The Unlikeable Female Characters' Guide to Summer Thrillers
This Week on Unlikeable Female Characters Podcast
Fill up your beach bag with Kristen and Layne’s summer reading recommendations, featuring shotgun-toting housewives, stabby backpackers, sexy ballerinas, and so much more. All books for sale at the official Unlikeable Female Characters Bookshop (or an indie bookstore near you!)
A few summer reading recommendations based on your mood:
Dinner & a show:
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala / The Turnout by Megan Abbott
A getaway (with murder):
We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz / Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Eating the rich:
The Hunting Wives by May Cobb / The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter
Being gay & doing crimes:
Trouble Girls by Julia Lynn Rubin / Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon
Reunions gone (very) wrong:
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead / The Family Plot by Megan Collins
From the episode:
KRISTEN: We’re calling this episode the summer reading preview, but it can also just be the summer book buying preview.
LAYNE: Yes.
KRISTEN: Purchasing books and reading books are not entirely the same thing—and that’s fine.
LAYNE: That’s fine. You can just buy them, stack them up and look at them longingly. That’s also valid. That’s what I do with a lot of books.
KRISTEN: When you buy a book, you’re supporting the author, even if you never read it.
LAYNE: And you can tell yourself you’re gonna read it someday.
KRISTEN: And you will!
LAYNE: You will!
KRISTEN: Someday you will read all of those books.
LAYNE: All of them. Totally.
KRISTEN: So it’s fine to keep adding more books. Keep adding books until you live in a pile of books.
LAYNE: Yeah, absolutely. Co-signed.
Unlikeable Female Characters
Feminist thriller writers Kristen Lepionka, Layne Fargo, and Wendy Heard talk about female characters who don’t give a damn if you like them.
