The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast

S13:Ep266 - Spider To The Fly with Guest J.H. Markert + Notable Non-Fiction Book Recs

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You can find JH Markert at jamesmarkert.com or on IG at @jamesmarkert74

 

This week we chat with JH Markert who we spoke to pre-Covid in the before times when he was writing historical fiction. Over the last couple of years, he has changed gears and returned to the genre that first made him an avid reader: horror. JH has been cranking out horror novels and finding a great deal of success with them. We catch up with James and discuss his transition to horror and what that has been like after writing five previous historical fiction novels.  His most recent release that came out in September, Spider to the Fly, is dark horror suspense that deals with a serial killer, a true crime influencer, and a family with some bizarre dynamics. 

 

And for our book rec section, we are talking about notable nonfiction. These are nonfiction books we’ve read in the last year that have made us think differently about a topic or stood out for us in some way (even though these books might not have been published in the last year). We’ll talk about a micro-history, a biography, a true crime, a memoir, a study of morality and politics, and a niche book about cussing. 

 

Books Mentioned In This Episode:

 

1- Spider to the Fly by J.H. Markert 

2- Molokai by Alan Brennert

3- A White Wind Blew by James Markert

4- Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert 

5- Mr. Lullaby by J. H. Markert

6- Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert 

7- Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel by James Markert 

8- The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb

9- Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In the Midst of Wickedness by Janet and Geoff Benge 

10-The Vanishing Place by Zöe Rankin 

11- Five Star Read by a Fellow Book Lover Jasper Adams-Smith - Be Kind, My Neighbor by Yugo Limbo 

12- For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun by Rebecca Roache 

13- The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone 

14- The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss 

15- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt 

16- Playing to Lose: How a Jehovah's Witness Became a BDSM Model by Ariel Anderssen 

17- The Carpool Detectives: A True Story of Four Moms, Two Bodies, and One Mysterious Cold Case by Chuck Hogan 

18- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

 

Media Mentioned:

 

1- The Friend (2024)

2- Chief of War (Apple +, 2025)

3- The Outsider (HBO Max 2019)

4- Sinners (2025)

5- Nosferatu (2025)

 

A Perks Appearance on the Books With Betsy Podcast

Hey Book Lovers,

 

Carrie and I are on fall hiatus this week so we don't have a new episode for you.  But what we do have is your chance to check out a new-to-you book podcast, Books with Betsy, hosted by Betsy Tomsak.

This past summer we were guests to the show where we talked about all things in our book lives, maybe even tidbits we have never shared on our own show.  It's a fun conversation and we hope you will listen in and give Books With Betsy a follow.

We will be  back with an all new episode on October 29 when we chat with horror/ thriller writer J.H. Markert about his new release, Spider to the Fly, and give you book recommendations for notable non-fiction we've read recently.  

We hope you enjoy this episode of Books With Betsy.

Happy Reading!

 

S13:Ep265 - The Read Freely Project and Rediscovered Books with Guest Rebecca Leber-Gottberg + Ghostly Book Recs

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The American Library Association’s Banned Books Week is October 5-11, so we’re sharing an interview with one of the co-owners of Rediscovered Books in Boise, Idaho, a store that has pioneered a program in their city to push back against book banning in their state. Rebecca Leber-Gottberg talks to us about the history of the bookstore, her role there, and books that folks in Boise have been buying, but she also explains the bookstore’s Read Freely Project, which is their effort to get banned and threatened books dispersed throughout the community. 

 

And in our book rec section, we’re jumping into spooky season with books related to ghosts, but if you don’t like horror, don’t worry: a lot of these “ghostly” books aren’t horror, and some of them may only seem to be about ghosts. We’ve got a historical fiction about the Sri Lankan civil war, a detective story in which ghosts are witnesses, a nonfiction book about unexplained phenomena which may or may not involve ghosts, a funny novella, a supernatural suspense, and a ghostly gothic novel set in Mexico.

