On this episode, Chloe Waryan, a librarian and horror fan, discusses how the job of a librarian affects the reading life, their favorite types of horror books, and the way that an audiobook can work really well for her. You’ll learn a bit more about the Chicago Public Library and we discuss the anticipation for the Booker Prize longlist, which came out after this was recorded.    Chloe on Substack  Chloe on Instagram    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee  They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar   Books Highlighted by Chloe: Grey Dog by Elliot Gish Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Build Your House Around my Body by Violet Kupersmith The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty  A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan  Uzumaki by Junji Ito  Turtles All the Way Down by John Green   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino  Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids by Jamie Rix  Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz & Stephen Gammell  The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones  Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez  Eynhallow by Tim McGregor  The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander  The South Side by Natalie Y. Moore  Reprieve by James Han Mattson All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews  Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar  Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison