Sisters Are Reading

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀 Lindsay & Barbara dig into Dan Kois's funny and heartwarming tale of six paperboys navigating a haunted neighborhood. Featuring: Our family's hand-knitted Christmas stockings, a lint-clogged pee disaster, and shoving a magical troll (named "Shithead") into a waterproof backpack.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀💀 Lindsay & Barbara discuss Rivers Solomon's harrowing tale of three Black siblings who return to their seemingly perfect suburban childhood home only to uncover a terrifying plot linked to their deepest childhood trauma. Featuring: Inoculation from sister meanness, crimes against exotic fish, and systemic US racism.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀💀 Lindsay & Barbara recap Virginia Faito's delightfully despicable tale of a psychopathic Victorian governess and her murderous Christmastime rampage. Featuring: Lindsay's seasonal depression, swapping out a murdered baby for a new one, and ideal vs. actual nighttime routines.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀💀 Lindsay & Barbara discuss Christopher Buehlman's gruesome medieval road trip through medival plauge-ridden France. Featuring: Barbara's new approach to sciatica, a smashed-up toe from the desk Olympics, and whether or not this book is the Bible.

⭐⭐⭐ /  💀💀 Lindsay and Barbara talk through Sarah Waters' gothic novel about a country doctor and his obsession with a big old house and its weird little ghost. Featuring: Barb's naked chicken knitted tank top, sex-energy-fuelled poltergeists, and toxic masculinity.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀💀  READ THIS BOOK — if you dare! In this chilling episode, Lindsay & Barb dive into Josh Malerman's haunting tale of the terrors of parenthood, in which the world of eight-year-old Bella gets turned upside down by her demonic Other Mommy. Featuring: Technical difficulties, back-to-school shopping, and techniques to survive an eternity of torture.

⭐ / 💀 Lindsay & Barbara discuss Jennifer McMahon's underwhelming tale of intergenerational witch trauma and architectural salvage. Featuring: a soggy bog, whiny teen, and questionable building choices.

⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀 WE'RE BACK! Lindsay & Barbara, your favorite scaredy-cat sisters, recap Adam Nevill's terrifying tale of taxidery theater puppets. Featuring: Sawdust bellies, childhood traumas, and a mummified lady in a glass coffin.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /   ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥Lindsay and Barbara recap the sequel to Emily Rath's Beautiful Things, in which we discover what becomes of Rosalie and the THREE men who love her and each other. Featuring: Words Our Mom Says, telling your boyfriend's best friends that you also want them to be your boyfriends, George's redemption, and WHO GOT SHOT!?

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Lindsay and Barbara talk through Emily Rath's Regency romance about a debt-hounded free spirit and the wealthy and handsome men who fall in love with her. Featuring: Lindsay's "Elderflonic," the reason our pockets are so small, and semi-confusing marriage machinations.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara discuss the fourth of Lorraine Heath's Scoundrels of Saint James series. Featuring: Swindler getting swindled, IDENTICAL TRIPLETS, a satanic Victorian sex cult, and redemption.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Lindsay and Barbara are joined by illustrious cousins Matt and Tyler to talk through Emily Rath's super spicy hot hot tale of a sports medicine doctor and the hockey players who love her. Featuring: Pearl-clutching, hot dancing, penis twitching, and a lovely four-person romantic relationship.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara recap the third of Lorraine Heath's Scoundrels of Saint James series. Featuring: Barb's Quaker curiosity, sexy accounting, Frannie's orphan collection, and why American Treasure reminds us of our Dad.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara discuss the second of Lorraine Heath's Scoundrels of Saint James series. Featuring: A scandalous will, sexy train times, and accidentally marrying your father's hot hot widow.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara talk through the first of Lorraine Heath's Scoundrels of Saint James series. Featuring: Lindsay's treadmill, getting stabbed in the hand, and finding out you actually ARE the duke you've been pretending to be.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara recap Lorraine Heath's third Hellions of Havisham novel. Featuring: The truth about Your Mother's bangs, spouses-to-lovers, the terrible (h)Earl Monty Beaumont, and ghost parents in love.

