This week, Gare and I chose our own sub-genres to give recommendations for!

I chose "Mind Benders" and Gare chose "Missing Persons/Cold Cases" so if you are looking for books in either of those genres, we've got you covered!

Kate's Books

Recursion

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

The Mechanics of Memory

The New One

Stay Awake

Gare's Books

The Lost House

A Flicker in the Dark

The Man on the Train

Leave the Girls Behind

All Good People Here

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This week, Tyler joins me to discuss the many movies we saw in 2024 thanks to our AMC membership.

Movies We Talked About

Anyone But You

American Fiction

Argylle

Dune

Dune 2

Civil War

Monkey Man

Challengers

The Fall Guy

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Inside Out 2

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

The Bikeriders

Maxxxine

Longlegs

Twisters

A Quite Place: Day One

Deadpool & Wolverine

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This week, we catch up on how our holidays went, talk about words/phrases of the year for 2025, and share ore backlist thrillers we want to read!

Books We Talked About

Hostage

Take it Back

What January Remembers

We Spread

Such a Pretty Smile

The Truth About Melody Browne

Out

Summer Rental

Such Sharp Teeth

The House on Needless Street

Thin Air

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

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There isn't an author interview this Tuesday, so I did a year in review solo episode! I dive into everything that happened with Bookwild in 2024, including merging Between the Lines and Killing the Tea into Bookwild, the co-hosts that joined this year, bookish friendships created, repeat author guests, writing progress, Imposter Hour and Bookwild's Backlist Book Club!

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This week, Halley, Gare and I catch up and also share 2025 book releases we are super excited about!

Books We Talked About

This Book Will Bury Me

Beautiful Ugly

Cross My Heart

Don’t Let Him In

A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage

Victorian Psycho

High Season

A Gorgeous Excitement

Vantage Point

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This week, Gare, Steph and each chose a hyped book and share three books like it that deserve more hype!

Kate's Books Like The Guest List (And White Lotus)

The Astrology House

You Can Trust Me

It Could Be Anyone

Steph's Books Like The Push

The First Day of Spring

Blood Sugar

Monday’s Not Coming

Gare's Books Like The Luckiest Girl Alive

Everything You Want Me to Be

Nice Girls

White Ivy

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This week, Gare, Steph and I chose our own genres to pick books from, and tried to guess what each other picked based on our choices! Listen and you can play along with us!

Kate’s Picks

The Prediction

Fatal Intrusion

Dead Money

Steph's Picks

A Step Past Darkness

Jane Doe

The Mindfuck Series

Gare's Picks

The Girls Are All So Nice Here

Tell Me Everything

Only If You’re Lucky

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This week, I talk with Sagit Schwartz about her new short story thriller Broken Threads! We dive into the inspiration for the story, the fun of writing short stories, and the Easter egg for her next novel.

Broken Threads Synopsis

When Clare loses her job as a technical writer at a pharmaceutical company due to AI, she has one month’s rent saved and a historical fiction novel she’s been unable to get published. Desperate, she turns to Amber, a young influencer in her apartment building, for help promoting the book.

Amber offers Clare a shocking deal: fifty percent of the profits—if Clare allows her to claim the novel as her own. Running out of money and options, Claire hesitantly agrees.

Then, the unimaginable happens. The book is an instant runaway hit—a viral phenomenon, skyrocketing to the top of multiple bestseller lists. Literary agents reach out to Amber, eager to sign her, and Clare begins to suspect Amber is cheating her out of money. Until Amber is found dead…

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