Get Booked

In this special bonus episode, Amanda and Jenn recommend some of their favorite books that are otherwise impossible to recommend. This episode is sponsored by our Mystery/Thriller Giveaway, Blinkist, and Libro.fm. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Feedback Amazing librarian Stephanie makes an amazing Get Booked spreadsheet! Books Discussed Love and Trouble by Claire Dederer (tw sexual assault) The Vagina Bible by Dr. Jen Gunter Somewhere in the Middle by Deborah Francisco Douglas The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England by Ruth Goodman Clandestine in Chile by Gabriel Garcia Márquez Summer Cooking by Elizabeth David Meeting Faith by Faith Adiele Witches, Sluts, Feminists by Kristen J. Sollee Star Trek The Next Generation: Dark Mirror by Diane Duane Guano by Louis Carmain, translated by Rhonda Mullins Red or Dead

Amanda and Jenn discuss action heroines, bonkers plotlines, police procedurals, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by our Mystery/Thriller giveaway, Slay by Brittney Morris, and the audiobook of Frankly in Love by David Yoon. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor (rec’d by Stephanie) Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan (rec’d by Elizabeth) Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi (rec’d by Khadija) The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron (rec’d by Aleks) Books Discussed The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun, translated by Sora Kim-Russell The Birth of Korean Cool by Euny Hong The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes When Dimple Met Rishi by Sand

Amanda and Jenn discuss queer reads, graphic novels, management advice, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by our Mystery/Thriller giveaway, All That’s Dead by Stuart McBride, and Loki: Where Mischief Lies by Mackenzi Lee, read by Oliver Wyman. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback Here’s to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier Army by Carla Kelly (rec’d by Kate) Boom Town by Sam Anderson (rec’d by Miranda) I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong (rec’d by Miranda) How Not To Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg (rec’d by Miranda) Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho (rec’d by Miranda) Uprooted by Naomi Novik (rec’d by Miranda) The Tairen Soul series by C. L. Wilson (rec’d by Victoria) Books Discussed Confessions of Frannie L

Amanda and Jenn discuss spooky reads, books for teens, big city stories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by our Mystery/Thriller giveaway, Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, and Yale Needs Women by Anne Gardiner Perkins. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback thelesbianreview.com (rec’d by Anon) Happy All The Time by Laurie Colwin (rec’d by Kristin) Books Discussed Milkman by Anna Burns The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas (tw: disordered eating, self-harm, suicidal ideation, hazing) Sabriel by Garth Nix Hexed Vol. 1 by Michael Alan Nelson, Emma Rios, Dan Mora Rules of Civility by Amor Towles The Group by Mary McCarthy (tw: domestic violence, possibly others) The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine

Amanda and Jenn discuss fascinating nonfiction, plane reads, pioneer adventures, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by our Mystery/Thriller Giveaway, Recommended, and Forged Through Fire by Mark McDonough. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback The Alpennia series by Heather Rose Jones (rec’d by Jen) Outline Your Novel, Structuring Your Novel, and Creating Character Arcs by K. M. Weilan (rec’d by Victoria) Books On Immunity by Eula Biss The Nature Fix by Florence Williams The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton Record of a Spacebor

Amanda and Jenn discuss divorce reads, Latinx fiction, writing advice, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Libro.fm, and Crown of Coral and Pearl by Mara Rutherford. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback Bad Neighbor by Molly O’Keefe (rec’d by Diana) Lilah Pace’s duology Asking for It/Begging for It (rec’d by Diana) Cath Staincliffe (rec’d by Stephanie) Books On Writing by Stephen King Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (TW: violence against children) American Predator by Maureen Callahan (tw: home invasion) The Jade Peony by Wayson C

Amanda and Jenn discuss dark fiction, humorous SF/F, women breaking down barriers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh, and Blinkist. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James The Deepest Blue by Sarah Beth Durst Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker Documentary: SOMM Shoot Like a Girl by Mary Jennings Hegar (tw: sexual assault, family abuse, misogyny) Hegar’s viral ad Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, transl by Nancy Forest-Flier (TW: child abuse, violence) White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (tw: disordered eating, self-harm) Frida Kahlo and her Animalitos by Monica Brown Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

Amanda and Vanessa discuss Italian comics, paranormal smut, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Libro.fm and TBR. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed Everlasting Nora by Marie Miranda Cruz Juana and Lucas by Juana Medina Leading Men by Christopher Castellani Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee Lexicon by Max Barry Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann Recursion by Blake Crouch Catwoman: When in Rome by Jeph Loeb Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust, translated from Austrian by Kim Thompson TW: sexual assault A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos, transl by Hildegarde Serle The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi Finder by Suzanne Palmer The Sweetne

Amanda and Jenn discuss political nonfiction, twin stories, nonbinary reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Libro.fm and The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback Chloe Poems’s Li’l Book O’ Manchester (rec’d by Arlene) The Night Brother by Rosie Garland (rec’d by Arlene) Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North by Stuart Maconie (rec’d by Arlene) Books Discussed The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú Fire Season by Philip Connors Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith Pride by Ibi Zoboi Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (TW: sexual assault) The Tensorate series by JY Yang (Red Threads of Fortune #2) Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell Slayer by Kiersten White

Amanda and Jenn discuss chapter books about girls, thrillers, undersea stories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, One Good Deed by David Baldacci, and Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback Serial Killers: Murder Without Mercy by Nigel Blundell (rec’d by Sharon) Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik (rec’d by Sibyl) The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar (rec’d by Sibyl) Spoonbenders by Darryl Gregory (rec’d by Sibyl) The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (rec’d by Sibyl) Books Discussed My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar (tw: sexual assault) Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell Why B

Amanda and Jenn discuss travel reads, super creepy books, mysteries, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, Project Duchess by Sabrina Jeffries, and TBR. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback Starsight by Brandon Sanderson (rec’d by Elizabeth) Books Discussed Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas (tw: eating disorders, self-harm, suicidal ideation) The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars by Maurice Dekobra Everything Is Going to be Great by Rachel Shukert Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Dealing with Dragons by Patricia Wrede Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrande The Merry Spinster by Daniel Mallory Ortberg Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller Bluebird, Bluebird b

Amanda and Jenn discuss distracting reads, international parenting advice, Austen read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kimi Eisele, and Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback Sex With Shakespeare by Jillian Keenan (rec’d by Miranda) Disunity in Christ by Christena Cleveland (rec’d by Jessica) Oral History by Lee Smith (rec’d by Jena) Books Discussed Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Strabal Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble (tw: c

Jenn and Kelly discuss camping reads, transhumanist SF, healthy cookbooks, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, Green Chef, and The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed Frugal Vegan by Katie Koteen and Kate Kasbee The Love & Lemons Cookbook by Jeanine Donofrio Monster by Walter Dean Myers All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer Packing for Mars by Mary Roach The Lost City of Z by David Grann The Black Count by Tom Reiss The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer The River of Doubt by Candice Millard Feed by

Amanda and Jenn discuss audiobooks for the whole family, high-stakes sci-fi, experimental fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm audiobooks, Wicked Fox by Kat Cho, and Kingdom of Exiles by Maxim M. Martineau. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (rec’d by Miranda) American Fire by Monica Hesse (rec’d by Miranda) Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman (rec’d by Miranda) Books Discussed Renegades by Marissa Meyer For A Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White YS Lee Agency series (#1: A Spy in the House) The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart Dragon Pea

Amanda and Jenn discuss Norwegian authors, multigenerational family novels, thrillers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Guest Book by Sarah Blake and Audible. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback Eat Up by Ruby Tandoh (rec’d by Caroline) Books Discussed The Faster I Walk the Smaller I Am by Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, Kerri A. Pierce (Translator) The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdattar #1) by Sigrid Undset, translated by Tiina Nunnally My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (tw: incest and suicide) Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Post: Multigenerational Family Novels No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins Waiting in the Wings

Amanda and Jenn do another round of nonfiction questions this week on Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by All the Books, Re-entry by Peter Cawdron, and The Handmaid’s Tale: Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood, illustrated by Renee Nault. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed These Truths by Jill Lepore A World On Fire by Amanda Foreman (rec’d by Liberty) The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn Escape by Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott Empress by Ruby Lal Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty (YouTube: Ask a Mortician and Recommended) My Own Devices by Dessa (Recommended and TEDx) I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle

Amanda and Jenn discuss PNW stories, YA-friendly non-fiction, spare prose and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by All the Books and Cari Mora by Thomas Harris. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback Priceless by Robert K. Whittman (rec’d by Megan) Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm (rec’d by Sibyl) The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith (rec’d by Sibyl) Books Discussed The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee The Telling Room by Michael Paterniti The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook from America’s Test Kitchen Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World, edited by Kelly Jensen Beyoncé

Amanda and Jenn discuss comps for Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Audible, Rebel by Beverly Jenkins, and We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Dune by Frank Herbert (tw torture, child abuse) Jade City by Fonda Lee (tw: child abuse) The Acacia Series (The War With the Mein #1) by David Anthony Durham (tw: child slavery) The Machineries of Empire (Ninefox Gambit #1) by Yoon Ha Lee (tw: coercion, rape, body horror) Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey (tw: torture) The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons (tw: torture, slavery) SPOILERS FOR GOT 31-35:45h The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera (tw: torture, homophobia) The Poppy War by RF Kuang (tw: war crimes incl. rape, genocide, forced sterilization) A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna The Inheritance

Amanda and Jenn discuss funny book club picks, audiobooks in translation, historical fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Audible, Kingsbane by Claire Legrand and Birthday by Meredith Russo. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know by Retta My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows Boneshaker by Cherie Priest The Storm Runner by JC Cervantes Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark The Serious Game by Hjalmar Soderberg, trans by Eva Claeson Sisi series (The Accidental Empress #1) by Allison Pataki Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown You Too Can Have a Body

Amanda and Sharifah discuss heartbreaking YA, real-life heist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by PodX, Flatiron Books, and How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback For horror westerns: In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson, Hunger by Alma Katsu (rec’d by Emily) Books Discussed The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (TW gun violence) The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan (TW suicide) Passing Strange by Ellen Klages The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi (contributor) Aru Shah and