⭐⭐ / 💀💀 Lindsay and Barbara cover Peter Benchley's iconic novel about a great white shark terrorizing a Long Island beach town. Featuring: Your mother's adorable bangs, the world's hottest ichthyologist, Lindsay's rebrand of the egg salad sandwich, and the ending that surprised us both.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara recap Lorraine Heath's second Hellions of Havisham novel. Featuring: Pap smear terriers, emotion support trout, sex broth, and the Deceased Brother's Widow's Marriage Act.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara talk through Lorraine Heath's first Hellions of Havisham novel. Featuring: Lexapro pill mascot suits, a Victorian sex club, early photography, a Duke with a learning disability, and whether you should marry someone who tries to blackmail you.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara discuss the third and final chapter of the Lost Lords of Pembrook series. Featuring: Rafe's secret dirty room, why he doesn't deserve fitted sheets, and a lot of tragicomic misunderstandings.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀 READ THIS BOOK! Lindsay and Barbara recap Stephen King's icon novel about a telekinetic high school student and her anguished rampage through prom and town. Featuring: Menstruation stories, high school bullies, terror prom, and John Dewey.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ /  🩷🩷🩷 Lindsay and Barbara talk through the first two of Lorraine Heath's "Lost Lords of Pembrook" novels about traumatized aristocratic brothers and the women who heal their hearts. Featuring: 1800s Medium Britain, great plots, horny virgins, and Barbara's struggle with the Bridgerton alphabet. Plus, lots of sister chat!

⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀 Lindsay and Barbara discuss Gabino Iglesias' terrifying tale of a hired killer and the haunting underbelly of the Texas/Mexico border. Featuring: Lots of sister chitchat, magical body parts, ectoplasmic vomit, and a depressing end.  

⭐⭐ / 💀💀💀💀 Lindsay tells Barbara all about Nick Cutter's scary western about a trio of mercenaries and the evil goo monsters that are trying to kill a cult's children in Lincoln County, NM. Featuring: Our new metal band – Heinous Anus, Medium Britain, making a deal with the Baby Blob, and more.

Lindsay and Barbara reminisce about all 100 books they've read so far and decide on an official top 10: 1. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones 2. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 3. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill 4. Sundial by Catriona Ward 5. Lone Women by Victor LaValle 6. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill 7. The Troop by Nick Cutter 8. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty 9. Misery by Stephen King 10. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

⭐⭐ / 💀 Lindsay and Barbara talk through Jenny Kiefer's horrifying tale about four friends exploring a new rock climbing cliff and the evil that won't let them leave alive. Featuring: A newfound appreciation for Paris Hilton, lawn talk, and whether you'd choose to search for a lost dog OR rock climb for your influencer career.

READ THIS BOOK. Lindsay and Barbara recap William Peter Blatty's iconic novel of a little girl and the priests who try to save her from a disturbing demonic possession. Featuring: Lindsay's new bamboo, why Mom never believed in Satanism, and the terrible experience of powerlessness in the face of a child's suffering.

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Luke Dumas' museum-filled book about a nervous paleontologist and the ghost dinosaurs that haunt him. Featuring: The T-Rex that was at Lindsay's wedding, too much sister chitchat, how museums work, and the discovery of the bones of the ghost sister dinosaur!

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Christopher Golden's mediocre tale of an American couple who accidentally buy an ultra-haunted, demonic home in Sicily. Featuring: Barbara's review of the TWA Hotel, why you should always tell your grandma what house you're buying, exorcism murder ghosts, and a demon-worshiping realtor. Also – what IS Gumby?

Lindsay and Barbara recap Catriona Ward's confusing tale of a trio of friends in a book in the book and one's a witch and one's the son of a serial killer. Featuring: Pterodactyl sex novels, bffs on the beach, convoluted storylines, and teenage girl magic.

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Kiersten White's highly relatable and creepy tale of the adult survivors of a 90s children's TV show and the cult that created it all. Featuring: Lindsay's hangover, elementary school nostalgia, overcoming childhood trauma, and sacrificing yourself to be with your sister in a pocket universe. Love!

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Jo Nesbo's trippy weird novel about a teenage bully and the surreal hijinks that ensue. Featuring: Lindsay's Cruise Talk™ and recap, watching your friend get sucked into a phone, books in books, electro shock, and sideways trauma healing.

