Episode 139 – Thrillers

This episode we’re talking about Thrillers! We discuss what makes a thriller thrilling, characters running around, helicopters, cozy thrillers, non-thrilling thrillers, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Red Eagles by David Downing
• The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura, translated by Lucy North
• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch 
• The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh
• While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
• The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
• Rabbits by Terry Miles
• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
• Books Meghan read and didn’t talk about
  • In the Company of Killers by Bryan Christy
  • Contagion by Robin Cook
  • Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards
  • Flowers of Darkness by Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Pandemic by Robin Cook
  • Vortex by Catherine Coulter

Other Media We Mentioned

• Michael Jackson – Thriller (YouTube)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
• Airframe by Michael Crichton
• Museum, vol. 1 by Ryosuke Tomoe
• The 13th Warrior by Michael Crichton (originally titled Eaters of the Dead)
  • The 13th Warrior (movie) (Wikipedia)
• Jack Reacher Series by Lee Child
• The Shining by Stephen King
• Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix and Will Errickson
• Night of the Crabs by Guy N. Smith
• Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Are Thrillers All the Same? | #BookBreak (YouTube)
• Episode 078 – Supernatural Thrillers
• Episode 065 – Political Thrillers
• Episode 033 – Legal Thrillers
• Episode 004 – Psychological Thrillers
• Writing 101: What Is the Thriller Genre? Definitions and Examples of Thriller in Literature
• Chekhov’s gun (Wikipedia)
• Crucibles
  • Matthew was mixing up The Crucible (the play about the Salem witch trials), with crucifixes and câlice (chalice) a Quebecois swear word
• Liberty Hardy at Book Riot
• Redshirt (stock character) (Wikipedia)
• Episode 134 – Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

20 Thriller Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) 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 Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani
• Her Name Is Knight by Yasmin Angoe
• When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
• Bone Black by Carol Rose GoldenEagle
• They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall
• The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
• IQ by Joe Ide
• My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
• No Going Back by Sheena Kamal
• Lightseekers by Femi Kayode
• The Plotters by Kim Un-su, translated by Sora Kim-Russell
• Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
• Out by Natsuo Kirino, translated by Stephen Snyder
• A Burning by Megha Majumdar
• The Hatak Witches by Devon Mihesuah
• Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
• The Hole by Pyun Hye-Young, translated by Sora Kim-Russell
• Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon
• The Secret Talker by Geling Yan

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 21st when we’ll be talking about our favourite books of 2021!

Then on Tuesday, January 4th we’ll be discussing the genre of Architecture!