On this episode, Chloe Waryan, a librarian and horror fan, discusses how the job of a librarian affects the reading life, their favorite types of horror books, and the way that an audiobook can work really well for her. You’ll learn a bit more about the Chicago Public Library and we discuss the anticipation for the Booker Prize longlist, which came out after this was recorded. 

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Books mentioned in this episode: 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee 

They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar

Books Highlighted by Chloe:

Grey Dog by Elliot Gish

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

Build Your House Around my Body by Violet Kupersmith

The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty 

A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan 

Uzumaki by Junji Ito 

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino 

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids by Jamie Rix 

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz & Stephen Gammell 

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones 

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez 

Eynhallow by Tim McGregor 

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander 

The South Side by Natalie Y. Moore 

Reprieve by James Han Mattson

All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews 

Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar 

Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison