Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their favorite books from 2024!
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Things Mentioned
Goodreads Choice Awards: Mystery / ThrillerÂ
Crime Reads Best Books
Washington Post’s Best Mystery Novels
Washington Post’s Best ThrillersÂ
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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Mysteries and Thrillers for Indigenous Peoples' Month
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books for Indigenous Peoples' Month!
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Keep up to date with the world of books and reading with Today in Books, Book Riot's daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Our editors offer commentary, context, and the occasional clap-back to keep you informed and entertained. Visit bookriot.com/todayinbooks to subscribe for free, or become an All Access member starting at $6 per month or $60 per year and get unlimited access to members-only content in 20+ newsletters, community features, and the warm fuzzies knowing you are supporting independent media.
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Books DiscussedÂ
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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Holiday Gift Guide 2024
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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Scary Season Send Off!
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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The New York Times's Best Books of the 21st Century
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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And if you sign up or gift TBR in the month of October, you’ll be automatically entered to win a pair of Beats Fit Pro headphones! Current TBR subscribers also have a chance to win by purchasing a drop-in round of recommendations in October. Sign up today at mytbr.co
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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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Otherwise you can:
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