Book Riot emails are frequently the highlight of my day and I love sharing them with you here! These tv show/film & book pairings go out to my fellow book/tv show bingers!!
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SQUID GAME (available in library system, streaming on Netflix)
CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS BY NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH
What they have most in common: Dystopians with deadly
games used to show society’s ills.
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DARBY AND THE DEAD (streaming on Hulu)
UNDEAD GIRL GANG BY LILY ANDERSON
What they have most in common: Dead cheerleader needing
help from living non-friend, humor, and enemies finding friendship.
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GINNY & GEORGIA (streaming on Netflix)
THE HOLLOW INSIDE BY BROOKE LAUREN DAVIS
What they have most in common: Both have crime and
mysteries, dark humor, women all in on revenge, and mother-daughter
relationships that aren’t the healthiest.
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SHRINKING (streaming on Apple TV+)
MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE BY LORI GOTTLIEB
What they have most in common: Watching a therapist(s)
with their own problems, while being a fly on the wall for their therapy
sessions with patients. Both balance heartfelt and funny.
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POKER FACE (streaming on Peacock TV)
THE LOST ONES (NORA WATTS #1) BY SHEENA KAMAL
What they have most in common: Both MCs operate as
human-lie detectors, solving mysteries, while not having much in the way of
friends and family, and going on cross-country trips.
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THE LAW ACCORDING TO LIDIA POËT (streaming on Netflix)
THE WIDOWS OF MALABAR HILL (PERVEEN MISTRY #1) BY
SUJATA MASSEY
What they have most in common: Both are feminist
historical mysteries with women fighting for rights and solving mysteries as
lawyers during time periods when it was illegal for women to be lawyers. And
both are based on real women in history.
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HARLEM (streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
WASH DAY DIARIES BY JAMILA ROWSER, ROBYN SMITH
What they have most in common: A group of four friends
in NY with the ups and downs of life, filled with a range of emotions including
Black joy.
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EXTRAORDINARY (streaming on Hulu)
HENCH BY NATALIE ZINA WALSCHOTS
What they have most in common: Fun, fresh, creative
takes on the super hero story.
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KILL BOKSOON (streaming on Netflix)
THE OLD WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE: A NOVEL BY GU BYEONG-MO,
CHI-YOUNG KIM (TRANSLATOR)
What they have most in common: Starring older South
Korean hit women with a look at their current life predicament and how they
came to be — neither shies away from violence.
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