga Tokarczuk, Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
The Hunger - Alma Katsu
Model Home - Rivers Solomon
This Girl’s a Killer - Emma C. Wells
Pony Confidential - Christina Lynch
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss mysteries and thrillers from The New York Times’s Best Books of the 21st Century!
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Things Mentioned
The New York Times’s Best Books of the 21st Century
Books Discussed
The Guest List - Lucy Foley
Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - Erik Larson
Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk, Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Reformatory - Tananarive Due, Chosen by Stephen Graham Jones NYTs
It Will Only Hurt For a Moment - Delilah S. Dawson
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story - Olga Tokarczuk, Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Curdle Creek - Yvonne Battle-Felton
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Katie and Kendra have been affected by Hurricane Helene, so we are bringing you this episode from the Book Riot Podcast in which Jeff and Rebecca consider 10 books (including a couple of buzzy mysteries!) and crown one of them the It Book of the Month.
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Discussed in this episode:
Operation Airdrop
The Message
The Mighty Red
Slaveroad
The Bog Wife
The Boyfriend
The Revenge of The Tipping Point
What I Ate in One Year
Sonny Boy
Meditations for Mortals
Absolution
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books for Latine Heritage Month!
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Books Discussed
The Guest List - Lucy Foley
Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Burn Baby Burn - Meg Medina
House of Bone and Rain - Gabino Iglesias
A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories - Mariana Enriquez, Trans. Megan McDowell
The Hitchcock Hotel - Stephanie Wrobel
Ruin Road - Lamar Giles
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss must-read sequels!
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News
Anthony Award winners
Books Discussed
Heaven My Home - Attica Locke
Dublin Murder Squad series - Tana French
Cult Following: the Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations—And Take Over Our Lives - J.W. Ocker
Where They Last Saw Her - Marcie R. Rendon
Summers End - Juneau Black
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes - Hisashi Kashiwai, Trans. Jesse Kirkwood
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Kendra Winchester and special guest Trisha Brown discuss genre-bending romance and mystery books!
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Things Mentioned
When in Romance
Books Discussed
The Vibrant Years by Sonali Dev
Summers End by Juneau Black
Rules of Engagement by Selena Montgomery
Whiteout by Adriana Anders
Think of England by KJ Charles
The Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues by Beth Lincoln
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books for Women in Translation Month!
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New S.A. Cosby Book with New Pine & Cedar Imprint
Things Mentioned
Women in Translation Month
Books Discussed
Midnight Rooms - Danyae Coles
Butter - Asako Yuzuki, Translated from Japanese by Polly Barton
The Kamogawa Food Detectives - Hisashi Kashiwai, Translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood
The Night Guest - Hildur Knútsdóttir, Translated from Icelandic by Mary Robinette Kowal - out September 3rd, 2024
The Only Child - Mi-Ae Seo, Translated from Korean by Yewon Jung
The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer - Rick Jervis
Death at Morning House - Maureen Johnson
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Katie McLain Horner and guest host Liberty Hardy talk about reading recommendations for fans of Knives Out!
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Make this your most bookish summer yet with personalized reading recommendations from Tailored Book Recommendations! Our bibliologists (aka professional book nerds) are standing by to help you find your next favorite read. Get your recommendations via email, or opt to receive hardcovers or paperbacks delivered right to your door. And with quarterly or annual plans available, TBR has something for every budget. Get started today from just $18!
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Books Discussed
A Copycat Conundrum - Lisa Yee; illustrated by Dan Santat
Saint of the Narrows Street - William Boyle
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone - Benjamin Stevenson
The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby - G. Z. Schmidt
The Woman in the Library - Sulari Gentil
The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues - Nova Jacobs
The Blonde Dies First - Joelle Wellington
Like Mother, Like Daughter - Kimberly McCreight
All the Sinners Bleed - S. A. Cosby
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their most anticipated books for the second half of 2024!
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Books Discussed
Chasing the Boogeyman - Richard Chizmar
Midnights Rooms - Donyae Coles
Like Mother, Like Daughter - Kimberly McCreight
Guide Me Home - Attica Locke
Exposure - Ramona Emerson
Model Home - Rivers Solomon
A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer - Maxie Dara
This Cursed House - Del Sander
Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable - Sarah Gerard
Our Kind of Game - Johanna Copeland
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Katie McLain Horner and guest host Liberty Hardy discuss LGBTQ mysteries for Pride Month!
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Books Discussed
The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani, translated by Sam Bett
Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
Survivor’s Guilt by Robyn Gigl
Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra & Dhonielle Clayton
Bury Me When I'm Dead by Cheryl A. Head
The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka
The Lion’s Den by Iris Mwanza
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books that they’d love to see turned into films, TV series, or mini-series.
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News:
2024 ITW Thriller Award Winners
Books Discussed:
When No One is Watching - Alyssa Cole
Devolution - Max Brooks
The Loch - Steve Alten
Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay
Butter - Asako Yuzuki, Translated by Polly Barton
What You Leave Behind - Wanda M. Morris
Middle of the Night - Riley Sager
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books that they’ve recommended to each other!
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News
Attica Locke is publishing the final book in her Highway 59 crime novel trilogy this summer!
Wake Up Dead Man
Books Discussed
The Hunter - Tana French
The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo
Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enriquez
City Under One Roof - Iris Yamashita
The Only One Left - Riley Sager
Tell Me Who You Are - Louisa Luna
Looking for Smoke - K. A. Cobell
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss mysteries and thrillers for AANHPI Heritage Month!
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Edgar Award Winners 2024
Pango Books
Books Discussed
Alma Katsu
The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen
The Return of Ellie Black - Emiko Jean
The Spirit Glass - Roshani Chokshi
Murder Casts a Shadow: A Hawai'i Mystery - Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
The Hunter’s Daughter - Nicola Solvinic
Woodworm - Layla Martínez
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books about cults!
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Things Mentioned
Webster’s Dictionary defines “cult” as…
Books Discussed
Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
Bunny - Mona Awad
Catherine House - Elisabeth Thomas
Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon
Home Is Where The Bodies Are - Jeneva Rose
The Return of Ellie Black - Emiko Jean
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss mysteries and thrillers nominated for the 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Awards!
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Edgar Awards Preview
Books Discussed
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto
All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders - John Glatt
Murder By Degrees - Ritu Mukerji
One of Us Knows - Alyssa Cole
Butter - Asako Yuzuki, trans. Polly Barton
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss some books with a perfect sense of humor!
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News
Netflix is planning to adapt Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series
50 Cent is publishing a financial heist novel, which is not a sentence I ever expected to write
The 2024 ITW Thriller Award finalists have been announced
Things Mentioned
Pango Books
Books Discussed
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone - Benjamin Stevenson
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto
Ghost Squad - Claribel A. Ortega
The Screaming Staircase - Jonathan Stroud
Cold to the Touch - Kerri Hakoda
A Better World - Sarah Langan
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss European mysteries and thrillers!
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THINGS MENTIONED
Trans Rights Readathon March 22 - 29, 2024
BOOKS DISCUSSED
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Perfectly Nice Neighbors - Kia Abdullah
Beneath the Mountain - Luca D’Andrea, translated from Italian Howard Curtis
The Jigsaw Man - Nadine Matheson
Quicksand - Malin Persson Giolito, transl. from Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles
The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo
The Mystery Writer - Sulari Gentil
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sounds like the wrong file :)
Alice and Kim? :)
I LOVE books that combine historical and fictional characters! How about a show featuring that?