Read or Dead
Read or Dead is a bi-weekly show dedicated to the worlds of mystery and thriller literature.
Episodes
July 11, 2025 • 41 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their most anticipated book for the second half of 2025.
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June 27, 2025 • 48 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend some of their favorite mystery and thriller audiobooks.
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June 13, 2025 • 44 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend mysteries and thrillers for Pride Month.
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May 30, 2025 • 51 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend summer reads!
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May 16, 2025 • 49 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend books from this year's Edgar Awards finalists!
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May 2, 2025 • 54 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester celebrate 200 hundred episodes of Read or Dead!
Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations! The professional book nerds (aka bibliologists) at TBR have recommended over 160,000 books to readers of all kinds. Let TBR match you with your next favorite read! Simply fill out a quick survey about what you want more of in your reading life, and your bibliologist will...
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April 18, 2025 • 47 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend genre-defying mysteries, thrillers, and horror novels!
Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations! The professional book nerds (aka bibliologists) at TBR have recommended over 160,000 books to readers of all kinds. Let TBR match you with your next favorite read! Simply fill out a quick survey about what you want more of in your reading life, and your ...
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April 4, 2025 • 45 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books from their never-ending backlist TBRs.
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Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations! The professional book nerds (aka bibliologists) at TBR have recommended over 160,000 books to readers of all...
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March 21, 2025 • 50 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend mysteries and thrillers for book clubs!
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Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations! The professional book nerds (aka bibliologists) at TBR have recommended over 160,000 books to readers of all ki...
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March 7, 2025 • 50 mins
Katie McLain Horner and honorary reading assassin Liberty Hardy talk about mysteries with feminist themes for Women's History Month.
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February 21, 2025 • 43 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend books set in the locations of their 2025 vacations!
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A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. To get recommendations for each task, sign up f...
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February 7, 2025 • 45 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend mysteries and thrillers for Black History Month!
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A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. To get recommendations for each task, sign up for ...
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January 24, 2025 • 44 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend mystery and thriller books to fulfill prompts for the 2025 Read Harder Challenge.
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A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. To get recommenda...
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January 10, 2025 • 36 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their most anticipated thriller and mystery books of 2025.
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A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. To get recommendations for each task, sign...
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December 27, 2024 • 49 mins
We are off this holiday week, so we're sharing this rerun from the top of the year to reflect back on the titles we were most looking forward to in the first half of 2024!
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December 13, 2024 • 49 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their favorite books from 2024!
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At Tailored Book Recommendations, we’ve recommended over 150,000 books to readers of every type. And we’ve got good news— TBR makes a novel gift for the book lover on your list! All your gift recip...
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November 29, 2024 • 42 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books for Indigenous Peoples' Month!
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November 15, 2024 • 51 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their 2024 holiday gift guide!
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November 1, 2024 • 43 mins
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books for a scary season send-off!
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Books Discussed
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The Empusium: A Health Reso...
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October 18, 2024 • 50 mins
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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