Royal Scandal, Hollywood Crime, Nail Salon Drama: Pajiba October 2025 Book Recommendations Superpost

Royal Scandal, Hollywood Crime, Nail Salon Drama: Pajiba October 2025 Book Recommendations Superpost

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Widespread Panic by James Ellroy

What is everyone currently reading? I'm back on the James Ellroy train.

— Kayleigh Donaldson ( @ceilidhann.bsky.social ) October 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM

What’s that? Kayleigh read another James Ellroy book? Well, I for one am shocked to hear that. Yes, Ellroy has been my main literary obsession of 2025, and I don’t plan on dropping him any time soon. The demon dog of crime fiction is too juicy for me to abandon, even if he is a genuine weirdo.

Widespread Panic is shockingly short by Ellroy standards - my edition was a spritely 336 pages - but certainly not sparse