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As we conclude the 7-year-long (!) experiment that has been Get Booked, Jenn takes a moment to look back and share some numbers! MOST RECOMMENDED AUTHORS: Kate Atkinson Jade Chang Yaa Gyasi RF Kuang CL Polk Sarah McCarry Celeste Ng Check out our other podcasts at bookriot.com/listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, “That Charcuterie Chick” Olivia Carney recommends a a summer fav, a cookbook, and one from the top of her TBR. Follow 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 The Art of the Board by Olivia Carney Book Lovers by Emily Henry Half Baked Harvest by Tieghan Gerard Gouda Friends by Cathy Yardley Find Olivia Carney on Instagram and TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and Vanessa discuss scary books, stories about friendships, LGBTQ+ resources, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For a full list of questions, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. FEEDBACK The Paper Chase by John Jay Osborn Jr. Common Goal by Rachel Reid BOOKS DISCUSSED The Black Phone by Joe Hill Ju-On by Kei Ohishi Seeing Gender by Iris Gottlieb Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría Hudes (cw: animal death, mentions of disordered eating, child abuse, and addiction) Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth (cw: child abuse, slavery, child death, intimate partner violence) How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz (cw: homophobia, partner abuse) Witches of New York by Ami McKay (cw: witch-hunt related violence) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, author and influencer Danielle Prescod talks about three of her recent favorite reads. Follow 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: Token Black Girl by Danielle Prescod Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski (and Burnout) Tanqueray by Stephanie Johnson with Brandon Stanton Find Danielle on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, The Kiss Curse author Erin Sterling (a.k.a. Rachel Hawkins) recommends some spooky reads as we dream of Fall. Follow 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: The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling (The Ex Hex) The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen BOOKS MENTIONED: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Lana Harper (The Witches of Thistle Grove) Ann Aguirre (Fix-It Witches) Not Your Average Hot Guy and Mr and Mrs Witch by Gwenda Bond Not the Witch You Wed by April Asher My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine (June 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, human rights laywer and author Julian Aguon recommends some of the books that have helped him during the pandemic. Follow 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: No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies by Julian Aguon Sharks In the Time of Saviors by Kawaii Strong Washburn How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit The Red Deal by the Red Nation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and Danika continue fine-tuning Human vs. Algorithm, with recs for Stranger Things read-alikes, law school (kind of), queer Berlin, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For a complete list of the questions discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed (rec’d by Cassie) Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean Buffalo Is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, debut author Carolyn Huynh recommends three books about the lives of women, each with their own angle. Follow 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 The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huyhn The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang The Vegetarian by Han Kang The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin Find her online at Twitter and Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, You’re Invited author Amanda Jayatissa recommends three recent thrillers she could not put down. Follow 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 You’re Invited by Amanda Jayatissa Things We Do In The Dark by Jennifer Hillier The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead Someone Else’s Life by Lyn Liao Butler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and Erica dive into the first-ever Human vs. Algorithm, looking for recs for romance, comfort reads, Queen’s Gambit read-alikes, and more. Follow 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 a complete list of the questions discussed in this episode, visit our website. BOOKS DISCUSSED A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria The Lucky Escape by Laura Jane Williams Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (cw: mention of child abuse, assault, transphobia, and racism) Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya Jada Jones: Rock Star by Kelly Starling Lyons and Vanessa Brantley-Newton Wedgie & Gizmo by Suzanne Selfors, illustrated by Barbara Fisinger The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach (he/him) (cw: gore, body horror, institutionalized homophobia) Stolen Focus by Johann Hari Murderbot by Martha Wells Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology by Vince A. Liaguno, Rena Mason Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Spider-Man’s Social Dilemma author Preeti Chhibber recommends some of her favorite comics! Follow 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 Spider-Man’s Social Dilemma by Preeti Chhibber Spidey Vol. 1: First Day (Robbie Thompson / Nick Bradshaw) Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal (G. Willow Wilson, Sana Amanat, Adrian Alphona) Green Lantern: Legacy (Minh Lê/Andie Tong) Drawn Together, Minh Le & Dan Santat DC vs Vampires Vol. 1 (James Tynion IV, Matthew Rosenberg, Otto Schmidt) Avengers Assembly by Preeti Chhibber Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and special guest and librarian Emily Pullen dig into reading recommendation algorithms, how they work (and don’t work), and what it means for our Get Booked experiment in this bonus episode. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. LINKS AND BOOKS NoveList StoryGraph Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil What We Do We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart Solito by Javier Zamora Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and Vanessa announce an exciting experiment and ponder the evolution of the Get Booked feed in this Very Special Episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Life’s Work by Willie Parker. Follow 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 Amanda’s new job (!), Murakami read-alikes, the perfect plane read, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Molly Harper’s Bluegrass Series (rec’d by another Amanda) Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell (rec’d by Tanelle) Books Discussed What’s Left of Me is Yours by Stephanie Scott (tw: violence against women) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid The Change by Kirsten Miller (tw: childhood sex abuse, obvious references to the Epstein/Maxwell case) Light Years From Home by Mike Chen (cw: dementia, loss of a parent) Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark Everfair by Nisi Shawl (cw: graphic violence and war crimes, racism) Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward (tw: suicide) House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild Haldol and Hyacinths by Melody Moezzi (tw: suicide attempts) For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag Post: Books Like Heartstopper Fence by C.S. Pacat, Johanna the Mad, Joana LaFuente, and Jim Campbell For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo. Follow 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 give some recommendations for AAPI Heritage Month in this week’s special themed episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Fill out our listener survey and be entered to win a $50 gift card to the indie bookstore of your choice! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo (out in July 2022) Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang (tw: racially motivated violence) IQ by Joe Ide The Verifiers by Jane Pek (cw: discussion of suicide) The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez (cw: child abuse) Intimacies by Katie Kitamura Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao (tw: child abuse) Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden (tw: addiction) Sonali Dev’s The Rajes series (cw: lots of trauma and angst) Gearbreakers & Godslayers (out June 28) by Zoe Hana Mikuta Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport(cw: violence against women and children incl. rape and abuse, racial slurs, violent racism, and basically everything else you can think of) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Open by Rachel Krantz. Follow 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 complicated relationships, summer books, shocking twists, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Fill out our listener survey and be entered to win a $50 gift card to the indie bookstore of your choice! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Feedback Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall (rec’d by Mel) Prosperity series by Alexis Hall (Jenn cannot believe she forgot!) Books Discussed Serena Singh Flips the Script by Sonya Lalli (tw domestic violence) Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (cw: alcohol abuse) The Guncle by Steven Rowley Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers (cw: anxiety) The Guest List by Lucy Foley (tw extreme bullying) The Old Woman With the Knife by Gu Byeong-Mo with Chi-Young Kim (cw: harm to women and children, death of an animal) The Expatriates by Janice YK Lee We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (cw: animal death, harm to children) The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (cw: sooooo much body horror and gore) Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar (cw: harm to children, sexual assault) The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black (The Cruel Prince) A post! Books Like A Court of Thorns and Roses Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr (cw: drug use, coercion, probably things I don’t remember) For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis. Follow 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 actionable activism, romances with elves, unrequited love, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Fill out our listener survey and be entered to win a $50 gift card to an indie bookstore! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Feedback Night Boat to Tangier and That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry; The Heart’s Invisible Furies and Shuggie Bain (rec’d by Elizabeth) Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World and A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon (rec’d by Amber) The Guest List by Lucy Foley (rec’d by Becky)
