Episode 53 - Horror for Anxious Readers with Johanna @memydogandbooks

On this episode, Johannah @memydogandbooks who loves to shout about books on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, and I discuss leaning into cozy hobbies, reading widely and eclectically, and an overlapping prize interest for us. We also discuss how horror is an underrated genre and why it works, even for scaredy-cats!

 

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Book Talk and Signing for The Kat Bunglar with Tanima Kazi 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, & Girlboss by Kim Hong Nguyen

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich 

 

Books Highlighted by Johanna:

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due 

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez 

Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero

Duck Feet by Ely Percy

On the Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart 

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, trans. Sarah Moses

Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 

 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Never Flinch by Stephen King 

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

Betty by Tiffany McDaniel 

The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, trans. Sarah Moses 

Cackle by Rachel Harrison 

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager 

The Return by Rachel Harrison

So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison 

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis 

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 

A Thousand Threads by Neneh Cherry 

I’m Glad my Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 

The Between by Tananarive Due

The Secret History by Donna Tartt 

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart 

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams