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New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2025 2025 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel Goodreads Choice Award Finalist for Horror USA TODAY Best Books of 2025 Library Journal Best Books of 2025 Spotify Best Horror Books of 2025 Kobo Best Horror Books of 2025 Book Riot Best Books of 2025 Los Angeles Public Library Best Fiction of 2025 Google Play Best Horror Novel of 2025 Narrated by Audie and Earphones Award winner Natalie Naudus "A compelling, gory, ghostly romp." —Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie "This is what it felt like to live in New York City during lockdown: haunted, absurd, terrifying, ridiculous, and full of hungry ghosts." —Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House In this explosive horror novel, a woman is haunted by inner trauma, hungry ghosts, and a serial killer as she confronts the brutal violence experienced by East Asians during the pandemic. Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. But none of that seems so terrible when she’s already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister, Delilah, being pushed in front of a train. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer shouted two words: bat eater. So the bloody messes don’t really bother Cora—she’s more bothered by the germs on the subway railing, the bare hands of a stranger, the hidden viruses in every corner, and the bite marks on her coffee table. Of course, ever since Delilah was killed in front of her, Cora can’t be sure what's real and what’s in her head. She pushes away all feelings and ignores the advice of her aunt to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, when the gates of hell open. But she can't ignore the dread in her stomach as she keeps finding bat carcasses at crime scenes, or the scary fact that all her recent cleanups have been the bodies of East Asian women. As Cora will soon learn, you can’t just ignore hungry ghosts. For fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Gretchen Felker-Martin, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng is a wildly original, darkly humorous, and subversive contemporary novel from a striking new voice in horror. Read more

Listening Length ‏ : ‎ 8 hours and 47 minutes


Author ‏ : ‎ Kylie Lee Baker


Narrator ‏ : ‎ Natalie Naudus


Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 29, 2025


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Publisher ‏ : ‎ MIRA


Version ‏ : ‎ Unabridged


Program Type ‏ : ‎ Audiobook


Best Sellers Rank: #8,005 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #20 in Asian American & Pacific Islander Literature (Books) #22 in Asian American & Pacific Islander Literature (Audible Books & Originals) #24 in Ghost Horror Fiction


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    • Excellent atmospheric horror
Format: Kindle
<b>Pre-Read Notes:</b> I was hoping for a creepy story here but I was not prepared for what I found, in the very best ways! <i>"Cora swallows, flounders for words she can say easily. “Please be quiet,” she says in Mandarin, which isn’t exactly the same as don’t panic, but she can’t remember how to say that. “I think there’s someone in the closet.” "</i> p242 <b>Final Review</b> (thoughts & recs) This is an absolutely horrifying book that, like a lot of good horror, utilizes the horror natural to the characters' environment. I love horror that makes me feel many kinds of fear on behalf of the characters. It stretches my empathy muscles to be that aware of characters' experiences. I think when the setting takes on the level of significance in a book, or has this much impact on the plot, it becomes a character all its own. Setting as character is hard to achieve, but this book is a fine example. Fans of She Is a Haunting or Listen to Your Sister will love this one. I also recommend to horror fans who love setting, fans of Covid as horror, and gory horror. <b>My 3 Favorite Things:</b> ✔️ I love that this story keeps deconstructing homes and reveals their vulnerability. It creates an uncanny sort of fear as you realize-- she's also talking about your house. ✔️ This book really explores the struggles of AAPI people after the outbreak of Covid. Some of the crimes described here are jaw-dropping. The narrative builds on this hatred. The environment is perfect for a story about a serial killer of AAPI girls and young women. <i>"Yifei was undocumented, and Yifei Liu wasn’t even her real name, so she became a Jane Doe in a morgue. Cora, having no relation to her, no proof of who she was, wasn’t allowed to identify her body much less do anything with it. Cora would have paid the ten grand or however much it cost just to hold a funeral for her, but she wasn’t allowed to. She read that unclaimed corpses are usually dumped into communal graves on Hart Island, so maybe she’ll go there one day, when she feels less ashamed."</i> p295 ✔️ The horror concept here is amazing. Cora must confront a supernatural force, all while she and so many others are facing irrational violence from every significant force around them, in addition to a plague. It creates a claustrophobic feeling that is apropos to the setting, NYC during the Covid quarantine. The design of this story is spectacular. <b>Notes:</b> 1. Content warnings: claustrophobia triggers, racism, assault, saliva/spit, murder, blood, gore, animal injury and death, ghosts/spirits, loss of sibling, difficult familial relationships I found an accessible digital copy of THE BAT EATER AND OTHER NAMES FOR CORA ZENG by Kylie Lee Baker in Kindle Unlimited. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2025 by D.
    • Great quick read!
Format: Hardcover
Pacing - 4.5 out of 5 stars I loved the length of chapters and how much they did vary. I never felt at any point in this journey the author dragged anything out to a point where I felt like this was a chore, or a bore to get through. I probably could have breezed through this quicker than I did. Pacing was by far, in my opinion one of the best horror reads of the year. Horror factor - 4 out of 5 stars Hungry ghosts….It was a good balance of horror. I actually think I could have used more hungry ghost imagery. I enjoyed the horror aspect so much, that I really wished the author just gave us more. Give me less transition, less dialogue, and more hungry ghosts! I loved what I devoured so much that I just left wanting more. Characters - 3.25 out of 5 stars Cora - I love Cora. I honestly felt so at home reading about her. Not only was it easy to understand, she was a complex character written in a way that made it easy to relate, and understand what she was going through during the story. I wish more authors understood that you can write a complex character in an easy to understand and simple way. Her character development through the story is one I feel is easily understood by the reader. Yifei, Harvey, Auntie Zeng, and Lois - Loved them. True supporting cast, that you get to know just enough to be able to see how they add to the story. Final act of the book has some nice endings, and reveals for several of these characters, that I enjoyed. The ending - 3 out of 5 stars I feel like one aspect of the ending was done just to put a period on a sentence. I almost wish it didn’t end the way it did. If I could change one thing about the book, it would definitely be more ghosts, AND the ending. The final act, and how it ended would be one thing that if the author tweaked it a little bit, this would be a 5 out of 5 book. Did I like it? Yes! Will I keep it in my library to read again? YES! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2025 by Hawks Horror
    • 3.5 \ 5.0
Format: Kindle
This book was intense from the first moment until the very last scenes. It felt like a constrictor wrapped around me tightening until it hit a tipping point and everything rushed at me at once. I was so unbelievably frustrated by the casual racism, even knowing it is a major theme of the book and a rampant truth to life in the US. There were parts of this that were so numbingly repetitive that I began to wonder if it was a word count thing. Have some faith in the reader, let us piece things together on our own. The writing itself was good, and the overall plot was enticing, but my biggest gripe was the pacing. This took forever. Overall, not the best and not the worst. I am not a hotel fan, so for one of the maybe dozen horror novels I have ever read, it was fine. Until Next Time, MC ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2025 by Thicc & Ired
    • Entertaining, Creepy, Real Feels
Format: Paperback
Very intriguing, I enjoyed the author's straightforward yet empathetic writing style. I didn't feel like a word I read was wasted and I'd love to read all of her books. Good horror with good humor. No boring or dull moments! I was genuinely entertained throughout without it becoming in any way shallow or too light for the subjects. Highly recommend. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2026 by Spacial Influence
    • Fantastic
Format: Kindle
This was such a great book and my only regret is that it took me so long to read it and finish it. Not because I didn't like it, because I tell you what, I loved this book, but because of life. This book was haunting not only in a paranormal way but also in showing the dark side of humanity. I love that this book represented mental illness, overall daily life struggles and it gave the reader perspective through the eyes of someone of Asian descent when the world was dealing with COVID. It tackled grief, loneliness, fear, acceptance, and finding oneself. This book was so beautifully written and if I had to sum it up in a few words they would be the following: "unique, eerie, devastating". There was not one lull, and the author's intense imagery had me feeling like I was truly there living as our main character Cora. I absolutely loved this book and I highly HIGHLY recommend you read it (if you have a strong stomach because there are some graphic scenes). ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2025 by Jessica Farmer
    • ANTI-ASIAN HATE – THE DEADLY SCOURGE RETURNS WITH A VENGEANCE
Format: Hardcover
Author (Kylie Lee Baker)’s mission (see the subject line) is made clear from the very beginning (the cover sets forth Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng) to the very end where her ending narrative is: “….this is my personal experience….Anti-Asian hate is real and deserves attention, but it is only one symptom of a deeply broken society, and we cannot understand or stop it without acknowledging the danger of white supremacy and all the other people it has hurt. Do not let your empathy stop at the borders of your own community.” With novelist Baker’s irrefutably meeting her mission, through the venue of Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, she earns a 5-star rating from me. That said, I wish I could give it a lower 4.5-star rating; I explain: First chapter of Bat Eater was interesting, the scope: leading up to and including the main character’s Chinese sister being heinously shoved in front of a train (in NYC) by a white guy yelling “bat eater.” However, much of the remainder of the book was not measuring up to that standard. I would stay with Bat Eater because the last part of the book might include the justice of the shoving-in-front-of-a-train Asian-hating guy being caught. (I shouldn’t do a spoiler, right?) Much of Bat Eater was the three main characters (their job was cleaning up unspeakably gross crime scenes, perhaps a function of anti-Asian hate) conversing. I’m okay with intelligent talk but theirs was often.... I’m going to advise Novelist Kylie Lee Baker on keeping the interest-level up in her books. (And I do have irrefutable proof that an author does read customer reviews at Amazon and finds unjustifiably low ratings concerning, resulting in a “(Help!).”) Kylie Lee Baker, wouldn’t your three main characters sometimes do intimacy, including sex? Not once were we seeing that. There was an in, for example when a situation brought about Cora Zeng (main character) and her male associate (Harvey)’s having to spend the night together in the same apartment. Their associate (Yifei) even was even exclaiming indignantly when surprised to see them in the apartment during the night, “You two haven’t been (copulating), have you?” – It went something like that. I recently finished Larissa Pham’s superb Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy. She can show you, Ms Baker, how to…well, you know! Larissa Pham is real, doesn’t hold anything back. I subsequently received through Amazon her Fantasian. Her writing is…well, you’ll want more of it. The reason I bought Kylie Lee Baker’s Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng did deliver. I have a strong dislike of the negativity that our Asians and Asian-Americans sometimes face. The author included such anecdotes, “bat eater…chink… go back to China” (as trash was emptied on top of a couple of the main characters from an apartment)….” They deserve better. Much of this Asians don’t belong attitude emanates from examples of an entire population of white people living on land those before them murdered for and stole. And they feel they are the ones who belong. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2026 by Lewis Hitchcock
    • Wow, what a time to be alive
Format: Kindle
This book was terrifying in so many ways. It took me back to the pandemic, to the hate that was so prevalent in the world. I feel for all the people who were harmed during the pandemic. We must be better.
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2026 by ostrichsyzed
    • Not a pleasant Read
Format: Kindle
I did not enjoy this book, and I think that’s the point. My main commentary on this book is going to be that it is extremely depressing. There are moments of scary, but scariest part by far was the worst parts of the real world we all live in. I think it talks about a really important issue that is not spoken about enough and definitely not so blatantly. This book made me feel sick to my stomach in so many ways and I wouldn’t be me if some of these passages didn’t bring me to tears. I did not enjoy reading this book. It was not pleasant, but I am really grateful that there are people talking about these things that need to be discussed. It also saddens me to my core knowing that the people who are ignorant to these topics and who could benefit from understanding a perspective other than their own, are also the people who would likely never pick up a book written by an Asian woman on the bogus belief that it has nothing to do with them. My additional notes are just going to be on the sheer talent coming from the author here. Her scenery is so vivid, so heart wrenchingly clear in my mind, and the book was a pretty swift read, despite it being hard to read for moral reasons. This author is extremely talented and I would be excited to read another one of her books. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2026 by Tabitha Swain

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