The Laydown Podcast

Bonus Episode!
Ryan got to chat with bestselling author Lisa Scottoline about her latest novel, What Happened to the Bennetts!

Lisa Scottoline

What Happened to the Bennetts

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Other Books Mentioned During This Episode
The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini (audiobook)

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Madeline joins Ryan and Jo this month to talk about the ways that books let you travel without having to go anywhere! From travel memoirs to road trips in fiction to magical fantasy worlds to creating real life trips visiting literary locations (2025 Gibson's World Tour, anyone?), your hosts have a ton of recommendations for using books as a means to escape.

Books Mentioned During This Episode

Ryan, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/ryan-elizabeth-clark

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Rosebud by Paul Cornell 

Spear by Nicola Griffith 

These Prisoning Hills by Christopher Rowe

A Mirror Mended by Alix E Harrow

• A Spindle Splintered

Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert

Neon Gods 

From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper

• Payback’s a Witch

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

Malice by Heather Walter

Road of Bones by Christopher Golden

Such A Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester

Ghoul n’ the Cape by Josh Malerman (Limited)

Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow 

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Comeuppance Served Cold by Marion Deeds

Jo, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/jo

Devil House by John Darnielle

• Wolf in White Van

All These Bodies by Kendare Blake

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Beowulf by Seamus Heaney

Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

Medea by Euripides

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand 

• The Anthony Burgess Translation (Backordered, hard to get)

Madeline, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/madeline

Maus by Art Spiegelman

On Writing by Stephen King

The Age of Anxiety by Pete Townshend

Medea by Euripides

Educated by Tara Westover

Rabbits by Terry Miles

Walking to Listen by Andrew Forsthoefel

Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon

Girl on a Motorcycle by Amy Novesky

Haunted Hikes of New Hampshire by Marianne O’Connor

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

The Nepal Chronicles by Dan Szczesny

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

The Everlasting by Katy Simpson Smith

Milkman by Anna Burns

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink

Goblin by Josh Malerman

It by Stephen King

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin

Paper Towns by John Green

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Jack of All Graves Book Club

The Storygraph

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Bonus Episode!
Ryan sat down remotely with Bethany C. Morrow to talk about her deliciously chilling new Social Horror novel, Cherish Farrah!

Bethany C. Morrow

Cherish Farrah

Other Books by Bethany C. Morrow

Mem 

A Song Below Water 

A Chorus Rises 

So Many Beginnings 

Take the Mic 

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Other Books Mentioned During This Episode

Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith

This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston

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Happy New Year! Ryan and Jo are joined by Michael, the owner of Gibson's, to chat about their favorite books of 2021. Come for the book recommendations, stay for the tangents!

Books Mentioned During This Episode

Ryan, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/ryan-elizabeth-clark

Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow (audiobook)

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

• Moon Witch, Spider King

Electric Idol (Dark Olympus #2) by Katee Robert

Wicked Beauty (Dark Olympus #3)

Neon Gods (Dark Olympus #1)

My Sister the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite 

• Join the Jack of All Graves Book Club! 

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner 

Something to Hide by Elizabeth George 

Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds, Jason Griffin

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin

The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

Jo, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/jo

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel

• Wolf Hall

Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

• Shuggie Bain

Michael, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/michael-herrmann

City on Fire by Don Winslow

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub 

Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

• Priestdaddy 

Animal by Lisa Taddeo

• Three Women

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Our Favorite Books of 2021!
https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/staff-favorites-2021

The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Matrix by Lauren Groff

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske 

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson

• Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

• Say Nothing

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

Goblin by Josh Malerman

Pearl 

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Bonus Episode!
Ryan got to chat with bestselling author Lisa Gardner about her latest mystery thriller, One Step Too Far!

Lisa Gardner

One Step Too Far

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Other Books Mentioned During This Episode
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby (audiobook)

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Bonus Episode!
Ryan got to chat with NYT Bestselling Author Elizabeth George about her latest mystery in the Lynley series, Something to Hide!

Elizabeth George
Elizabeth George Foundation

Something to Hide (audiobook)

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Other Books Mentioned During This Episode
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (audiobook)

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Bonus Episode!
Ryan got to chat with the fantastic Kerri Maher about her new historical fiction novel, The Paris Bookseller!

Kerri Maher

The Paris Bookseller (audiobook)

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Other Books Mentioned During This Episode

Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach

Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation by Noel Riley Fitch 

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (audiobook)

Ulysses by James Joyce (audiobook)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (audiobook)

The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn (audiobook)

The Guncle by Steven Rowley (audiobook)

The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray (audiobook)

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner (audiobook)

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Hillary is retiring, so join us as we reminisce and chat for her final episode! She passes the Book Club mantle to Jo, and we also talk about what we've been reading recently and go on several tangents, and it's a great time. Enjoy!

Books Mentioned During This Episode

Ryan, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/ryan-elizabeth-clark

The Broken Tower by Kelly Braffet (audiobook)

The Unwilling (audiobook)

The Push by Ashley Audrain (audiobook)

Darling Girl by Liz Michalski (audiobook)

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward (audiobook)

Sundial (audiobook)

The Every by Dave Eggers (audiobook)

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (audiobook)

Jo, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/jo

Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz (audiobook)

The White Album by Joan Didion 

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall (audiobook)

Husband Material 

Something Fabulous 

Devolution by Max Brooks (audiobook)

World War Z (audiobook)

Hillary, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/hillary

The Gilded Page by Mary Wellesley

Twelve Caesars by Mary Beard (audiobook)

The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam (audiobook)

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (audiobook)

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (audiobook)

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (audiobook)

Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom (audiobook)

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Bonus Episode! Ryan got to chat with the delightful Genevieve Gornichec about her debut novel, The Witch's Heart!

Genevieve Gornichec
The Witch's Heart

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Other Books Mentioned During This Episode
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Prose Edda
The Poetic Edda
Circe by Madeline Miller
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

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Bonus Episode! You may know him as Schmidt from New Girl, but in this interview, Max Greenfield is chatting with Ryan all about his new picture book, I Don't Want to Read This Book, which is available now!

I Don't Want to Read This Book

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Other Books Mentioned During this Episode
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (audiobook)

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