Recs if you like Listen for the Lie...
It's a (Modern) Mystery!
Like Agatha Christie but in the modern world. Please leave recommendations!
Book(s) of the Month(s) 📚
Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!
Mysteries and Thrillers
This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them 💕
If BookTok sneezed, it ended up on this list…
Featuring morally gray men, unreliable narrators, emotional damage, dragons, serial killers, fake dating, enemies-to-lovers, and at least 47 books someone claimed “changed their life.” Proceed with caution.
crime: being an unreliable narrator
If being an unreliable narrator was a crime, these characters would be in trouble
🇬🇹 🇲🇽 Latinx Heritage Month 🇨🇱 🇨🇷
Latine/Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15 to October 15 but we can celebrate all year long by reading one of these titles!
Additional Resources: ~ https://latino.si.edu/learn/teaching-and-learning-resources/hispanic-heritage-month-resources/hispanic-heritage-month ~ https://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2025/hispanic-heritage-month.html
Tiny Fables
All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.
Mixed Media (Mystery) Books
A collection of mixed media and epistolary/immersive books
Murder, but make it awkward.
Funny or darkly comic murder books featuring bungled plans, accidental deaths, bizarre families, amateur sleuths, incompetent criminals or people who are just having the worst day imaginable.
Thriller books for thriller girlies
Thrillers I read or want to read. Variety of authors.
Thrillers that actually have different plots 😅
If you’re here, like me you might be tired of basically seeing the same plots and storylines over and over. This is a list of ones I’ve enjoyed that are all (mostly) different from each other*. Main thing in common might be the author.
*Can’t guarantee there aren’t similar types of twists/reveals lol.
who what when where am I?
protagonists with amnesia or memory loss trying to figure out what happened/is going on
Books you NEED to listen to, they're that good!
Books that really should be read via audiobook instead of physical/digital copy. Production, narrator, experience all top tier. Memoirs narrated by the authors.
books with fictional podcasts
fiction that features podcasts and podcasters, whether they're following a crime, investigating a cold case, or something else entirely
The only way to experience these is audio
I used to be a physical-only girlie, but I've changed my tune.
Tiny bookshop books
From the game. Because I can't be the only one using it as an excuse to add to my tbr
And Just When They Thought They Got Away With It
So I LOVE the show Cold Case (ilysm Lilly Rush/Scotty Valens). Cold case mystery/thrillers live in that unsettling space where justice failed the first time, and the world moved on as if the truth didn’t matter. These stories, like the show, return to those forgotten crimes years, even decades later, when a detective, journalist, podcaster, or relentless outsider decides to dig deeper. #tacklingunfinishedbusiness #coldcases
Novel Another Podcast, ugh
Podcasts! Podcasters! True Crime elements (but, you know, in fiction)! (Formerly called "Novels With Podcasters" until @mariangello came up with this brilliant title). Also see Influencers in Fiction
She Solved One Case and Now We Want More
Your Pip-shaped hole deserves nothing less than full-blown mystery mayhem. This list is a survival guide for readers who've finished A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and are hunting for their next high-stakes obsession with amateur sleuth energy, buried secrets, unlikely sidekicks and adrenaline-fueled twists that demand binge-reading.
Well Re(a)d
Books with red covers
