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Amanda and Jenn discuss college novels, urban fantasy, short audiobooks and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall and The X-Files Origins. 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 Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando The Princess Bride by William Goldman Grit by Angela Duckworth A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen, transl by Lola Rogers Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea anything by Mohsin Hamid (How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia) Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Angel’s Blood by Nalini Singh Signal to Noise by S

Amanda and Jenn discuss mysteries, adoption reading, parenting memoirs, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by our $250 B&N gift card giveaway and the Read Harder Challenge for 2017. 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 My Life in France by Julia Child The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub Voracious by Cara Nicoletti 7 by Jen Hatmaker Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott Holy Is the Day by Carolyn Weber (recommended by Kate Scott) Jesus As Mother by Caroline Walker Bynum (recommended by Kristen McQuinn) A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Livia Day, Cafe La Femme series (A Trifle Dead) Attica Locke, Jay Porter series (Black Water Rising) After Birth by Elisa Albert Snow Flower and

Amanda and Jenn discuss witchy reads, nonfiction, WWII novels, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by TryAudiobooks.com and Comic Bento. 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 Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers MTV’s Teen Wolf Fire by Kristin Cashore The Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan American Gods by Neil Gaiman A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery Contact by Carl Sagan Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Old Man’s War Series by John Scalzi The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson The Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi Terry Tempest Williams (Finding Beauty in a Broken World, The Hour of Land) What Are People For by Wendell

Amanda and Jenn discuss food memoirs, satires, books to build empathy, and more on this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Madison Reed and Comic Bento. 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 Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan The Happy Vegan by Russell Simmons Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer Pigs Can’t Swim by Helen Peppe A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas East of Eden by John Steinbeck Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter Honey, Olives, Octopus by Christopher Bakken Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri (The Shape of Water) This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart The Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood and Rena

Amanda and Jenn discuss eerie books, mysteries, light-hearted reads and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This week’s episode is sponsored by Searching for John Hughes by Jason Diamond and Playster. 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 Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Southern Reach series) Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris The Girl Before by Rena Olsen How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman Laura by Vera Caspary Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante Squirrel Girl by Ryan North and Erica Henderson A Seamless Murder by Melissa Bourbon Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky C

Amanda and Jenn discuss books to read post-election to feel better, to educate, and to get motivated. This week’s episode is sponsored by Madison Reed and Swoon Reads. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle The Agency Series by Y.S. Lee (A Spy in the House) Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova Iron Cast by Destiny Soria Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro Sins of a Wicked Duke by Sophie Jordan Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex Turbulence by Samit Basu Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev The Noble Hustle by Colson Whitehead They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery Pro by Katha Pollitt Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Evicted by Matthew Desmond White Trash by Nancy Isenberg Incarceration Nations by Baz Dreisinger The Feminist Utopia Project edited by Alexandra Brodsky

This episode was recorded at Book Riot Live! Amanda, Jenn, and guest author Jade Chang talk dance novels, weird short stories, and more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Madison Reed and Swoon Reads. 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 Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary by Keshni Kashyap and Mari Araki Listen, Slowly by Thanhha Lai The Man With Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offil Sophie Calle Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston The Longshot by Katie Kitamura Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck Veronica by Mary Gaitskill Swing Time by Zadie Smith Pointe by Brandy Colbert The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma Madeleine is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum We Show What We Have Learned by Clare Beams Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino Working by Studs

Amanda and Jenn discuss family novels, wintry sci-fi/fantasy, dad books and more on this week’s episode of Get Booked. This week’s episode is sponsored by Madison Reed and Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee. 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 Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique The Wangs vs the World by Jade Chang Shelter by Jung Yun Stiff by Mary Roach An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield Blink by Malcolm Gladwell Muhammad Ali: Through the Eyes of the World, edited by Mark Collins Zone One by Colson Whitehead The Dog Stars by Peter Heller The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker The Chimes by Anna Smaill The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater Chimera by David Wellington The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper Bill Bryson (In a Sunburned Co

Amanda and Jenn discuss steampunk, Native American authors, and great series on this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Madison Reed and Swoon Reads. 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 Everfair by Nisi Shawl Boneshaker by Cherie Priest Half-Made World by Felix Gilman Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko One Native Life by Richard Wagamese http://www.firstnations.org/books Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield The Bone People by Keri Hulme Come On Shore and We Will Kill You and Eat You All by Christina Thompson Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz Eight Feet in the Andes by Dervla Murphy Crocodile o

Amanda and Jenn discuss audiobooks for kids, debut fiction, and overlooked classics on this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Deadly Silence by Rebecca Zanetti and Playster. 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 11 Most Recommended Books from Get Booked’s First Year The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden, narrated by Tony Shalhoub The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, narrated by Michael York The Turner House by Angela Flournoy Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer All the Birds Singing by Evie Wyld We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo An Affair

Amanda and Jenn discuss tattooed women, election reading, Veronica Mars read-alikes, and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Wonder Women by Sam Maggs and Deadly Silence by Rebecca Zanetti. 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 Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro The Hunter Kiss series by Marjorie Liu (The Iron Hunt #1) Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling Primary Colors by Anonymous (Joe Klein) Infomocracy by Malka Older The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Relish by Lucy Knisley Voracious by Cara Nicoletti Heirloom: Notes From an Accidental Tomato Farmer by Tim Stark The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber (rec’d by Swapna) Scarlett Undercover by Jennifer Latham Batgirl Vol 1 by C

Amanda, Jenn, and guest author Ausma Zehanat Khan answer your mystery/thriller questions! This episode is sponsored by Only The Dead Know Burbank by Bradford Tatum. 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: The Lamorna Wink by Martha Grimes Night Film by Marisha Pessl Still Life by Louise Penny (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1) Cutting Season by Attica Locke Someone To Watch Over Me by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Cara Black’s Aimee Leduc mysteries (Murder in the Marais #1) Dialogues of the Dead and Death’s Jest by Reginald Hill The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell (Kay Scarpetta series #1) Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George When In Rome by Ngaio Marsh Smaller and Smaller Circles by FH Batacan Stolen Lives by Jassy Mackenzie Sara Selkirk series by Morag Joss (Funeral Music #1) Crooked Letter, Croo

Amanda and Jenn discuss communism in books, horror short-stories, veterinary memoirs, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audiobooks and Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig. 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 Princess in Black by Shannon Hale Olivia the Pig series by Ian Falconer When You’re Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads by Barbara Luke and Tamara Eberlein Feminist picture book post by Brandi Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers, Marla Frazee Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright Communism: A Very Short Introduction by Leslie Holmes Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990 by Vaclav Havel, transl. Paul Wilson If Wishes Were Horses by Loretta Gage A

Amanda and Jenn discuss road trip audiobooks, quirky short stories, dystopian novels, and more on this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo and The Lovely Reckless by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kami Garcia. 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 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Bellwether by Connie Willis Wild by Cheryl Strayed Split by Suzanne Finnamore A Day With Dad by Bo Holmberg Two Homes by Claire Masurel Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes I Thought It Was Just Me by Brené Brown The Family Book by Todd Parr The Invisible String by Patrice Karst The Rook by Daniel O’Malley Bird Box by Josh Malerman Stories of Your

Amanda and Jenn discuss fall books, science & technology history, novels about cults, and more on this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by What the Dickens?! by Bryan Kozlowski and The Case of the Defunct Adjunct by Frankie Bow. 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 Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry The Secret History by Donna Tartt Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Pandemic by Sonia Shah Grunt by Mary Roach I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud Girls From Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe (recommended by Rachel Fershleiser) Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (recommended by Rachel

Amanda and Jenn discuss graphic novels, books set on beaches, Thai authors, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Spontaneous by Aaron Starmer and Penguin Random House Audio Book Clubs. 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 Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North and Erica Henderson March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell Fresh Romance Vol. 1 by Kate Leth, Sarah Kuhn, et al The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han The Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki The Summer Book by Tove Jansson Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey Angel’s Blood by Nalini Singh About a Girl by Sarah McCarry book (and then that whole Metamorphoses series) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemis

Amanda and Jenn talk novels about novels, “clean” romance, post-surgery reads, and more on this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Spontaneous by Aaron Starmer and The Ones by Daniel Sweren-Becker. 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 Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine S. by JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst The Children’s Book by AS Byatt Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee The Leviathan series (Leviathan, #1) by Scott Westerfeld Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila (trans by Roland Glasser) The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn Gun Machine by Warren Ellis Lord Fenton’s Folly by Josi S. Kilpack (rec’d by Amanda Diehl) Of Love and War Series (H

Amanda and guest Rincey recommend New York novels, biographies of people of color, and more on this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by The Call by Peadar O’Guilin and The Unseen World by Liz Moore. 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 Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller I Don’t Know What You Know Me From by Judy Greer The Stepmothers’ Support Group by Sam Baker 100 Must Read NYC Novels Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina Rules of Civility by Amor Towles A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Sophia by Anita Anand Frida by Hayden Herrera The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings Longbourn by Jo Baker Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean

Amanda and Jenn recommend hard sci-fi, darkly humorous fiction, personal finance books, and more on this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by The Call by Peadar O’Guilin and Still a Work in Progress by Jo Knowles. 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 Fever by Megan Abbott The Stand by Stephen King Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness Jessica Jones: Alias Vol 1 by Brian Michael Bendis Out by Natsuo Kirino Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell Swamplandia! by Karen Russell The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, trans by Ken Liu Time Salvagers by Wesley Chu The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee I’ll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin “not Murakami” picks from Episode 38 The Birth of

Amanda and Jenn recommend memoirs, very short books, adventure stories, and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Furious Rush by S. C. Stephens and Reco. 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 Negroland by Margo Jefferson Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Take This Man by Brando Skyhorse Fire Season by Philip Connors Code Talker by Chester Nez Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Beating Back the Devil by Maryn McKenna My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Selmair Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley We the Animals by Justin Torres The Devourers by Indra Das Serpentine by Cindy Pon Infomocracy by Malka Older Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson Summer an