Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about Domestic Thrillers! We discuss lies, stressful reading, spoiling endings, characters who are not great people, and whether we’d read other books from this genre.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Serial Killer’s Wife by Alice Hunter
• Recipe for a Perfect Housewife by Karma Brown
• The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao
• The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
• I’m the Girl by Courtney Summers
• Bad Fruit by Ella King
• Glasshouse by Charles Stross
• At Least You Have Your Health by Madi Sinha

Other Media We Mentioned

• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Big Little Lies (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum
• The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
• Archie Meets KISS by Alex Segura and Dan Parent
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
• The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
• All the Rage by Courtney Summers
• Sadie by Courtney Summers
• The White Coat Diaries by Madi Sinha
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Links, Articles, and Things

• Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss (Know Your Meme)
• Gaslighting (Wikipedia)
• White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) (Wikipedia)
• Commuter town (Wikipedia)
• Unreliable narrator (Wikipedia)
• Abortifacient (Wikipedia)
  • "that which will cause a miscarriage"
• Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (CO)
• r/AmItheAsshole
• Chinese Indonesians (Wikipedia)
• Panopticon (Wikipedia)
• Portuguese man o' war (Wikipedia)

10 Domestic Thrillers by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• The After Party by A.C. Arthur
• When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
• The Three Mrs. Greys by Shelley Ellis
• And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall
• Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
• The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson
• Spare Room by Dreda Say Mitchell
• The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
• Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
• The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao

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Join us again on Tuesday, April 18th when we’ll be giving our Spring 2023 Media Update!

Then on Tuesday, May 2nd we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Economics! (Economy?)