 

Books Discussed in this Episode:

1- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

2- The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve House, Four Patients' Lives by Theresa Brown

3- American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard

4- The Queen Bees of Tybee County by Kyle Casey Chu

5- The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

6- Trans History: A Graphic Novel by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett 

7- Lone Women by Victor LaValle 

8- Wild Tongues Can't be Tamed: 15 Voices from the LatinX Diaspora edited by Saraciea J. Fennell 

9- Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray 

10- Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson

11- House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 

12- On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 

13- The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

14- Firekeeper's Daughter by Angleine Boulley 

15- Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley 

16- Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley 

17- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 

18- Culpability by Bruce Holsinger 

19- Songs for Other People's Weddings by David Levitan 

20- A Five Star Read Recommended by Claire @bookishly_claire - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

21- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka 

22- The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

23- Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch 

24- Ghost Tamer by Meredith R. Lyons 

25- The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale 

26- The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

27- This is Going to Hurt by Adam McKay

 

Media Mentioned:

1- The Pitt (Max 2025)

2- ER ( 1994- 2009)

3- This is Going to Hurt (2022, Amazon Prime)

4- The Craft Lit Podcast - https://craftlit.com/

 

S13:Ep264 - A Boy From the North Country with Guest Sam Sussman + Dude Relationship Book Recs

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You can find Sam Sussman at www.samevansussman.org or on IG at @sam_sussman.

 

Our guest is debut novelist Sam Sussman whose book Boy From the North Country comes out this week. Sam originally wrote a short memoir piece for Harper’s Magazine that referred to the possibility that he might be Bob Dylan’s son but really the essay focused on his relationship with his mom, who had had a love affair with the musician. Eventually, Sam decided to explode the moment, or the series of moments of his life and with his mother, to get a better handle on who he was and how much that was about who his mom was and how she had raised him, not whether his father was Dylan.  The book is receiving high marks in early reviews, and Sam has been making the rounds in newspapers and magazines, including a profile by the New York Times. Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, The Library Journal, and the American Library Association have all given Boy From the North Country starred reviews. 

 

And for our book rec section of the show, we’re thinking about books that center on male relationships.  We realize that our guests and listeners are primarily female, but we thought we would equal the playing field a little by talking about books that deal with father-son relationships, male friendships or brotherly love.  We have a multigenerational story about the men in a Mexican-American family, a group of friends in a small town of the American Midwest, a pair of quirky Irish friends, a memoir about two very different guys at Harvard, two Greek heroes and their deep relationship, and boys from different cultures who develop a bond in unlikely circumstances. 

 

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

 

1- Boy From the North Country by Sam Sussman

2- The Celebrants by Steven Rowley

3- The Guncle by Steven Rowley

4- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 

5- Anima Rising by Christopher Moore 

6- The Last Mona Lisa by Jonathan Santlofer 

7- The Lost Van Gogh by Jonathan Santlofer

8-  A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Megan Burnett - The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish 

9- We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship by Will Schwalbe 

10- The Sons of El Rey by Alex Espinoza 

11- Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Bulter 

12- A Forty Year Kiss by Nickolas Butler 

13- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 

14- Circe by Madeline Miller 

15- Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh 

16- Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession

 

Media Mentioned - 

1- The Silent Type: On Possibly Being Bob Dylan's Son- https://harpers.org/archive/2021/05/the-silent-type-on-possibly-being-bob-dylans-son/

2- School Cell Phone Ban Increases Library Visits - https://www.wave3.com/2025/09/02/school-cell-phone-ban-creates-surge-jcps-library-visits/

3- Reading for Pleasure Declines - https://abcnews.go.com/Health/americans-spend-time-reading-fun-time-screens-study/story?id=124807367

4- The Four Seasons (Netflix 2025)

5- The Four Seasons (1981)

6- How the Passionate Male Friendship Died --https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/05/men-friendship-history/682815/

 

 

S13:Ep263 - Another Fine Mess with Guest Lindy Ryan + Carnival and Festival Book Recs - 9/3/25

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You can find Lindy Ryan at her website lindyryanwrites.com or on IG @lindyryanwrites.

 

For our guest this week, Lindy Ryan @lindyryanwrites, it's spooky season all year round. She grew up on a diet of #Goosebumps books and never got over her love of the dark and twisty. Now she writes her own horror stories and her BLESS YOUR HEART series will give you some thrills and chills with the Evans women. Four generations of them--great-grandmother Ducey all the way down to angsty teen Luna run a funeral home in their small Texas town. And they also have a little side project: protecting the town from the undead. Both BLESS YOUR HEART and ANOTHER FINE MESS, the second novel in the series, follow the Evans women who, with snark and heart, protect those they love from the proverbial "bloodbath."

