Podcast hosts are all the rage right now, and that trend is popping up in every genre of fiction. Here are just a few novels featuring podcasts that have gotten all the buzz.
Sadie by Courtney Summers
Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.
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The Other Side of Disappearing by Kate Clayborn
Accompanying her younger sister and a podcast team on a cross-country search for their mother, who ran off with an accomplished con man years earlier, Jess unravels the mystery of where the couple disappeared to and why, and discovers a willingness to expand beyond the walls she's so carefully built.
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Conviction by Denise Mina
An upper-class Edinburgh housewife who enjoys listening to the sordid details of true-crime podcasts has her world turned upside down when a new podcast turns out to have connections to her own dark past.
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Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
A studious girl and a quiet, straight-A boy start a controversial podcast together that challenges their courage and forces them to confront issues in the form of backlash and censorship.
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Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin
When the halal restaurant where she waitresses is threatened by new competition, a rising podcaster uncovers a long-buried family secret and falls for a rival before their community is upended by a hate attack.