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5 Eerie Audiobooks to Listen to During the Halloween Season
As the days grow shorter and the nights get darker, there's nothing like getting swept up in a story that sends shivers down your spine. In honor of spooky season, Spotify's audiobooks editors have conjured up a selection of bone-chilling reads. Whether you're drawn to haunted history, supernatural fiction, cozy mysteries, or witchy romances, the top picks offer a spooky listen for every kind of fan.
What Hunger
. Aug. 2025. 288p. ISBN 9781668065570. $27.99. FICTION COPY ISBN Dang’s ( Nice Girls) second novel follows 14-year-old Veronica “Ronny” Nguyen, who has experienced much more than any teenager should have to. Standing out as a Vietnamese American living in Missouri with her nuclear family, the happy-go-lucky Ronny starts off her high school years with a double punch of sudden and tragic family loss, plus the horrifying experience of sexual violence.
WHAT HUNGER | Kirkus Reviews
A tender and moving portrait about the transcendent power of art and friendship. An artwork’s value grows if you understand the stories of the people who inspired it. Never in her wildest dreams would foster kid Louisa dream of meeting C. Jat, the famous painter of The One of the Sea, which depicts a group of young teens on a pier on a hot summer’s day.
Summary and Reviews of What Hunger by Catherine Dang
CHAPTER 1 Tommy had called it "The Big Summer." He never said things like that—things that were corny, optimistic, easy to disprove. They seemed juvenile. In my eyes, he was older than his years. His mind worked so quickly that it aged faster than the rest of him. But Tommy could sense something coming. "It's almost like you're on a roller coaster, climbing up toward something big at the top, you know?" he murmured one night. I turned to look at him on the other side of the room.
5 new must-reads
An old literary friend — Sherlock Holmes — is back this month. Perhaps you’d like him to join you in an air-conditioned setting? Holmes returns to solving cases in Nicholas Meyer’s “Sherlock Holmes and the Real Thing,” the latest in his series of supposedly newly discovered adventures of the great detective. But if you’re looking for something a little less sunny to balance the blazing days, how about a novel about a possible cannibal?
5 new must-reads
BOOKS An old literary friend — Sherlock Holmes — is back this month. Perhaps you'd like him to join you in an air-conditioned setting? Holmes returns to solving cases in Nicholas Meyer's "Sherlock Holmes and the Real Thing," the latest in his series of supposedly newly discovered adventures of the great detective. But if you're looking for something a little less sunny to balance the blazing days, how about a novel about a possible cannibal?
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Berman (The Comeback) evokes Eve Babitz, Joan Didion, and the glamour of the 1960s California literary scene in this exciting tale of a friendship and its dissolution. Magazine writer Lane Warren, who brings to mind Didion, moves from New York City to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s to work on her first novel. At a party, she meets the Babitz-like Gala Margolis, an aspiring writer who leads a free-spirited and sexually promiscuous life in Laurel Canyon.
Into the Sun by C F Ramuz
In this vivid and prescient 1922 novel from Swiss author Ramuz (Great Fear on the Mountain), rapid climate change brings about societal breakdown. The days seem like they will last forever during one particularly hot August. Then news arrives that Earth is on a collision course with the sun. Thermostats strain in once bucolic countries where it soon becomes too hot to sleep, heavy traffic makes escape from the cities impossible, and bathers get burned beyond recognition.
When the Music Hits
Bloomsbury editor Oliver cues up The Devil Wears Prada for the music industry in her incisive debut. South Bronx native Billie Grand, 24, dreams of a job in A&R, spotting talent and using her position to lift up the voices of other Black people. When she finally lands a coveted assistant position at Lit Music Productions in Manhattan, it’s far from what she’d imagined.
Atmosphere
Reid’s transportive latest (after Carrie Soto Is Back) revolves around a forbidden love between two female astronauts in the 1980s. In 1984, a botched satellite deployment by the Navigator space shuttle kills several members of the crew. As the disaster unfolds, capsule communicator Joan Goodwin desperately tries to advise surviving engineer Vanessa Ford from Houston’s Johnson Space Center.
Sandwich
Catherine Newman. Harper, $26.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-334516-4 Newman (We All Want Impossible Things) returns with a slight story about the pleasures of beach time and the trials of middle age. Rocky, an anxious and volatile writer in her 50s, spends a week at her family’s aging Cape Cod vacation cottage with her preternaturally patient and easygoing husband, Nick; their two grown children, Jamie and Willa; and her sweet parents. Much of the novel, which Rocky narrates, has a light, comic tone.
Crime Fiction To Tug on Your Heart Strings
Crime Fiction To Tug on Your Heart Strings Crime fiction is one of those genres you wouldn’t expect to get “all the feels” while reading, but when it happens it really makes the story even more enjoyable.
Favorite Debut Thrillers by Female Authors
Favorite Debut Thrillers by Female Authors Reading a debut novel by a new author is like meeting a new friend for the first time and realizing you want to be besties for eternity. There’s something about a new story from a fresh voice and a writing style that you haven’t already been introduced to that can be so intoxicating. Here are some of my favorite debut novels from the best female voices in the thriller genre.
The Eeriness of Minnesota Nice
My home state of Minnesota is known for three things: its 10,000 lakes, its brutal winters, and its polite, yet reserved behavior from residents. For the uninitiated, this behavior is known as “Minnesota Nice.” We love being courteous, but we also desperately crave our space. For example, one Minnesotan might help their neighbor jump-start their car in the winter (that’s polite!). Then the two of them never speak again (that’s space).
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