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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 scour their bookish knowledge to find three reads they think you’ll love. Choose from receiving just the recommendations via email, or opt to have paperbacks or hardcovers delivered right to your door. Get started for only $18! Mystery author Peter Lovesey has died at 88. Kerry Greenwood, author of the Phryne [FRY-nee] Fisher mystery series, has died at 70. 1849 titles 835 unique authors 1147 unique titles 40.1% authors of color TOP Author mentions: Sujata Massey - 28 Tana French - 26 Riley Sager - 24 Alma Katsu - 20 Attica Locke, Jane Harper, SA Cosby - 17 Stephen King - 16 Angie Kim - 14 Stephen Graham Jones - 12 Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Jesse Q. Sutanto - 11 Oyinkan Braithwaite, Alyssa Cole, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Wanda M. Morris, Ovidia Yu - 10 This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Top Title Mentions: The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey - 13 My Sister the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite - 10 Miracle Creek - Angie Kim - 9 When No One is Watching - Alyssa Cole - 8 Beneath the Mountain - Luca D’Andrea - 8 American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land - Monica Hesse - 7 Final Girls - Riley Sager - 7 The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century - Kirk Wallace Johnson - 7 The Frangipani Tree Mystery - Ovidia Yu - 7 The Jigsaw Man - Nadine Matheson - 7 The Satapur Moonstone - Sujata Massey 7 The Witch Elm - Tana French - 7 Theme Music - T. Marie Vandelly - 7 Winter Counts - David Heska Wanbli Weiden - 7 If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com. Otherwise you can: Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady Find Kendra on Instagram and BlueSky @kdwinchester and on TikTok @kendrawinchester And we will talk to you all next time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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