His Book, Her Book

Send us Fan Mail Monsters don’t need claws when they have plausible motives and a world that quietly rewards cruelty. We’re German and Jacqui, and we’re picking four books built around one unnerving idea: the human is the monster. If you love horror books, psychological thrillers, and dark literary fiction that stares straight at violence, shame, obsession, and power, this conversation is for you....

Send us Fan Mail Isolation is a setting, a mood, and sometimes a weapon, and we love how it turns a good story into something you feel in your chest. We’re sharing our isolation-themed reads and getting specific about what makes these books work: claustrophobic spaces, emotional detachment, grief that pulls people inward, and the kind of uncertainty that refuses to give you neat answers. We start...

Send us Fan Mail One great book can be an accident. Two great books by the same author feels like proof. We’re German and Jacqui, and we’re comparing authors who earned our trust the hard way by delivering more than one read we genuinely loved, then pulling us deeper into their catalog. We start with our personal reading habits: when a book blows us away, do we sprint to the author’s backlist, or...

Send us Fan Mail Summer reading should feel like momentum you can’t shake. We’re German and Jacqui, and we’re bringing a stack of beach reads that are bingeable, a little unhinged, and surprisingly thoughtful, even when they’re dark. If your ideal vacation book is short chapters, high stakes, and characters making questionable choices, you’re in the right place.  We start with what “summer reads”...

Send us Fan Mail What makes historical fiction stick isn’t the costumes or the dates. It’s the moment you realize the past isn’t past at all, it’s a mirror. We bring four historical fiction book recommendations that hit that nerve in totally different ways, from eerie hope to full-body dread, and we talk honestly about who each pick is for (and who should check trigger warnings first). German star...

Send us Fan Mail A haunted house is scary because it breaks the one rule we all rely on: home should feel safe. Time travel is scary for the opposite reason because it tempts us with the one thing we can’t actually have, a redo. We put those two beloved tropes head-to-head and share the books that, for us, do them best, from slow-burn dread to twisty reverse-timeline suspense.<br><br>O...

Send us Fan Mail Your reading year tells on you, the genres you chase, the themes you can’t quit, and the books you secretly wish you hadn’t finished. We’re German and Jacqui, and we’re breaking down our 2025 reading highlights with two very different totals (19 books versus 93), plus the unglamorous truth behind ratings, rereads, and regret. We start by defining our star rating system in a way yo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to his book her book, the conversational podcast where a horror obsessed husband and his genre hopping wife try to understand each other’s reading choices, clash tastes and stay happily married through it all.  Together we’ll dive into stories from opposite ends of the bookshelf, laughing, debating, recommending and occasionally roasting each other’s picks.  Because in thi...