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Books Discussed Summer Scares Jackal by Erin E. Adams Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno All These Bodies by Kendare Blake Dead Flip by Sara Farizan #MurderTrending by Gretchen McNeil Ophie’s Ghosts by Justina Ireland The Nest by Kenneth Oppel My Aunt Is A Monster by Reimena Yee Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill (cw: animal experimentation & cruelty, homophobia, violence against women, loss of a child) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 1, Koyoharu Gotouge with John Werry (Translator), Stan!, Adam Grano, Mike Montesa, John Hunt, Symbiosis novellas by Nicky Drayden (cw: body horror) The White Guy Dies First edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker (7/16) Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare The Black Girl Survives in This One edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saraceia J. Fennell (4/2) Chlorine by Jade Song Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices