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All the (More!) Books! September 19, 2025

All the Books!

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🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This week, Sharifah talks about a couple haunted house books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Books Discussed: The Good House by Tananarive Due The Spite House by Johnny Compton The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're listening to All the More Books. I'm Sharifa. Today is September 11th, 2025. And today,

0:18.0

in the spirit of being impatient for the fall season, I wanted to talk about two haunted house books.

0:27.0

And these are pretty straightforward as far as haunted house books go.

0:33.3

So if you like, for instance, the haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, this is that sort of story where it's like, this house truly is haunted.

0:45.8

And both of these books are also by Bipak authors and they're fairly backlist.

0:53.4

One of them is pretty old now, which is weird to say

0:57.1

because it doesn't feel that old to me. And the other one is a more recent backlist book.

1:03.9

So let's get into the spirit of fall and start thinking about Halloween and all things hauntings, but first I wanted to tell you

1:13.3

about TBR. Our good friend TBR. And TBR, in case you don't know, is tailored book recommendations.

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This is our service to help you find your next favorite read. We have handpicked

1:30.0

suggestions coming from professional book nerds. And this is perfect for a cozy, bookish autumn

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season where maybe you don't know what to read, but you want some recommendations. Like, you could

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literally ask, can you recommend me some excellent reads that are perfect for autumn

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and for my particular tastes?

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So you can choose between receiving just the recommendations by email.

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You can also get a new hardcover or paperback books delivered right to your door.

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Treat yourself or the book lover in your life to a great read and get started today from just $18.

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So you can head to mytbr.co and subscribe to tBR today. That's mytbr.com. All right, before we get into

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these haunted house books, let's hear from a sponsor. This episode is sponsored by 26th Street

2:31.9

Books, publishers of convergence by Greg Owen and Jonathan

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Dixon. Stick around after the show to hear an excerpt from the audiobook edition.

2:40.0

Chicago, March 1976. A young, privileged man kills two of his friends. Four days later, he's in

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