And for our book recommendation section of the show, we’re thinking about carnivals, fairs, and festivals. Kentucky recently held its state fair, and with that in mind, we think you should make yourself a corndog or deep fry a Twinkie and get ready to add some books to your TBR lists. We’ve got a graphic novel for kids, a thriller from the 1940s, a mystery, historical fiction, a National Book Award finalist, and a memoir.

 

 

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan 

2- Another Fine Mess by Lindy Ryan

3- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

4- Howl edited by Lindy Ryan 

5- The Darkest Night edited by Lindy Ryan 

6- But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo

7- Play Nice by Rachel Harrison 

8- Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison

9- Cackle by Rachel Harrison 

10- Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 

11- Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck 

12- A 5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover @arizonabookstagrammer - Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

13- All's Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson 

14- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

15- Lewis Sinclair and the Gentleman Cowboys by DMS Fick 

16- The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler 

17- Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham 

18- The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts by Tessa Fontaine

 

Media Mentioned:

1- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Youtube)

2- Nosferatu (1922, Youtube)

3- Metropolis (1927, Youtube)

4- Nosferatu (2024)

5- The Thursday Murder Club (2025, Netflix)

6- Santa Clarita Diet (2017-2019, Netflix)

7- Chernobyl (2019, Max)

8- Nightmare Alley (2021)

9- Shelby County KY Library books taken - 

https://www.wlky.com/article/unreturned-library-book-dispute-shelby-county-reformation-church/65875001

10- Travels with Charley Fact Checking - 

https://www.steinbecknow.com/2020/08/01/travels-with-charley-painting-snapshot/

 

 

 

 

S13:Ep262 - The Fire Concerto with Guest Sarah Landenwich + Our Summer in Books

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You can find Sarah Landenwich on her website SarahLandenwich.com or on IG @sarahlandenwich

 

Our guest this week, novelist Sarah Landenwich, has turned her own experience as a talented pianist who lost her passion into a compelling, many-layered book about music, competition, history, and legacy. THE FIRE CONCERTO is about a woman named Clara who left a career as a classical pianist following a devastating fire that left her hands painfully scarred. She also left behind a tortured relationship with her former piano teacher. But when that instructor dies and leaves Clara a 19th century metronome, it sends her down a path of mystery about who the metronome belonged to and how that connects to Clara.

In our book recommendation segment of the show, we complete that old chestnut of a back to school assignment: the "What Did You Do This Summer?" essay. But we do it in the form of books. Carrie gives us some German authors she read while preparing for her family trip to Germany in June. And Amy highlights some books based on her Amsterdam and Wisconsin vacation spots, while also recommending a book by an author she saw at the Columbus Book Festival.

 

Books Mentioned in this Episode

1- A Home for Friendless Women by Kelly E. Hill 

2- The Fire Concerto by Sarah Landenwich 

3- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 

4- Possession by AS Byatt 

5- Plainsong (trilogy) by Kent Haruf

6- Old Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

7- The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich

8- How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self Care Epidemic One Dubious Cure at a Time by Amy LaRocca 

9- Say Everything by Ione Skye 

10- The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

11- A Five Star Read recommended by fellow Book Lover Cathleen @wovenfromwords - Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray 

12- Sleepless by Romy Hausmann

13- What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn Solomon 

14- The Murder Farm by Andrea Maria Schenkel 

15- A Death in Door County (Monster Hunter series) by Annelise Ryan 

16- Death in the Dark Woods (Monster Hunter series) by Annelise Ryan

17- Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug

18- The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb

 

Media Mentioned:

 

1- Speed Museum Glass Art exhibit - https://www.speedmuseum.org/the-adele-and-leonard-leight-glass-art-award-victoria-ahmadizadeh-melendez/

2- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

3- The Naked Gun (2025)

S13:Ep261 - Honey Blossom Press with Guest Keisha Mennefee + Dog Days Book Recs

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We have had great luck finding excellent books from small independent publishers, and so we periodically invite one on the show to tell us a little about how they operate. Our guest this week is Keisha Mennefee, a literary strategist who has worked with high profile Black artists like Jada Pinkett Smith and Kennedy Ryan.  She recently started her own publishing house called Honey Blossom Press. The mission of this press is to amplify underrepresented voices and powerful narratives that might otherwise go unheard. Some of their new titles include When Forty Blooms by Jacinta Howard and The Divorcetante by Mia Hentzelman. 

