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Amanda and Jenn discuss body-positive health books, YA horror, unreliable narrators and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Amazon Kindle for Kids and Violet Grenade by Victoria Scott. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 Living With a Wild God by Barbara Ehrenreich Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry To the End of the Land by David Grossman, translated by Jessica Cohen The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Oreo by Fran Ross Every Body Yoga by Jessamyn Stanley Health At Every Size by Linda Bacon The Hallowed Ones by Lauren Bickle Slasher Girls & Monster Boys edited by April Genevieve Tucholke We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Debt to Pleasure

Amanda and Jenn discuss essay collections, historical fiction, personal favorites, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Carry On by Rainbow Rowell and The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen by Hope Nicholson. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (rec’d by Kathleen Keenan) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Sweet to the Taste by Alyssa Cole Penance by Kanae Minato, translated by Philip Gabriel What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi The Fire This Time, edited by Jesmyn Ward The Empathy Exams by Le

Amanda and Jenn discuss travelogues, tearjerkers, and books for kids with depression in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Elves, written by Jean-Luc Istin and illustrated by Kyko Duarte, and The Radium Girls by Kate Moore. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me by Maya Angelou Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor The Mothers by Brit Bennett The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrande Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps

Amanda and Jenn discuss nature reads, books about Iceland, sci-fi, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan The Wanderers by Meg Howrey Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman 100 Must Read Books About Books post An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott Rising Strong by Brené Brown Is Everyone

Amanda, Jenn, and guest expert Katie discuss mysteries and thrillers! This episode is sponsored by Start Up by Doree Shafrir and Perfect by Cecilia Ahern. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 Madame X by Jasinda Wilder The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough Jackaby series by William Ritter The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R King I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu Agatha Raisin series by M.C. Beaton (The Quiche of Death #1) The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi Night Film by Marisha Pessl You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott Infomocracy by Malka Older The Cutting Season by Attica Locke A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain

Amanda and Jenn discuss cookbooks, JFK, book group picks and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Post Grad by Caroline Kitchener and Kensington Books. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 The Death of a President, November 1963 by William Manchester The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ (rec’d by Romeo Rosales) Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee The Arrival by Shaun Tan My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki The Guide to Getting it On by Paul Joannides Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski GoodInBed.com A

Amanda and Jenn discuss deeply messed up books, body positive reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Falling Hard by Stacy Finz and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 9 Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah Maclean The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli (rec’d by Preeti) Zealot by Reza Aslan Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson Our Harsh Logic from Breaking the Silence Anything Chaim Potok (The Chosen) List of Jewish historical fiction not about the Holocaust The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Ninth City Burning by J Patrick Black Embassytown by China Mieville Gunpowder Alchemy by Jeannie Lin Everfair by Nisi Shawl Asking For It by L

Amanda and Jenn discuss books on grief and mortality, chapter books, personal favorites and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Only A Mistress Will Do by Jenna Jaxon and The Baker Street Four from Insight Editions. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 Lost Stars by Claudia Gray Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz Mama Day by Gloria Naylor (original rec from Nisi Shawl) The Mysterious Moonstone by Eric Luper Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown The Hour of the Land by Terry Tempest Williams Desert Notes by Barry Lopez Grief is a Thing With Feathers by Max Porter Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Bestiary by Donika Kelly Smith Blue by Camille T. Dungy Guidebook to Relative Strangers (June

Amanda and Jenn discuss Glasgow lit, books for understanding the American political right, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Yvain: The Knight of the Lion by M.T. Anderson, and His Alone by Alexa Riley. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 No Mean City by A. McArthur and H. Kingsley Long Lanark by Alasdair Gray Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild Done Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton A-Force Vol 0: Warzones by G Willow Wilson, Marguerite Bennet, Jorge Molina Womanthology: Space, edited by Mariah Huehner The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Wintersong by S Jae -Jones Barnheart

Amanda and Jenn discuss LGBT+ history, prickly Westerns, experimental prose and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Playster and You Are Here by Jenny Lawson. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 HIV/AIDS Reading List by Rah Carter Scarlet Ribbons: A Priest with AIDS by Rosemary Bailey The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS by Rah Carter Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (Bas-Lag series) Time Salvager by Wesley Chu Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue Deconnick, Emma Rios Doc by Mary Doria Russell Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Room by Emma Donoghue In Her Own Sweet Time by Rachel

Amanda and Jenn discuss retellings of classics, San Francisco fiction, westerns, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Book That Made Me. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 Great by Sara Benincasa The Wrath & The Dawn by Renee Ahdieh San Francisco Noir from Akashic Books All The Birds In The Sky by Charlie Jane Anders The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Allison Markin Powell The Sisters Brothers by Patrick De Witt Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Kraken by China Miéville The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Bone and Bread by Saleema Nawaz Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Sofia Samatar (A Stranger in Olondria and Winged Histories) Everfair by Nisi Shawl The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michae

Amanda and Jenn discuss Brazilian fiction, nature stories, urban fantasy, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco and Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 City of God by Paulo Lins, translated by Alison Entrekin The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane Americatown by Bradford Winters and Larry Cohen Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Shadow Hero) In the Woods by Tana French Grania by Morgan Llywelyn The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles Bone Street Rumba series by Daniel Jose Older (Half-Resurrection Blues) We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit T

Jenn and guest host Preeti Chhibber discuss kids and YA recommendations in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Support Get Booked by taking our audience survey. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 The Savage Fortress (Ash Mistry #1) by Sarwat Chadda Diane Duane’s Young Wizard series (So You Want to Be a Wizard #1) Mike Lupica Ghost by Jason Reynolds My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner Star-Crossed by Barbara Dee (forthcoming March 14, 2017) Ask the Passengers by AS King The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Choksi Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza Amulet series (The Stone Keeper #1) by Kazu Kibuishi The Percy Jackson series graphic novels (The Lightning Thief #1) by Rick Riordan

Amanda and Jenn discuss place-based narratives, women breaking barriers, and books set in Vancouver in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Carina Press, publisher of Rough and Tumble by Rhenna Morgan. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 Rabbit Ears by Maggie De Vries (recommended by Brenna) The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland (recommended by Brenna) How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir by Amber Dawn Better Living Through Plastic Explosives by Zsuzsi Gartner The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (“On Marriage”) Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (for example, this quote) Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed (particularly Like An Iron Bell) I Married You For Happiness by Lily Tuck Reading Lolita in Tehran by

Amanda and Jenn discuss crime families, nonbinary characters, conspiracy theories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by In The Club, Book Riot’s book groups newsletter. 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 Dune by Frank Herbert The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman The Acacia series (The War With the Mein #1) by David Anthony Durham The Worldbreaker Saga (The Mirror Empire #1) by Kameron Hurley Hold Me by Courtney Milan Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender by Nick Krieger Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson Every Day by David Levithan Hot Season by Susan DeFreitas The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth Adaptation by Malinda Lo 20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Nerud

Amanda and Jenn discuss the Singularity, Russian nonfiction, and novels about platonic friendships in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by A Tragic Kind of Wonderful by Eric Lindstrom and The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom. 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 Katie Macbride’s post: Required Reading for Understanding WTF Is Happening In Russia Molly Wetta’s post!: A Russian History Reading List Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Bela Shayevich The Man Without a Face by Masha Gessen Pushkin’s Children by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambell The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky, translated by Tim Mohr The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

Amanda and Jenn discuss books about Africa, non-NBA basketball reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This week’s episode is sponsored by the Book Riot Store and the Swords & Spaceships newsletter. 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 Oneida by Ellen Wayland-Smith (rec’d by Liberty) Lexicon by Max Barry An Autobiography by Angela Davis The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated by Roland Glasser Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Mighty Be Our Powers by Leymah Gbowee King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild The Crossover by Kwame Alexander Hoops by Walter Dean Myers The Whore of Akron by Scott Raab Indentured by Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss (rec’d by Rachel Manwill) Dust Bowl Girls by Lydia Reeder (rec’d by Jess Pryde) Rain Wild Chronicles (Dragon Keeper #1)

Amanda and Jenn discuss books for grieving, romantic comedies, ADHD reading and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Ecco, publisher of Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson and our Romance mailbag giveaway. 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 The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum Blue Nights by Joan Didion The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith The Long Goodbye by Meghan O’Rourke Ghost World by Daniel Clowes Julie and Julia by Julie Powell Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Her Halloween Treat by Tiffany Reisz (Men At Work series) Alice Clayton’s Cocktail series (Wallbanger #1) Touched by an Alien by Gini Koch (Katherine “Kitty” Katt series) How the Duke Was Won by Lenora Bell (Disgraceful Dukes series) Impossible Bachelors s

Amanda and special guest Rachel Smalter Hall recommend audiobooks for every occasion in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Once We Were Sisters by Sheila Kohler and Penguin Random House Audio. 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 The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel The Collected Sherlock Holmes! The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Barkskins by Annie Proulx To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert Sweetland by Michael Crummey Flannery O’Connor Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova Winesburg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson A Tale for

Amanda and Jenn discuss England-y books, battling baby-fever, horror novels, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and Get Your Sh*t Together by Sarah Knight. 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 Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Agorafabulous by Sara Benincasa The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan Magpie Lord by KJ Charles The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper White Teeth by Zadie Smith Redefining Realness by Janet Mock Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny The Feminist Utopia Project edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Sharp Objects by Gillian