In this special bonus episode, we chat with writer and editor Meghan Phillips about her obsession with boarding school novels. What makes a good boarding school novel, and why are they all sort of spooky? Plus, we give you lots of recs for our favorite boarding school reads—just in time for Halloween.
Meghan is the author of the upcoming flash fiction chapbook, Abstinence Only, from Barrelhouse Magazine. Follow Meghan on Twitter for more boarding school recommendations and plenty of other bookish tweets.
Books Discussed
The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
The Lightness by Emily Temple
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt
The Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
At Briarwood School for Girls by Michael Knight
Plain Bad Heroines by emily m danforth
True Biz by Sara Novic
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton
Bookstore Shout-Out
Pocket Books in Lancaster, PA
Blind Date with a Book 