Creeps, chills, and carefully crafted dread - join Joseph and Amanda for this week’s episode as they recommend a stack of mood-heavy reads for spooky season. Plus, Team CR talks László Krasznahorkai - this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - and as always they discuss what they’ve been reading lately and what they’re looking forward to picking up next. 

(0:44 ) Book News

(0:51 ) Nobel Prize for Literature 

(1:46 ) Louisiana Channel

(2:52 ) Sátántangó by Lászlo Krasznahorkai

(5:41 ) Rivals by Jilly Cooper

(7:00 ) Current Reads

(7:04 ) Objects of Desire by Neil Blackmore

(10:43 ) Fair Play by Louise Hegarty 

(13:48 )  Spooky Season Reading

(15:06 )  Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

(17:55 ) Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfeld

(19:01 ) The Echoes by Evie Wyld

(19:28 ) Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

(19:51 ) Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

(20:27 ) Our Share of the Night by Mariana Enriquez 

(21:36 ) Pet Sematary by Stephen King

(22:55 ) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

(24:04 ) Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn

(25:04 ) The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston

(27:22 ) Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

(27:36 ) Beloved by Toni Morrison

(28:25 )  Ghost stories by MR James, Algernon Blackwood, Edgar Allen Poe and HP Lovecraft

(29:44 ) Come Closer by Sara Gran (Joseph’s Pick #1)

(34:23 ) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (Amanda’s Pick #1)

(39:04 ) The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila, tr. by Audrey Harris and Matthew Gleeson (Joseph Pick #2)

(44:21 ) Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll (Amanda’s Pick #2)

(46:24 ) Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

(49:32 ) Spooky Books Recommended to Amanda

(49:44 ) Sinead Hanna @sineadhannacraic

(50:14 )  The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

(50:29 ) Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker 

(51:06 ) Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

(51:42 ) Spooky Books Recommended to Joseph

(51:52 ) A Game In Yellow by Hailey Piper

(52:42 ) Ashley @coffeeandcuentos

(52:59 ) Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, ed. Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

(52:32 ) Talking Scared Podcast with Neil McRobert

(53:47 ) Rekt by Alex Gonzalez

(54:33 ) What We’re Reading Next 

(55:03 ) Greyhound by Joanna Pocock

(55:41 ) Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett

(55:57 ) What A Time To Be Alive by Jenny Mustard

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