Books Discussed In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (tw: domestic abuse) Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons by Marilyn Hacker (sample poem) Uptown Thief by Aya de Leon Travelers Along The Way by Aminah Mae Safi Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim (tw: rape) Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju Bonus TV rec: Our Beloved Summer on Netflix side character, from Jamie Geekerella by Ashley Poston The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad Elvish by SG Prince Witchmark by CL Polk (cw: PTSD, harm to women and children)
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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. Follow 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 spies in romance, books like Our Flag Means Death, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. FEEDBACK Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Alison Pataki, and By Any Other Name by Lauren Kate BOOKS DISCUSSED American Marriage by Tayari Jones (tw: sexual assault, racism) The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson (cw: drug use, sexual assault, violence, racism) Books Like “Our Flag Means Death”: https://bookriot.com/our-flag-means-death-books/ On a Lee Shore by Elin Gregory In Deeper Waters by FT Lukens Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov, Scott Duane, et al The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (tw: child sexual abuse, human trafficking) Always Only You by Chloe Liese Gamechanger by LX Beckett (they/them) American War by Omar El Akkad Veronica Speedwell series by Deanna Raybourn Sarah MacLean’s Bareknuckle Bastards series Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé (cw: lynching, child abuse, sexual abuse) Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews Alyssa Cole’s Loyal League series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse. Content warnings: harm to children, graphic violence Follow 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
Jenn and guest Kelly Jensen discuss books about moving on, animal narrators, colors in fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade (rec’d by Sophie, seconded by Ariel, and thirded by Elizabeth)
Books Discussed Joyful by Ingried Fetell Lee Light Years From Home by Mike Chen (cw: dementia in a parent, loss of a parent) Charlotte Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro Library of the Dead by TL Huchu (cw: harm to children, racist policing) The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa Post: https://bookriot.com/cats-in-japanese-fiction/ BEASTARS by Paru Itagaki The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu O Beautiful by Jung Yun Hell of a Book by Jason Mott The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan (cw death by suicide) A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass (cw: death of a pet)
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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang. Follow 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 emotionally devastating fiction, entertaining history, Old Hollywood, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Tweet Cute and When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord (rec’d by Lauren) Read Between The Lines by Rachel Lacey (rec’d by Kady) Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee (rec’d by Cara W.)
Books Discussed Leap of Faith by Queen Noor The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, transl by Stephen Snyder Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (cw: child abuse, sexual assualt, transphobia) The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell Music Is History by Ahmir Questlove Thompson with Ben Greenman Tana French, In the Woods (cw: harm to children) Edna O’Brien, Saints and Sinners Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (tw violence against women, harm to children) The Poppy War series by R.F. Kuang (cw: all of them) The Masquerade series by Seth Dickinson (also all the CW) Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub Siren Queen by Nghi Vo, out May 10 (cw: gore, coercion) A Hatchet by Gary Paulsen The I Survived Series Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love for children’s library The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Velvet Was The Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Follow 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 books for dealing with homophobia, novels from around the world, and a variety of cozy reads in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.
Feedback The Mercy Thompson Series by Patricia Brigg for this and also any Charlaine Harris supernatural series (The Sookie Stackhouse series; Midnight, Texas; Grave series) (rec’d by Julie) The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews and Love and Saffron by Kim Fay (rec’d by Amanda)
Books Discussed Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawab Judith Butler Interview regarding feminism and transphobia (and a follow-up) Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers The Immortals of Tehran by Alireza Taheri Araghi (TW suicide) Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (cw: slavery and related violences) Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (tw graphic harm to children, suicide) The Cutting Season by Attica Locke (cw: violence against women and children) The Man with the Poison Gun by Serhii Plokhy The She-Devil in the Mirror by Horacio Castellanos Moya, rec’d by Vanessa Diaz From Duke Till Dawn by Eva Leigh The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris (cw: gory violence, mention of rape) This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide. Trigger warnings: childhood sexual abuse, lynching Follow 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 books about being non-binary, Maggie Nelson comps, historical fiction about real women, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s novels A Kind of Freedom and The Revisioners (rec’d by Sibyl) The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (C/a for physical / emotional abuse of minors) and Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (rec’d by Gina) Books Discussed The Moon Within by Aida Salazar Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, illustrated by Phoebe Kobabe The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles The Remaking of Corbin Wale by Roan Parrish (cw: bullying, ableism) Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, transl. by Ginny Tapley Takemori Hold Me by Courtney Milan Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Blow Your House Down by Gina Frangello (tw violence against women) White Magic by Elissa Washuta (cw: intimate partner violence, PTSD, ableism, racism, disordered drug use) Matrix by Lauren Groff Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble (cw: death of animals) Llama Llama Nighty Night by Anna Dewdney Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Clock Star Rose Spine by Fran Wilde. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado. Trigger warnings for this title include: human trafficking, rape, sexual abuse of children, domestic violence. Follow 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 books for a retired dad who is basically Jimmy Buffett, books never mentioned on the show before, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Float Plan by Trish Doller and Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton (rec’d by Amanda) Ellie Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan is Killing It and the sequel Finlay Donovan Knocks Em Dead (rec’d by Alice)
Books Discussed The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich Tidesong by Wendy Xu Apartment Gardening by Amy Pennington and Kate Bingaman-Burt All New Square Foot Gardening 3rd Edition by Mel Bartholemew et al The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Psalm for the Wild–Built by Becky Chambers Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller (cw: domestic abuse) Waiting for Tomorrow by Natacha Appanah, transl by Geoffrey Strachan The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae, Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Sheree Renée Thomas (cw: transphobia; unjust incarceration; racism; homophobia) (out April 19) The Girl Meets Duke series by Tessa Dare (#1 The Duchess Deal) Jeannie Lin A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends If The Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy. Follow 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 a couple book club options, Ukrainian fiction, books to break a reading slump, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft by Tom Griffiths (rec’d by Laura) Books Discussed Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko, transl by Julia Meitov Hersey Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk (also we have several great posts about this) The Silence of Bones by June Hur The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He (cw: intimate partner violence, sort of) Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston Ammonite by Nicola Griffith Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (cw: violent homophobia) The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (tw childhood sexual abuse, human trafficking) Over The Top by Jonathan Van Ness (cw: child abuse, self-destructive behavior, disordered drug use) Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams. Follow 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 books set in the Caribbean, low-stakes fun, blind dates with sci-fi, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Backup by Erica Kudisch (rec’d by April) American Pop by Snowden Wright (rec’d by Tori) The Love Songs of WEB Dubois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (rec’d by Siobhan) Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of Montecello, Morgan Jerkins’s Wandering in Strange Lands, and Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (rec’d by Gina) Books Discussed The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling Machinehood by S.B. Divya (cw: death of a child, unwanted pregnancy) His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard (cw: racial violence and slurs, harm to children) Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto Heroine Complex series by Sarah Kuhn When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby (cw: violence against women and children) (rec’d by Annika) Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim (tw rape, ethnic war) When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite Dominicana by Angie Cruz (tw domestic violence) When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, my new obsession (out March 15 but i don’t care) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson. Follow 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 romantic power dynamics, Only Murders in the Building read-alikes, the Amish, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles (rec’d by Stephanie) The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (rec’d by Aida) The Watchmaker of Filigree St. by Natasha Pulley (rec’d by Kelly)
