In this episode of Mostly Fictional (we finally say our name!), Hallie and Pam prepare for the spooky reading season and attempt to coordinate a buddy-read.

Books mentioned, in order:
The Employees by Olga Ravn
The Lovers by Paolo Cognetti
The Doloriad by Missouri Williams
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
In the Orchard by Eliza Minot
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Toddler Hunting and Other Stories by Kono Taeko
Outline by Rachel Cusk
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
How High We Go In the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn
I’m the Girl by Courtney Summers
Sadie by Courtney Summers
The Project by Courtney Summers
No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
The Hearts We Sold by Emily Lloyd-Jones
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays by CJ Hauser
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror by Tori Bovalino
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield