Read or Dead
Read or Dead is a bi-weekly show dedicated to the worlds of mystery and thriller literature.
1
Dark Academia Strikes Back!
49 min
2
Historical Crime and Horror Novels
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss historical crime and horror novels!
48 min
3
Let's Celebrate Women in Translation Month!
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books for Women in Translation Month!
44 min
4
Books That Have Been on Our TBRs for Far Too Long
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books that they’ve been meaning to get to for far too long. No time like the present!
41 min
5
Our Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of...
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their most anticipated book for the second half of 2025.
36 min
6
Mysteries and Thrillers for Audiobook Month
43 min
7
Mysteries and Thrillers for Pride Month!
40 min
8
Summer Reads from Real People
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend summer reads!
46 min
9
The 2025 Edgar Awards!
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend books from this year's Edgar Awards finalists!
44 min
10
Our 200th Episode!
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester celebrate 200 hundred episodes of Read or Dead!
49 min
11
Genre-Bending Mysteries, Thrillers, and Horror ...
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend genre-defying mysteries, thrillers, and horror novels!
42 min
12
Tackling Our Backlist TBRs
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books from their never-ending backlist TBRs
40 min
13
Mysteries and Thrillers for Your Next Book Club
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend mysteries and thrillers for book clubs!
45 min
14
Feminist Mysteries
Katie McLain Horner and honorary reading assassin Liberty Hardy talk about mysteries with feminist themes for Women's History Month.
45 min
15
Destination Book Recommendations
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend books set in the locations of their 2025 vacations!
38 min
16
Mysteries and Thrillers for Black History Month
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend mysteries and thrillers for Black History Month!
40 min
17
Our Book Recommendations for the 2025 Read Hard...
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend mystery and thriller books to fulfill prompts for the 2025 Read Harder Challenge.
39 min
18
Our Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their most anticipated thriller and mystery books of 2025.
31 min
19
[Rerun] Our Most Anticipated Books of the First...
We are off this holiday week, so we're sharing this rerun from the top of the year to reflect back on the titles we were most looking forward to in the first half of 2024!
44 min
20
Our Favorite Books of 2024
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their favorite books from 2024!
44 min
21
Mysteries and Thrillers for Indigenous Peoples'...
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books for Indigenous Peoples' Month!
37 min
22
Holiday Gift Guide 2024
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their 2024 holiday gift guide!
47 min
23
Scary Season Send Off!
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books for a scary season send-off!
38 min
24
The New York Times's Best Books of the 21st Cen...
Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss mysteries and thrillers from The New York Times’s Best Books of the 21st Century!
45 min
25
The It Books of October 2024
Katie and Kendra have been affected by Hurricane Helene, so we are bringing you this episode from the Book Riot Podcast in which Jeff and Rebecca consider 10 books (including a couple of buzzy mysteries!) and crown one of them the It Book of the Month.
52 min