5⭐ Audit | What Do My Favourite Books Have in Common?

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0:00 intro

1:38 MIXED MEDIA
House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski
The Wicker King - K Ancrum
Illuminae - Jay Kristoff / Amie Kaufman
The Night Swim - Megan Goldin
This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar / Max Gladstone
The Final Girls - Stephen Graham Jones
Sadie - Courtney Summers
Episode Thirteen - Craig DiLouie
The Appeal - Janice Hallett

3:40 BOOKS
Jameela Green Ruins Everything - Zarqa Nawaz
The Book of the Most Precious Substance - Sara Gran
The Pallbearer's Club - Paul Tremblay
Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
Finlay Donovan is Killing it - Elle Cosimano
Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal
Seven Days in June - Tia Williams
Eight Perfect Murders - Peter Swanson
The Empress of Salt and Fortune - Nghi Vo
Home Before Dark - Riley Sager
Kill Creek - Scott Thomas
Twelve Nights at Rotter House - J.W. Ocker
Gnarled Hollow - Charlotte Green
The Writing Retreat - Julia Bartz
The Last Word - Taylor Adams
The Neighbor Favor - Kristina Forrest

6:14 TIME AND SPACE TRAVEL
Finna - Nino Cipri
Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire
The Hollow Places - T. Kingfisher
11/22/63 - Stephen King
Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
Neverworld Wake - Marisha Pessl
Wrong Place Wrong Time - Gillian McAllister
FairyTale - Stephen King
Oona Out of Order - Margarita Montimore
The Electric Kingdom - David Arnold

9:07 DEATH
Mrs Death Misses Death - Salena Godden
Sign Here - Claudia Lux
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - VE Schwab
The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater
Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger
Watch Over Me - Nina LaCour
The 7 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
When the Reckoning Comes - LaTanya McQueen
How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu
Follow Me to Ground - Sue Rainsford
Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson
The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi
Ordinary Monsters - JM Miro
We Sold Our Souls - Grady Hendrix
The Dead Romantics - Ashley Poston

11:30 APOCALYPSE
Severance - Ling Ma
The Fifth Season - NK Jemisin
A Children's Bible - Lydia Millett
Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam
The Cabin at the End of the World - Paul Tremblay
Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice
The Dreamers - Karen Thompson Walker
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Dry - Neil Shusterman
The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline
We are the Ants - Shaun David Hutchinson
Into the Forest - Jean Hegland
The Drift - CJ Tudor
Black Tide - KC Jones

13:33 INFORMATIVE MEMOIR
Men We Reaped - Jesmyn ward
Between the World and Me - Te-Nihisi Coates
The Skin We're In - Desmond Cole
Disfigured - Amanda Leduc
The Disordered Cosmos - Chandra Prescod-Weinstein
Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
Biased - Jennifer L Eberhardt
Two Trees Make a Forest - Jessica J. Lee
Call Me Indian - Fred Sasakamoose

15:16 OBSESSION
Migrations - Charlotte McConaghy
Once there were Wolves - Charlotte McConaghy
Death in Her Hands - Otessa Moshfegh
The House at the Bottom of the Lake - Josh Malerman
My Heart is a Chainsaw - Stephen Graham Jones
Alice's Island - Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Daphne - Josh Malerman
Woman Eating - Claire Kohda
Middlegame - Seanan McGuire

17:00 UNFAMILIARITY
The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
House of Hunger - Alexis Henderson
Everyone in this Room will Someday be Dead - Emily R Austin
Lock Every Door - Riley Sager
The Turn of the Key - Ruth Ware
Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson
Bunny - Mona Awad
The Spite House - Johnny Compton

20:07 WOMEN'S LOVE
Wilder Girls - Rory Power
Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan
Summer of Salt - Katrina Leno
Girls Burn Brighter - Shobha Rao
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
Sorrowland - Rivers Soloman
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them - Junauda Petrus
The Weight of the Stars - K Ancrum
Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo
Even Though I Knew the End - CL Polk

21:35 FAKE DATING
Honey and Spice - Bolu Babalola
The Wedding Crasher - Mia Sosa
The Bodyguard - Katherine Center
The Beautiful Ones - Silvia Moreno Garcia
A Curious Beginning - Deanna Raybourn
Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating - Adiba Jaigirdar
Happy Place - Emily Henry
Two Wrongs Make a Right - Chloe Liese

23:33 WEDDINGS
Sweethand - NG Peltier
So Happy for You - Celia Laskey
You're Invited - Amanda Jayatissa
The Guest List - Lucy Foley
Dial A for Aunties - Jesse Q. Sutanto
Jackal - Erin E Adams
One of the Girls - Lucy Clark
A Holly Jolly Diwali - Sonya Lalli

25:17 LISTS
The One - John Marrs
Eight Perfect Murders - Peter Swanson
7 Deaths Evelyn Hardcastle -
Six Stories - Matt Wesolowski
Oona Out of Order - Margarita Montimore

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