Sisters Are Reading

⭐⭐ /  💀💀 Lindsay and Barbara dig into Gemma Amor's chilling novella about a girl and her murderous pedophile penpal. Featuring: Bad moods, extracted molars, and the podcast Buried Bones.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀 READ THIS BOOK. Lindsay & Barbara recap M. R. Carey's postapocalyptic child zombie mushroom hellscape. Featuring: Paranormal Activity on Broadway, mad scientists, and a killer ending.

⭐⭐⭐ /  💀💀 Lindsay and Barbara talk through Joe HIll's latest novel—about six friends who make a deal with an ancient monster and struggle to survive the consequences. Featuring: Bridge trolls and internet trolls, whimsical mythology, and hope.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀 Barbara tells Lindsay about Annie Jacobsen's super scary FACT-BASED scenario in which a genetically modified plague bacteria goes rogue and ends civilization. Featuring: Are zombies real? Plague in Interview With the Vampire . And marmots in hibernation.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀 Lindsay & Barbara discuss Hildur Knútsdóttir's deliciously short tale of a woman whose body gets up to some supernatural mischief when she's asleep. Featuring: Butchering Icelandic names, surprise sister magic, and recommending The Pitt.

⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀 WE'RE BACK! Again! Lindsay & Barbara, your favorite scaredy-cat sisters, recap Mary Shelly's classic tale of a college guy who made a hideous 8' tall cadaver man. Featuring: Stories in stories, tk, and REVENGE.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀 Lindsay & Barbara dig into Dan Kois's funny and heartwarming tale of six paperboys navigating a haunted neighborhood. Featuring: Our family's hand-knitted Christmas stockings, a lint-clogged pee disaster, and shoving a magical troll (named "Shithead") into a waterproof backpack.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀💀 Lindsay & Barbara discuss Rivers Solomon's harrowing tale of three Black siblings who return to their seemingly perfect suburban childhood home only to uncover a terrifying plot linked to their deepest childhood trauma. Featuring: Inoculation from sister meanness, crimes against exotic fish, and systemic US racism.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀💀 Lindsay & Barbara recap Virginia Faito's delightfully despicable tale of a psychopathic Victorian governess and her murderous Christmastime rampage. Featuring: Lindsay's seasonal depression, swapping out a murdered baby for a new one, and ideal vs. actual nighttime routines.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀💀 Lindsay & Barbara discuss Christopher Buehlman's gruesome medieval road trip through medival plauge-ridden France. Featuring: Barbara's new approach to sciatica, a smashed-up toe from the desk Olympics, and whether or not this book is the Bible.

⭐⭐⭐ /  💀💀 Lindsay and Barbara talk through Sarah Waters' gothic novel about a country doctor and his obsession with a big old house and its weird little ghost. Featuring: Barb's naked chicken knitted tank top, sex-energy-fuelled poltergeists, and toxic masculinity.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀💀  READ THIS BOOK — if you dare! In this chilling episode, Lindsay & Barb dive into Josh Malerman's haunting tale of the terrors of parenthood, in which the world of eight-year-old Bella gets turned upside down by her demonic Other Mommy . Featuring: Technical difficulties, back-to-school shopping, and techniques to survive an eternity of torture.

⭐ / 💀 Lindsay & Barbara discuss Jennifer McMahon's underwhelming tale of intergenerational witch trauma and architectural salvage. Featuring: a soggy bog, whiny teen, and questionable building choices.

⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀 WE'RE BACK! Lindsay & Barbara, your favorite scaredy-cat sisters, recap Adam Nevill's terrifying tale of taxidery theater puppets. Featuring: Sawdust bellies, childhood traumas, and a mummified lady in a glass coffin.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /   ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥Lindsay and Barbara recap the sequel to Emily Rath's Beautiful Things, in which we discover what becomes of Rosalie and the THREE men who love her and each other. Featuring: Words Our Mom Says, telling your boyfriend's best friends that you also want them to be your boyfriends, George's redemption, and WHO GOT SHOT!?

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Lindsay and Barbara talk through Emily Rath's Regency romance about a debt-hounded free spirit and the wealthy and handsome men who fall in love with her. Featuring: Lindsay's "Elderflonic," the reason our pockets are so small, and semi-confusing marriage machinations.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara discuss the fourth of Lorraine Heath's Scoundrels of Saint James series. Featuring: Swindler getting swindled, IDENTICAL TRIPLETS, a satanic Victorian sex cult, and redemption.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Lindsay and Barbara are joined by illustrious cousins Matt and Tyler to talk through Emily Rath's super spicy hot hot tale of a sports medicine doctor and the hockey players who love her. Featuring: Pearl-clutching, hot dancing, penis twitching, and a lovely four-person romantic relationship.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara recap the third of Lorraine Heath's Scoundrels of Saint James series. Featuring: Barb's Quaker curiosity, sexy accounting, Frannie's orphan collection, and why American Treasure reminds us of our Dad.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara discuss the second of Lorraine Heath's Scoundrels of Saint James series. Featuring: A scandalous will, sexy train times, and accidentally marrying your father's hot hot widow.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara talk through the first of Lorraine Heath's Scoundrels of Saint James series. Featuring: Lindsay's treadmill, getting stabbed in the hand, and finding out you actually ARE the duke you've been pretending to be.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara recap Lorraine Heath's third Hellions of Havisham novel. Featuring: The truth about Your Mother's bangs, spouses-to-lovers, the terrible (h)Earl Monty Beaumont, and ghost parents in love.

⭐⭐ / 💀💀 Lindsay and Barbara cover Peter Benchley's iconic novel about a great white shark terrorizing a Long Island beach town. Featuring: Your mother's adorable bangs, the world's hottest ichthyologist, Lindsay's rebrand of the egg salad sandwich, and the ending that surprised us both.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara recap Lorraine Heath's second Hellions of Havisham novel. Featuring: Pap smear terriers, emotion support trout, sex broth, and the Deceased Brother's Widow's Marriage Act.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara talk through Lorraine Heath's first Hellions of Havisham novel. Featuring: Lexapro pill mascot suits, a Victorian sex club, early photography, a Duke with a learning disability, and whether you should marry someone who tries to blackmail you.