While Lindsay is off cruising around the Caribbean, Barbara, Jan, and Bruce discuss Richard Osman's thoroughly excellent murder mystery about a quartet of septuagenarians. Featuring: Mom's boxed wine, the HOA President, Helen Mirren, and more.

Lindsay and Barbara recap Emily Ruth Verona's take on the '90s babysitter slasher. Featuring: Lindsay's first mammogram, what someone did on shrooms, mean teens, and a twist you'll never see coming.

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Riley Sager's haunted house novel of a traumatized interior designer returning to her haunted childhood home, Featuring: SO MUCH CHITCHAT, bad titles, hot Dane, and twisty turny twists,

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Darcy Coates' terrifying tale of scuba divers exploring a wrecked ghost ship filled with super haunted underwater zombies. Featuring: big deep watery hugs, trauma redemption, and the number one best reason to not retrieve your girlfriend's family's heirloom engagement ring.

Lindsay and Barbara dig into Steven L. Peck's mind-melting tale of a Morman man in a library hell containing every book that could ever be written. Featuring: Sister tattoos, Zoroastrian traditions, and hell's greatest meat bone flutist – Lindsay.

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Ari Aster's flower-bedecked horror show about a group of young Americans visiting a Swedish cult for their murderous midsummer festival. Featuring: Pubic hair pie, dirty folk art, and watching your terrible boyfriend burn alive while sewn into a bear carcass. Like ya do.

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Ling Ling Huang's physical horror novel skewering the wellness and beauty industry. Featuring: Holiday updates, freaky beauty treatments, cannibalism, and Zoroastrian sky burials.

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Iain Reid's surreal thriller about a girl meeting her boyfriend's parents at their creepy farmhouse. Featuring: Barbara's embarrassing tumble down the stairs, Lindsay's favorite Xmas movie, creepy confusion, and our proposed Captain Planet reboot starring Greta Thunberg, directed by Greta Gerwig.

Lindsay and Barbara talk about Craig DiLouie's wackadoo novel about the child survivors of a mysterious death cult as they grapple with their trauma 15 years later. Featuring: Self mutilation, emo music, recovered memories, and how Lindsay would be a great cult VP.

Lindsay and Barbara recap Daniel Kehlmann's novella about a struggling screenwriter driven mad by an isolated vacation house that's also a rift in the space-time continuum? Featuring: The world's worst blurb, calling my sister "middle aged," Besties II, and using the word hypotenuse in everyday speech. 

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Erin Bowman's scary-in-space novel about a crew attempting to escape an alien infection. Featuring: Dream interpretation, losing and finding Barbara's phone, scary space zombies, Dr. Lady, and transportation narcolepsy.

Lindsay and Barbara dig into David Mitchell's tale of a mysterious London house that only appears every nine years and the people who go missing there. Featuring: Red bland wine, physical therapy, soul-slurping siblings, lacunae, deadly hatpins, and more.

NOT SCARY – Lindsay talks Barbara through the first of Sarah J. Maas' ultra-popular sexy fairy books. Featuring: Magic psychic fairy bonds, masque masks, will-they-won't-they, and more totally fun non-scary things.

Barbara tells Lindsay about Camille DeAngelis' cannibal-coming-of-age story. Featuring: The New York Marathon, delicious boys, surprise grandpas, and Timothée Chalamet.

5Lindsay and Barbara recap Edgar Allen Poe's iconic short story about a dude visiting his depressed friend in a creepy mansion. Featuring: Non-scary book obsessions, the spirits of vegetable things, Notting Hill, and critical criticisms.

Lindsay first shares her hilariously harrowing experience with an intoxicated woman at the Denver Airport. Then the sisters discuss Joan Samson's chilling novel about a small New Hampshire town that gets taken over by a conman auctioneer. Featuring: New England antiques, the lure of land, child auctions, and Watching the New Baby.

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Danielle Valentine's meh novel about an anxious millennial who gets pregnant and miscarries (but doesn't?). Featuring: Spilled wine, telling-not-showing, and putting your soul into the body of your best friend's dead baby.

Lindsay and Barbara recap one of the greatest short stories ever written – Shirley Jackson's The Lottery. Featuring: Sound description of an accordion, sore losers, and human sacrifice.