On this episode, Chloe Waryan, a librarian and horror fan, discusses how the job of a librarian affects the reading life, their favorite types of horror books, and the way that an audiobook can work really well for her. You’ll learn a bit more about the Chicago Public Library and we discuss the anticipation for the Booker Prize longlist, which came out after this was recorded.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee
They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar
Books Highlighted by Chloe:
Grey Dog by Elliot Gish
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Build Your House Around my Body by Violet Kupersmith
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan
Uzumaki by Junji Ito
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids by Jamie Rix
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz & Stephen Gammell
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
Eynhallow by Tim McGregor
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The South Side by Natalie Y. Moore
Reprieve by James Han Mattson
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
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