 

And since it is August, and we’re in the dog days of summer, our book rec section is focused on dogs. Amy especially loves a book where a dog features as a significant character who not only has personality but moves the plot along and helps create the theme. We’ve got some children’s lit, teen lit, Japanese narrative, literary fiction, memoir, and apocalyptic fiction. 

 

Books Mentioned In This Episode:

1- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

2- Mrs. Lincoln: A Life by Catherine Clinton 

3- The Survivors by Jane Harper 

4- Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton

5- Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon series #1) by Nevada Barr

6- When Forty Blooms by Jacinta Howard 

7- This Side of Beautiful by Tiye 

8- The Divorcetante by Mia Hentzelman

9- Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Triumph by Sheila Johnson

10- The House on the Strand by Daphne duMaurier 

11- Alive and Beating by Rebecca Wolf 

12- The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angline Boulley 

13- Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley 

14-  A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Katelyn @bookclubwithkatelyn - Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley 

15- Gather by Kenneth Cadow 

16- Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment 

17- The Body in Question by Jill Ciment 

18- Because of Winn Dixie by Kate diCamillo

19- Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People by Rick Bragg

20- The Boy and The Dog by Seishu Hase

21- A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World. by C.A. Fletcher

22- Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion

23- Go, Dog, Go by P.D. Eastman

24- Martha Speaks series by Susan Meddaugh

 

Media Mentioned

1- Cat Video Fest - https://www.catvideofest.com

2- The Survivors (Netflix, 2025)

3- Untamed (Netflix, 2025)

4- Because of Winn Dixie (Disney, 2005)

5- 5 Flights Up (2014)

6- Martha Speaks (Prime Video, 2008)

 

 

 

S13:Ep260 - I Think We've Been Here Before with Guest Suzy Krause + Diary Book Recs

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You can find Suzy Krause at her website suzykrause.com/ and on IG at @suzykrause

 

Usually, Christmas in July sales feature new cars or mattresses, but we are giving you a Christmas in July book episode. Our guest this week is Suzy Krause, a Canadian novelist whose book I Think We’ve Been Here Before is set in the few weeks leading up to the Christmas holiday in a small town in Saskatchewan.  This book is cozy but not in a way you would expect because something terrible is about to happen.  A cosmic event is going to end the world, and residents have several weeks to prepare.  But this apocalyptic story is hopeful and uplifting and makes you feel good.  How can you combine the end of the world with Christmas and make it comforting?  That’s what we asked Suzy because she has written a book that is nothing like I’ve ever read.  It’s like a little unexpected gift under the tree. 

 

For our book rec section of this episode, we are talking about diaries. And no, we’re not going to be reading from our diaries because that would be a snoozefest. We’ve selected both nonfiction and fictional diaries that allow us to get a sneak peek into a historic event or a situation that we don’t know much about. 

 

Books Mentioned In this Episode:

 

1- I Think We've Been Here Before by Suzy Krause

2- We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver 

3- A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold 

4- The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

5- Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin 

6- The Millicent Quibb Schook of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon

7- The Cicada Tree by Robert Gwaltney

8- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Lizzy Roth - Dead Water by C.A. Fletcher

9- The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

10- These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy Turner 

11- This is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay 

12- The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal by Lilly Koppel 

13- Here Comes the Fun: A Year of Making Merry by Ben Aitken 

14- The Lost Diaries of Édouard Manet by Maureen Gibbon 

 

Media Mentioned:

1- Adolescence (Netflix 2025)

2- We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011)

3- Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (Prime, 2012)

4- Ben Aitken Podcast episode - https://ThePerksofBeingaBookLover.podbean.com/e/s-7-ep-146-a-may-december-friendship-with-guest-ben-aitken-9722/

S13:Ep259 - A Fashionably French Murder with Guest Colleen Cambridge - 7/9/25

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You can find Colleen Gleason/Colleen Cambridge at her website www.colleengleason.com or on IG @colleengleason

 

Typically Amy has not been a cozy mystery reader, but this week’s guest, Colleen Gleason who also writes as Colleen Cambridge, may have single-handedly converted her.  She is the author of over 57 books in numerous series but her “American in Paris” series has been a delightful escape over the last year. It is a cozy mystery set in postwar 1950s Paris with a dynamic mystery-solving duo featuring none other than Julia Child. Book 3 in the series titled A Fashionably French Murder was published in April.  So we were thrilled when Colleen agreed to chat with us about this series as well as several of her other books.