Books Discussed The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten, transl. by Marlaine Delargy Plain Secrets by Joe Mackall When the English Fall by David Williams (rec’d by Margaret) The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco but also just read Witchmark Dead Djinn Universe books by P. Djeli Clark The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey London Steampunk by Bec McMaster Midnight Bargain by CL Polk Iron Widow by (tw: rape) Xiran Jay Zhao The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin (cw: sexual assault, enslavement and coercion) Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas Poppy War by RF Kuang (cw: BASICALLY EVERYTHING) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Eve out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss multi-generational family stories, realistic small towns, queer international horror, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead (rec’d by Laura) The Mickey Rawlings mystery series by Troy Soos (rec’d by Suzanne) We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry (rec’d by Alicia) Joe Harris, the Moon by Joyce A. Miller (rec’d by Marilyn)
Books Discussed Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden Subpar Parks by Amber Share Jawbone by Mónica Odeja, transl. by Sarah Booker A Small Charred Face by Kazuki Sakuraba, transl. by Jocelyne Allen Weather by Jenny Offill Incarceration Nation by Baz Dreisinger The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (tw racism, domestic abuse) The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (cw: child death, addiction, domestic abuse, homophobia) Women and Power by Mary Beard A Tiger in the Kitchen by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy Invisible Library series by Genevieve Cogman The Reader by Traci Chee (cw: violent harm to children) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders. Follow 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 a bunch of great queer reads, give book picks inspired by “Burn, Butcher, Burn” (IYKYK), and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Girl Serpent Thorn by Melissa Barshardoust (rec’d Margaret) The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by CM Waggoner (cw: drug use, addiction, & drug related morally gray choices) Tentacle by Rita Indiana, transl. by Achy Obejas The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (cw: rape, racial slurs, racism, harm to children) From Scratch by Tembi Locke The Book of Delights by Ross Gay The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud Burning Roses by SL Huang (cw: animal death, child abuse) Next Year, For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson Weekend by Jane Eaton Hamilton (cw: racism, transphobia, infertility and miscarriage, intimate partner violence, death by suicide, ableism, hospitalization for chronic illness, deadnaming) Luster by Raven Leilani Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas (cw: bullying, disordered eating, harm to children) Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie We Set The Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Saving Us by Katharine Hayhoe. Follow 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 baseball in fiction, women in music, “histo-tainment”, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King (rec’d by Kate) Books Discussed The Body Where I Was Born by Guadalupe Nettel, transl. by JT Lichtenstein The Girl With Stars in Her Eyes by Xio Axelrod Dead in the Garden by Dahlia Donovan LGBTQ+ Mystery Post Criminal Gold by Ann Aptaker Beauty Queens by Libba Bray Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (cw: harm to animals, gore) Shelter by Jung Yun (tw domestic violence, sexual assault) The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang (cw: speculated harm to animals) Lumberjanes: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters, Brooklyn Allen, Maarta Laiho, Aubrey Aiese Goldie Vance by Hope Larson, Brittney Williams, and Sarah Stern Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Diamond Ruby by Joseph Wallace Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Follow 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 war stories, the Cold War, wealthy women, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee (rec’d by Amanda) The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (rec’d by Annie) The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey (rec’d by Elizabeth) Books Discussed You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe What It is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes Honey, Olive, Octopus by Christopher Bakken Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki, transl. by Karen Van Dyck (rec’d by Rebecca Hussey) The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch The Gilded Wolves series by Roshani Chokshi (cw: ableism, antisemitism, racism) House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild (rec’d by Cassie) Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu (cw: homophobia) Girl at War by Sara Novic (tw ethnic violence, lots and lots (and lots) of harm to children) Everfair by Nisi Shawl (cw: harm to children, racism and racial violence) American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson John Le Carre Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (cw: harm to children, violent homophobia, animal abuse, rape) A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel Versailles by Kathryn Davis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder and Markus Juslin. Follow 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 books about artists, nature, boundaries, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Secret of Snow by Viola Shipman and Who is Maude Dixon by Alexandra Andrews (rec’d by Amanda) Real Life by Brandon Taylor and In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (rec’d by Elizabeth) Books Discussed The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton Conjure Women by Afia Atakora (cw: slavery & related violence, complications in pregnancy, rape) Shepherd by Catherine Jinks (tw: bad things happening to animals) Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (cw: discussion of suicide, child abuse, and rape; on-page drug use) Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble (tw: suicide, harm to animals) Once Upon A River by Bonnie Jo Campbell (cw: rape, addiction, violence against women & children) Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab Alyssa Cole’s How To Find A Princess and A Prince on Paper Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel The Archivist Wasp Saga by Nicole Kornher-Stace What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt The Great Man by Kate Christensen The Fossil Hunter by Shelley Emling Everyday Ubuntu by Mungi Ngomane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by Donna Freitas. Follow 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 nostalgia reads, sapphic fantasy, nature writing, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili (TW: war, addiction, loss of a pregnancy, violence and Nazis) (rec’d by Cat) Books Discussed The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland (tw: child abuse) Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo The Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson (cw: child abuse, addiction) Witchmark by CL Polk Vivid by Beverly Jenkins (cw: racism) The Tiger’s Daughter by K Arsenault Rivera The Unbroken by C.L. Clark (cw: abuses of the colonial variety) The Home Place by J Drew Lanham World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo A Pale Light in the Black by KB Wagers (cw: emotionally abusive parents) Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman Listen to her on The Ezra Klein Show Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller (cw: suicidal thoughts; subject of book is a white supremacist, and it is discussed), rec’d by Danika Loading… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao. Follow 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 their favorite books and reading stats from 2021, and their goals for 2022 in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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. Best Books of 2021 Cultish by Amanda Montell The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan Matrix by Lauren Groff Jenn’s SFF picks: the Holiday Gifting episode & Year End Favorite episode of SFF Yeah! Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich The Girl With Stars In Her Eyes by Xio Axelrod Believers by Lisa Wells Decoding Despacito by Leila Cobo Books We Maxed Out In 2021 Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes The Conductors by Nicole Glover The Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thomas The Dead Djinn Universe series by P. Djeli Clark Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Middlemarch by George Eliot. Follow 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 queer book club picks, courtroom dramas, romance fantasy, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Seraphina’s Lament by Sarah Chorn (rec’d by Jen Zink) Books Discussed The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc Northern Light by Kazim Ali (cw: discussion of suicide) The Night Swim by Megan Goldin (tw: sexual assault) A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight (rec’d by Jamie) Death by Dumpling by Viven Chien Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (cw: harm to children, racism and racial slurs) Sam Wu is Not Afraid series by Katie and Kevin Tsang, Nathan Reed Illustrator (Sam Wu is Not Afraid of Ghosts) Rutabaga the Adventure Chef by Eric Colossal The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (cw: emotional abuse) A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas Payback’s A Witch by Lana Harper The Summoner series by Taran Matharu (The Novice) Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Sweat Equity by Jason Kelly. Follow 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 give some holiday gifting recs, immersive historical fiction, thrillers for book club, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Secret History by Donna Tartt Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin (cw: antisemitism, harm to children) Pushout by Monique W. Morris The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (cw: racism) The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan The Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh (Sea of Poppies #1) Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (tw: sexual assault, mental illness, self-harm) So Lucky by Nicola Griffith The Lost Man by Jane Harper (tw: domestic violence, sexual assault) Lady Sherlock (A Study in Scarlet Women #1) by Sherry Thomas Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen (cw: ableist language around mental health) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Intimacies by Katie Kitamura. Follow 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 Dune read-alikes, books about motherhood, guides to witchcraft, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (rec’d by Carol) Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan and The Bamboo Stalk by Saud Alsanousi (rec’d by Jenny) Books Discussed A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu (cw: mention of suicide) Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples The Celestial Trilogy (A Spark of White Fire #1) by Sangu Mandanna How to Stop Losing Your Shit with Your Kids by Carla Naumburg Guidebook to Relative Strangers by Camille T. Dungy Post: Great Books About Motherhood The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (tw: racism) When The Tiger Came Down the Mountain (Singing Hills Cycle #2) by Nghi Vo Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark (cw: discussion of suicide) Modern Tarot by Michelle Tea Witches of America by Alex Mar Post: Books For Beginner Witches Basic Witches by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck (cw: body horror) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Sentence by Louise Erdrich. Follow 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
