My 2025 Summer Reading Guide is out! It is an 18-page printable document that contains over 60 reading recommendations including books from spring and summer 2025 as well mystery series recommendations, fiction/nonfiction pairings, fall 2025 titles that I love, backlist titles, and some fall most anticipated reads. I have read every page of over 90 books and sampled at least 40 more to find the ones that really resonated with me and that I can personally recommend. Please fill out this form to indicate which form of payment (a tip in the amount of your choosing), and I will send it to you!

Brandy Schillace

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Brandy Schillace (skil-AH-chay) is the author of several works of nonfiction, including MR HUMBLE AND DR BUTCHER. She is the creator-host of Peculiar Book Club, a twice-monthly live-stream and podcast bringing bestselling authors together with their readers. A historian and former professor of Literature, Brandy has an abiding love of mystery. She writes about gender politics and history, medical mystery, and neurodiversity for outlets such as Scientific American, Wired, CrimeReads, and Medium. Brandy is also autistic, though has not (to her knowledge) been a suspect in a murder investigation.
(Note: I am on Bluesky as @bschillace.brandyschillace.com)