Show Notes
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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