This episode is something completely different! Our editor has put together a series of contextless clips from roughly episode 100 onwards, with a series of our most wonderful and weirdest tangents.

Listen to hear our editor speak for only the second time ever in 126 episodes!

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In this indie author (independently published books) recommendation list, we cover new releases due to come out, or that have recently been released. This is an ongoing series where we give indie authors a moment in the spotlight! This episode we have a mix of contemporary fiction, YA, Speculative fiction, romance and fantasy.

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Books we talk about in today's episode are:

• Poison heart - Mae Pierce
• The Masks We Wear - B.D.Carpenter
• Serpents of Sky and Flame - Rebecca F. Kenney
• Cats out of the Bag - L.Caroline
• Falling for Fables - Jenna Wolfheart
• Fate of the Sun King - Nisha J Tuli
• Herald - Robert J Hayes

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It's important to read diversely all year round but for Pride month we are bringing you a little list of recommendations as a place to start. This list has got everything from graphic novels to short story collections to fantasy and romance!

Books discussed in today's episode are:

• Proud - Juno Dawson
• Mooncakes -Suzanne Walker
• The Tea Dragon Society - K.Oneil
• The Girl from the Sea - Molly Knox Ostertag
• Gender Queer: A Memoir - Maia Kobabe
• Transmogrify! - An anthology with a variety of authors
• The Dos and Donuts of Love - Adiba Jaigirdar
• She Is a Haunting - Trang Thanh Tran
• The Sins on Their Bones - Laura R. Samotin

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For once the Lazy Book Lovers haven't been so lazy! We've been making our way through our tbr lists so that's why we're bringing you a two part reading update. In part 2, Toni's romance kick continues with a little sprinkling of fantasy and Tali is bringing you some more thrillers.

Books discussed in today's episode are:

Toni's reads:

• The Light That Blinds Us
• The Ex Talk
• The Hating Game

Tali's reads:

• None of This Is True
• The Sins on Their Bones
• The Centre

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For once the Lazy Book Lovers haven't been so lazy! We've been making our way through our tbr lists so that's why we're bringing you a two part reading update. In part 1, Toni's been on a romance kick again and Tali's bringing a mix of thriller, speculative fiction and fantasy.

Books discussed in today's episode are:

Toni reads:

• Ice Planet Barbarians
• Twice in a Blue Moon
• Happy Place
• Bride

Tali reads:

• Wayward Children series
• The Disappearing Act
• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

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Since vampires are having their moment we have made you a little tbr list, from classics, to debuts, to translated fiction, this short and sweet list has a little bit of everything.

Books discuss in this episode are:

• Dracula – Bram Stoker
• Shanghai Immortal – A.Y. Chao
• Masters of Death – Olivie Blake
• The Southern Book Clubs Guide to Slaying Vampires – Grady Hendrix
• Fangs – Sarah Anderson
• The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
• Certain Dark Things – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Shadow of Night – Deborah Harkness
• Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist

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In March and April we ran the Lazy Book Lovers podcast's first ever buddy read! The rules are simple, we try to pick an indie author whose book is available on Kindle Unlimited and we have two months to read it. Our book for March-April was Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J Tuli!

In this spoiler free episode, we talk about the themes, plots and characters in the book and what we did and didn't like.

You can join our next buddy read on Storygraph here, which will be A Thorn Among Roses by Hayley Anderton!

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This is a full spoilers chaos episode with a bunch of recs from Tali's recent thriller binge. We're bringing you lots of death and lots of weird sh*t happening in fancy mansions with rich people!

Books discussed in today's episode are:

• The seven deaths of Evelyn hard castle - Stuart Turton
• The family game - Catherine Steadman
• The murder game - Tom Hindle
• The Christmas Murder Game - Alexandra Benedict
• The 12 days of murder - Andreina Cordani

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