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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and guest host Rincey Abraham from Read or Dead discuss thrillers written by women of color, business books for new employees, and what to read if you’re giving up on Cormoran Strike. This episode is sponsored by Read or Dead, Book Riot’s mystery/thriller podcast, This is My America by Kim Johnson, and Lobizona by Romina Garber. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed No Hard Feelings by Liz Fosslien and Molly West Duffy The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo Autumn by Ali Smith The Dutch House by Ann Patchett The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson All Systems Red by Martha Wells The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Miracle Creek by Angie Kim Cutting Season by Attica Locke A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh Fatal Affair by Marie Force Betty Rhyzyk series by Kathleen Kent (Book One, The Dime) Tana French! (In the Woods is the first book) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:44.4

This is episode 244 and we are recording on August 10th.

0:47.4

I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Rincey Abraham and we are coming to you from Book Riot.

0:51.4

Hello.

0:52.6

Hi, Amanda.

0:53.8

How are you? I mean, we were just talking

0:57.5

about the tornado warnings that were happening in Rincey's neighborhood. Yeah, it's so, you know,

1:03.0

usual 2020 stuff. Right? Oh, such a mood. So for those of you who don't know, Rincey is one of the co-hosts of Red or Dead, which is our mystery thriller podcast, which I think has got a pre-roll to this show.

1:18.2

So you probably just heard me talking about it, or Jen, because I don't remember who reads the ads for this week.

1:22.9

And so Rincey, could you tell them, like, just a little bit about what your show is like and what y'all talk about?

1:29.0

Yes.

1:29.7

So I co-host with Katie McLean Horner.

1:32.7

And it's a podcast all about mysteries and thrillers and all of these sort of related books and topics.

1:39.7

We usually have like a theme or a topic for every week.

1:42.7

So Katie and I'll pick a book based on those

1:45.1

themes. We recently did one based on locked room mysteries because one of our listeners had a

1:50.7

suggestion of being like, hey, since none of us can leave our homes or shouldn't be leaving

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