Episode 186 - Suspense Fiction

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re discussing the fiction genre of Suspense! We talk about crime, mysteries, horror, and even suspense!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Ascension by Nicholas Binge
• The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 edited by Lisa Unger and Steph Cha
• Malice by Keigo Higashino
• Dead Woman Walking by Sharon J. Bolton
• Alice in Borderland by Haro Aso (Wikipedia)
• Night Fever by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
• Reckless by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
• A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson

Read But Not Mentioned

• Find Me by Anne Fraser
• Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
• The Midnight Line: Jack Reacher #22 by Lee Child
• The Phantom Scientist by Robin Cousin, translated by Edward Gauvin
• Wyrd, vol. 1 by Curt Pires and Antonio Fuso
• Colorless, vol 1 by Kent
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry by Mary Higgins Clark

Other Media We Mentioned

• Scalped by Jason Aaron, R.M. Guera, and others
• Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
• At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft (Wikipedia)
• Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman
• Small Game by Blair Braverman

Links, Articles, and Things

• Hark! Podcast
• Category:Fiction about death games (Wikipedia)
  • What Matthew described as “escape room fiction”
• Final girl (Wikipedia)

20 Suspense Novels by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
• Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose
• A Person of Interest by Susan Choi
• When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
• Sleeping with Strangers by Eric Jerome Dickey
• The Between by Tananarive Due
• Shutter by Ramona Emerson
• The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
• We Lie Here by Rachel Howzell Hall
• The Mantis by Kotaro Isaka
• My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa
• The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok
• Are You Sara? by S.C. Lalli
• Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow
• The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley
• Ride or Die by Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu
• Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts
• Sinister Graves by Marcie R. Rendon
• There Should Have Been Eight by Nalini Singh
• In the Dark We Forget by Sandra S.G. Wong

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 19th it’s time for our Favourite Reads of 2023!

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