 

Colleen’s style of writing often includes a pairing.  She has a mystery series that involves Agatha Christie and her housekeeper, another series featuring Abraham Lincoln and his aide, and even a steampunk paranormal YA series involving an imaginary crime-fighting pairing of Bram Stoker’s younger sister and Sherlock Holme’s niece. As we know from doing this podcast, having a partner-in-crime makes things much more fun. 

 

In our book rec section of the episode, we are all about gardens. We are not reviewing gardening books, however. Rather, we’re talking about books in which gardens, gardeners, flowers and shrubs are part of the story in some format. We’ve got thrillers, middle grade, fantasy, contemporary family drama, murder mysteries, and Appalachian gothic. 

 

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

 

1- A Fashionably French Murder (American in Paris series) by Colleen Cambridge

 

2- Food People by Adam M. Roberts

 

3- The World’s Greatest Detective and Her Just Ok Assistant by Liza Tully

 

4- Dept Q by Jussi Adler-Olsen

 

5- A Murder Most French (American in Paris series) by Colleen Cambridge

 

6- In the Spirit of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge

 

7- Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City by Jacques Yonnet

 

8- The Seven Rings (The Lost Bride Trilogy #3) by Nora Roberts

 

9- The Rosie Result (Don Tillman #3) by Graerme Simsion

 

10-The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

 

11-The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

 

12- Forged by Danielle Teller

 

13- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Betsy Tomszak @bookswithbetsy - Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda

 

14- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

 

15- The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister

 

16- June in the Garden by Eleanor Wilde

 

17- A Botanist’s Guide to Parties & Poisons by Kate Khavari

 

18- The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst

 

19- Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

 

20- The Summer of June by Jamie Sumner 

 

Media mentioned--

 

1- Hacks (Max, 2021 - present)

 

2- Dept Q (Netflix, 2025)

 

3- Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)

 

4- The New Look (Apple Plus - 2024)

 

S12:Ep258 - Summer Reading with Bookseller Sam Miller - 5/21/25

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This week we have Sam Miller, manager at Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville, with us to chat about books readers might want to consider for their summer reading. It is always fun to hear what is new and notable from Sam. 

 

This is our last episode of the season.  We will be back in July after our summer hiatus with all new episodes. Happy Reading!

 

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

 

1- The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebowitz

 

2- Northern Spy by Flynn Berry

 

3- Big Girl Small Town by Michelle Gallen

 

4- Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen

 

5- Cat's People by Tanya Guerrero

 

6- The View from Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani

 

7- Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani

 

8- Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

 

9- Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

 

10- So Far Gone by Jess Walter

 

11- A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle

 

12- A Lesser Light by Peter Geye

 

13- Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippmann

 

14- El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott

 

15- Big Bad Wool by Leonie Swann

 

16- Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann

 

17- First Gentleman by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

 

18- King of Ashes by SA Cosby

 

19- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab

 

20- Katabasis by RF Kuang

 

21- Country Under Heaven by Frederic Durbin

 

22- A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

 

23- Isabella Nag and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire

 

24- The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar

 

25- Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs

 

26- Plato and the Tyrant by James Romm

 

27- Turning to Birds by Lili Taylor

 

28- Is A River Alive? by Robert McFarlane

 

29- Mark Twain by Ron Chernow

 

30- Charlottesville by Deborah Baker

 

31- Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser

 

32- Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser

 

33- Fulfillment by Lee Cole

 

34- If You Love It, Let it Kill You by Hannah Pittard

 

35- The Fire Concerto by Sarah Landenwich

 

36- Black Cohosh by Eagle Valiant Brosi

 

37- Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

 

38- I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems by Sarah Ruden

 

39- Red Comet by Heather Clark

 

40- Bad Badger : A Love Story by Maryrose Wood

 

Media mentioned--

 

1- Derry Girls (Netflix, 2018-2022)

 

2- Christoph Waltz on Jimmy Fallon --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0jr-HQeT74

 

3- Floyd Collins Broadway show--https://floydcollinsbroadway.com