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Amanda and Jenn discuss poetry audiobooks like Lana Del Rey’s, heartwarming reads, mythology and war, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. 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 Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman (tw: for sexual assault and miscarriage) (rec’d by Margot) The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig (rec’d by Rose?) Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology, edited by Ann Vandermeer (rec’d by Stephanie) Books Discussed Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock (cw: so much violence and gore and weirdness) The Dime by Kathleen Kent The Longmire series by Craig Johnson (Cold Dish) The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Behold The Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Hunger Makes the Wolf b

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Wintering by Katherine May. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss the War of 1812, Muslim middle-grade reads, classics by women, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. 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 1812: The War that Forged a Nation by Walter R. Borneman Images of America: Prince George’s County, Maryland by Katharine D. Bryant and Donna L. Schneider Prince George’s County, Maryland (Black America Series) Girl Meets Duke series by Tessa Dare (The Duchess Deal) The Brothers Sinister series by Courtney Milan (The Duchess War) The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi More to the Story by Hena Khan Shepherd by Catherine Jinks (tw: many many many harms to animals) The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak 1) Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (tw: torture) A

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss romances WITH pining, some great picture books, uplifting and escapist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. 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 Mythos, Heroes, or Troy by Stephen Fry (rec’d by Alice) Books Discussed Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (tw: child abuse) All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (cw: sexual assault, death of animals) First Laugh: Welcome Baby by Rose Ann Tahe, Nancy Bo Flood, Jonathan Nelson Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao by Kat Zhang and Charlene Chua Island of the Sea Women by Lisa See The Man With the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi, translated by Darryl Sterk (cw: suicidal ideation, loss of a child) Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai How To Catch A Queen by Alyssa

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends God Land by Lyz Lenz. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss cozy murders, no pining, ending our productivity obsession, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. 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 Bunheads by Sophie Flack (rec’d by Caroline) My Casting Couch was too Short by Marion Dougherty (rec’d by Wynnde) Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, The Inheritance Trilogy by NK Jemisin, and The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie (rec’d by Cari) Books Discussed Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff A Separation by Katie Kitamura Off Base by Annabeth Albert (tw: homophobia) 40-Love by Olivia Dade (cw: mention of fatphobia) Murder at the Grand Raj Palace by Vaseem Khan Proper English by KJ Charles (cw: homophobia, racism) How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell  Can’t Even by Anne Helen Petersen A Peo

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore. 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. Books Discussed Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore (cw: PTSD, violent harm to women and children (and men, just everyone), rape, self-harm, suicide) Graceling, Fire, and Winterkeep Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss genre-benders, hopeful visions of the future, overlooked literary fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. 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 Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud and Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (rec’d by Kelly) Books Discussed Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty SFF Yeah episode on Genre-Blenders That Inevitable Victorian Thing by EK Johnston The Feminist Utopia Project, edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg The Mason House by T. Marie Bertineau (tw: domestic violence, alcoholism) The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix (Sabriel, Lireal) The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (tw: rape, racism, r

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss novels about ballerinas, career advice for the average Jane, gay vampires, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. 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 Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese (rec’d by Rebecca) Ann Patchett (rec’d by Wynnde) The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie (rec’d by Gina) Books Discussed Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipoitra and Dhonielle Clayton June by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Carrie Fisher (Postcards from the Edge, Princess Diarist) We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh (tw: self-harm, suicide, sexual assault, disordered eating) Can’t Even by Anne Hele

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Basic Witches by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss WWII historical fiction, soft boys in fiction, themes for reading in 2021, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. 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 Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole (cw: laced drink)  Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski The Summoner series by Taran Matharu The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi (tw: violent anti-Semitism; racism; child abuse) The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung (tw: rape) The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar (tw: sexual assault, violence towards refugees) How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee (tw: rape) Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie The Killing Moon by NK Jemisin (tw: harm to children) January, Learn

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and guest Jeff discuss books where the couple DOESN’T end up together, Indigenous reads, and pre-18th century history! 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 Wicked Plants and The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart (rec’d by Angie) BOOKS DISCUSSED How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell Grit by Angela Duckworth The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt The Water Dancer Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf The Eerie Elementary series by Jack Chabert, Sam Ricks (#1 The School is Alive!) Paper Girls The Yield by Tara June Winch (tw: child sexual abuse, racism) Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko Beloved by Toni Morrison (tw slavery, harm to children) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Sea People by Christina Thompson 1491

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Trejo’s Tacos: Recipes and Stories from LA by Danny Trejo with Hugh Garvey. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss non-Christmas holiday reads, African authors, dark histories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. 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 Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu and Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (rec’d by Rebecca) Born in Fire by K.F. Breene, Ilona Andrews, and Patricia Briggs (rec’d by Stephanie) Books Discussed My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb Snow in Love by Melissa de la Cruz et al Together at Midnight by Jennifer Castle (rec’d by Hey YA)  The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso (tw racism) The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (Zambia

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Intimations by Zadie Smith. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn answer holiday gift-giving questions in this week’s episode of Get Booked. 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 The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu The Answer Is by Alex Trebek Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Poppy War series by R.F. Kuang (ALL THE TRIGGER WARNINGS) Humankind by Rutger Bregman transl Elizabeth Manton and Erica Moore Braiding Sweetgrass, the gift edition, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, illustrated by Nate Christopherson The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Stephen Brusatte Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars by Kate Greene Reaching for the Moon by Katherine G. Johnson Outcasts United by Warren St. John (mention of violence against women and children) Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur Mang

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Can’t Escape Love by Alyssa Cole. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices