This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear, The Heart Goes Last, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, more new releases, and some spooky favorites.

This episode was sponsored by Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession by Elizabeth Benedict and Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park

Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear by Margee Kerr

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

I Remember You: A Ghost Story by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due

The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle

What we’re reading:

The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir Of Place, Solitude, and Friendship by Katherine Towler

Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing by Sandra M. Gilbert and Roger J. Porter

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