(Title reference to short story writer Raymond Carver and his story collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and Haruki Murakami’s play on that in his memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running).   Books mentioned: Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlaneHolly, Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers and The Outsider by Stephen KingThe Interestings by Meg WolitzerNettle and Bone by T. KingfisherDark Matter by Blake CrouchThe Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda MontellThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionBetween Two Kingdoms by Suleika JouadThe Ministry of Time by Kaliane BradleyOrdinary Monsters by J.M. Miro (Steven Price)(Also mentioned Esi Edugyan)The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas KingThe Darkest White: The mountain legend and the avalanche that took him by Eric BlehmJames and Erasure by Percival EverrettThe Goblin Emperor by Katherine AddisonThe Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBrideA Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni GhriofaA Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid KemmererThe Caretaker by Ron Rash I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue Beautyland by Marie-Helen BertiniThe Body in Question by Jill Cement If You Only Knew by Kristin HigginsThe Book of Doors by Gareth BrownA Thousand Doors of January and Starling House by Alix E. HarrowSpellbound by Allie TherinThe Last Bookshop in London by Madeline MartinSlippery Creatures by K.J. CharlesAlphabetical Diaries by Sheila HetiFunny Story by Emily HenryOnce and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow