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Amanda and Jenn recommend short stories on audiobook, poetry collections for beginners, and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TryAudiobooks.com and Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam. 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! North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell Tor.com Collection: Season 1 Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Ariel by Sylvia Plath Billy Collins Dispatch from the Future by Leigh Stein Life on Mars by Tracy K Smith The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman A Good American by Alex George Life after Life by Kate Atkinson The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Being Mortal by Atul Gawande The Republic of Imagination by Azar N

Amanda and Jenn recommend fairy tales for grown-ups, examinations of marriage (with rage-filled lady protagonists), and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Live and the Start Here 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! Where’d You Go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi Gemma Bovary by Posy Simmonds Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel by Anya Ulinich Jem and the Holograms Vol. 1: Showtime Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust, translated by Kim Thompson A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Think of England by KJ Charles Edinburgh by Alexander Chee, trigger warning for child molestation The Lacuna by B

Amanda and Jenn recommend witchy fiction, books for Downton Abbey fans, and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina and the Start Here 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! Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen Coffin Hill Vol 1 by Caitlin Kittredge, Iñaki Miranda Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood The Magicians by Lev Grossman All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders Deborah Harkness’s All Souls series Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes  Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Longbourn by Jo Baker Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee Anything by Bill Bryson Sto

Amanda and Jenn recommend horror, Nancy Drew read-a-likes for grownups, and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Burning Glass by Kathryn Purdie and A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro. 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! Bird Box by Josh Malerman Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due Horror episode! Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes Hexed by Michael Alan Nelson Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers and Marla Frazee Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match by Monica Brown and Sara Palacios Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt de la Pena Sabriel by Garth Nix The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen Graceling by Kristin Cashore Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley Ausma Zehanat Khan’s mystery seri

Amanda and Jenn recommend books about space, modern Westerns, and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Burning Glass by Kathryn Purdie and A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro. 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! Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Commander Hadfield Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson The Mercury 13 by Martha Ackmann Everything Leads to You by Nina Lacour The Superheroes Union: Dynama by Ruth Diaz (rec’d by Amanda Diehl) My Real Children by Jo Walton Safe Harbor by Radclyffe Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor Mort(e) by Robert Repino The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (rec’d by Alison) Hanzai Japan edited by Haikasor

Amanda and Jenn recommend literary mysteries, fantasy romance, self-help for creative types, and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Steamy Reading Box and Book Riot Live. 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! Inclusive mysteries Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin Round House by Louise Erdrich Burial Rites, Hannah Kent The Secret History of Las Vegas, Chris Abani Graceling by Kristin Cashore The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The Magician’s Guild by Trudi Canavan For Love and Liberty: Untold Love Stories of the American Revolution Anthology Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (rec’d by Jess Pryde) Back Bay by William Martin (rec’d by Wallace) Revolutionary, Alex Myers Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert Bird by Bird by Anne Lamo

Amanda and Jenn recommend works of magical realism, portal fantasy, epic sweeping family sagas, and more! This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Steamy Reading Box and Book Riot Live. 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 on the Show! Half Resurrection Blues by DJ Older The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende War for the Oaks, Emma Bull Palimpsest, Catherynne Valente Sarah McCarry’s YA series, All Our Pretty Songs The Son by Philipp Meyer 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Sacred Games, Vikram Chandra White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Young Women, Old Houses post The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe The Unicorn, Iris Murdoch The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Amanda and guest co-host Liberty recommend short story collections, WWII nonfiction, and more. 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 on the Show! A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley Curse of the Narrows by Laura M. Mac Donald The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (May 3) Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Tanarive Due Clariel (Garth Nix Abhorsen series) Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Lonesome Dove Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege by Antony Beevor The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi

Jenn and Amanda recommend diverse classics, quiet middle America stories, and more! This episode is sponsored by Murder on Wheels by Lynn Cahoon 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 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard anything by Willa Cather Half an Inch of Water by Percival Everett Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Alexandre Dumas (black), Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde (LGBTQ), Tale of Genji 1001 Nights by Anonymous The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin Clotel: Or the President’s Daughter by William Wells Brown Round House by Louise Erdrich The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor anything by Sherman Alexie The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson Ready Player One by Ernest Cline The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia Pym b

We’re talking modern gothic novels, religious nonfiction, books for escapism, and more. Enjoy! This episode is sponsored by Tryaudiobooks.com and Book Riot Live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking hard boiled detective stories, cookbooks, West Wing read-a-likes, and more! This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Live and the Book Riot Store. 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 Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters Smaller and Smaller Circles by FH Batacan Hex by Maggie Estep The Vaults by Toby Ball Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree Drummond The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman Smitten Kitchen by Deb Perelman Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique Empire of Blue Water by Stephan Talty The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Into the Wild by John Krakauer The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin The Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy Radiance by Catherynne Valente Space Chronicles by Neil Degrasse Tyson Political campaign novels post: /genre-kryptonite-pol

Amanda and Jenn recommend books to read after college, what to read to fill the void left by The Night Circus, and more. This episode is sponsored by Jakob’s Colors by Lindsay Hawdon and the Book Riot Store. 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 Adulting by Kelly Williams Brown Getting Things Done by David Allen The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag by Jolie Kerr Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay The Quick by Lauren Owen Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord Moods by Yoel Hoffmann (transl. Peter Cole) Nowhere to be Found by Bae Suah (transl. Sora Kim-Russell) Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin (New Directions Pearls) The

Welcome to Episode 10! Jenn Northington is back as my permanent co-host as we take the show weekly! *confetti cannon* This week we’re talking books to read after losing someone to suicide, modern works in translation, and more. This episode is sponsored by The Lady’s Command by Stephanie Laurens and The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed on the Show! The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn Arcadia by Tom Stoppard Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Nick Harkaway (The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, Tigerman) How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu anything Christopher Moore (Dirty Job is my personal favorite) The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekback The Keepe

Welcome to Episode 9, our second episode all about holiday gift giving recommendations! I brought Jenn Northington back to be my guest host for this one because she’s a book recommendation MACHINE, I tell you. Jenn is our Events Director here at Book Riot, cohost of the Bookrageous podcast, part-time bookseller at Word, and member of five book groups. Find her on Twitter @jennIRL. This episode is sponsored by the Book Riot Quarterly Box and YA Quarterly Box. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed on the Show! Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (for discussion) Old Man’s War by John Scalzi Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho China Mieville, Embassytown Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera The Body Where I Was Born by Guadalupe Nettel Terra Nostra, Carlos Fuentes Clandestine in Chile, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a report, written by Gabriel García Márquez Saga Vol 1. by Brian K

Welcome to Episode 8, all about holiday gift giving recommendations! I brought Jenn Northington back to be my guest host for this one because she’s a book recommendation MACHINE, I tell you. Jenn is our Events Director here at Book Riot, cohost of the Bookrageous podcast, part-time bookseller at Word, and member of five book groups. Find her on Twitter @jennIRL. This episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and DK’s Holiday Gift Generator. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed on the Show! Penguin Drop Caps or the Clothbound Coralie Bickford-Smith collection Peter Sis’s illustration of The Conference of the Birds The Graphic Canon Stiff by Mary Roach The Skeleton Crew by Deborah Halber K Blows Top by Peter Carlson The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Louise Erdrich’s Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country A Good American by Alex Georg

Welcome to Episode 7! This episode is all about kid lit, middle grade, and YA, so I invited in kid lit expert Karina Yan Glaser. Karina has had a varied career teaching and implementing literacy programs in family homeless shelters and recruiting healthcare professionals to volunteer in under resourced areas around the world. She is currently a contributing editor at Book Riot and an advocate for literacy in low-income neighborhoods in New York City. Follow her on Twitter @KarinaYanGlaser. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed on the Show! I Am Scout by Charles Shields  I Am Malala (young reader’s edition) by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson The Boys in the Boat (Young Reader’s Edition) by Daniel James Brown Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson Holes by Louis Sachar Ungifted by Gordon Korman The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger The Girl who Circumnavigate

Welcome to Episode 6, recorded LIVE at Book Riot Live! This episode is all about romance, and my guest is New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Sarah MacLean. MacLean is the author of historical romances and a monthly romance review column at The Washington Post celebrating the best of the romance genre. She is the recipient of back-to-back RITA Awards for Best Historical Romance of the Year from the Romance Writers of America. This episode is sponsored by Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed on the Show! The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley  Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev A Bed of Spices by Barbara Samuel Balogh’s Survivors Club Series, Kinsale’s Flowers From the Storm, Morsi’s Simple Jess Historical: Think of England by KJ Charles  Contemporary: Kate Meader’s Hot in Chicago Series Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas For Love and Liberty a

Welcome to Episode 5! This episode is about a mish-mash of genres, so I brought on a hella knowledgable bookseller who can handsell anything to help me! Hannah Oliver Depp is a bookseller and the Merchandise Display Manager at Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, DC. as well as a contributor to Book Riot and LitHub. She teaches classes at Politics & Prose on re-imaginings of archetypal characters, from King Arthur to Sherlock Holmes. Her job allows her to combine her two passions: psychoanalyzing dead white guys and putting diverse stories into their bewildered descendants hands. If you’re in the DC area come to the Read Harder book club at Upshur St Books where she and fellow rioters gather once a month to drink wine and talk all things bookish. She can be found everywhere online as @oliverdepp. This episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and ROOM the movie. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed

Welcome to Episode 4! This episode is about all things horror, so I’ve brought in an amazing horror expert, librarian Becky Spratford. Becky is a Readers’ Advisor in Illinois specializing in serving patrons ages 13 and up. She runs the critically acclaimed RA training blog RA for All and it’s evil twin sister RA for All: Horror and is on the Steering Committee of the Adult Reading Round Table. Becky is also known for her work with horror readers as the author of The Reader’s Advisory Guide to Horror, Second Edition [ALA Editions, 2012] and is a proud member of the Horror Writers Association. You can follow Becky on Twitter @RAforAll.  This episode is sponsored by We’ll Never Be Apart by Emiko Jean and the Room movie. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed on the Show! Night Film by Marisha Pessl Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer Coraline by Neil Gaiman The Caretaker of Lorne Field by Dave Zeltersman The Keep by Jenn

Welcome to Episode 3! This week’s episode is about all things LGBTQ literature (with a few bonus questions from listeners on a time crunch). My guest this week is Danika Ellis. Danika runs the lesbian and bisexual women book blog The Lesbrary as well as its tumblr counterpart Fuck Yeah Lesbian Literature. She is also a booktuber and Book Riot contributor. Her day job is running the kids’ section of Russell Books, the largest used bookstore in Canada. Follow her on Twitter @DanikaEllis. This episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and Only Ever Yours by Louise O’Neill. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed on the Show! Nevada by Imogen Binnie Burnt Toast B&B by Heidi Belleau and Rachel Hamowitz Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kristin Cronn-Mills George by Alex Gino The Collection edited by Tom Leger Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey “Lizzy & Annie”/A Safe Girl To Love by Casey Plett“ The Unintentional T