The New York Times's Best Books of the 21st Century

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss mysteries and thrillers from The New York Times’s Best Books of the 21st Century!

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Things Mentioned

The New York Times’s Best Books of the 21st Century

Books Discussed

• The Guest List - Lucy Foley
• Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - Erik Larson
• Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
• Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk, Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
• The Reformatory - Tananarive Due, Chosen by Stephen Graham Jones NYTs
• It Will Only Hurt For a Moment - Delilah S. Dawson
• The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story - Olga Tokarczuk, Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
• Curdle Creek - Yvonne Battle-Felton

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