Recommendations from our reading wheelhouses

Aug 12, 2021

The Nerds are back! Enjoy this dive into some of the aspects of their respective reading wheelhouses including a nice set of the boarding school murder mystery genre Jill as introduced so many of you to!

Books mentioned in this episode

Small stories with big emotions

The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin

This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

Autumn Stories

The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel by Alyssa Palombo

Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody

Magical Realism

The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

Small Town Horror

Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis

Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare

Jill books

The Ivies by Alexa Donne

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

Long Black Veil by Jennifer Finney Boylan

Dare me by Megan Abbott

The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

The blogs where Jill mentions even more

First blog

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