Jenn and guest Charity Yoro give poetry recs, holiday gift picks, Erik Larson comps, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Daughters of Fire by Tom Peek Kaui Hart Hemmings and Kawai Strong Washburn This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell The Black Count by Tom Reiss Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (CW: sex, drugs, rock-n-roll content) Anne Carson (An Autobiography of Red) Carmen Maria Machado (In the Dream House, cw: domestic abuse) Ocean Vuong (On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous) Citizen by Claudia Rankine The Book of Delights by Ross Gay Londoners by Craig Taylor Brick Lane by Monica Ali White Teeth by Zadie Smith Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other) Kraken by China Mieville You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened by Arisa White Directed by Desire by June Jordan Autostraddle post: https://www.autostraddle.com/read-a-fcking-book-ten-lesbian-bisexual-poets-34457/ The Witch Boy series by Molly Knox Ostertag Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow One Hundred Days by Alice Pung (cw: emotional and physical abuse) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Matrix by Lauren Groff. Follow 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 give their picks for various gifting requests in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Year of Wonders : a Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks and Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin (rec’d by Amanda) Books Discussed The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (cw: sexual assault, domestic violence) Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (cw: pregnancy complications, body horror) The Expanse by James S.A. Corey The Dutch House by Ann Patchett The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (cw: violence against women and children, racism, alcoholism) Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins Caffeinated by Murray Carpenter Krampus by Brom Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby (tw: racism) They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzel Hall (so many cw’s y’all) Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson (cw: addiction, mental illness, suicide, mention of child abuse) Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh Here’s a great post: https://bookriot.com/horror-books-for-middle-school/ Tales From The Hinterlands by Melissa Albert, per Sharifah’s rec on SFF Yeah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu. Follow 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 a bunch of different book group recs, books about caregiving, modern novels for classics lovers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Inflamed by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel (rec’d by Heather) Of Echoes Born by ‘Nathan Burgoine, House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland, Alone by EJ Noyes, Nottingham and Thorn by Anna Burke (rec’d by Wynnde) Pine by Francine Toon (rec’d by Georgia) Books Discussed The Soul of Care by Arthur Kleinman A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Out by Natsuo Kirino, transl. by Stephen Snyder (tw: sexual assault, domestic violence/abuse, also very murdery) Blake or the Huts of America by Martin R. Delaney (cw: slavery & related violence) h/t Nisi Shawl’s Black Speculative Fiction reading list Matrix by Lauren Groff Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (tw: suicide) The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Cordova The Evangelicals by Frances FitzGerald Blessed by Kate Bowler American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson Who Is Vera Kelly by Rosalie Knecht (cw: child abuse, homophobia, antisemitism) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Swan Dive by Georgina Pazcoguin. Follow 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 thrillers and historical mysteries, moving with kids, read-alouds about socks in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 How to Be a Family by Dan Kois The Telling Room by Michael Paterniti The Guest List by Lucy Foley (tw: sexual assault, extreme bullying) My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh (cw: alcoholism, child abuse, rape, disordered eating) A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (rec’d by Cassie) Dangerous Women by Hope Adams Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March (cw: references to suicide, mention of rape and harm to children) She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey The Golden Thread by Ravi Somaiya Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead Books & Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Jenn discusses Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! 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
Jenn and guest Liberty from All the Books discuss haunted houses, nature thrillers, books about moms, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Meet Me in Another Life by Catrina Silvey (cw for violence, murder, suicide) Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow Pleasantville by Attica Locke (cw for sexual assault, murder) Have a post! https://bookriot.com/books-fans-get-away-murder/ A Small Revolution by Jimin Han (cw: gun violence on a college campus) The Swallows by Lisa Lutz (cw for violence, sexual assault on a school campus, death) My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Breaking Wild by Diane Les Becquets (cw for prolonged peril, animal death) Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (cw: animal death) The Good House by Tananarive Due (cw: violence, racism, physical abuse, murder, suicide) The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas (May 2022) White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (cw: disordered eating, self-harm) We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker (cw for suicide, ableism, violence, war) A House Between Earth and the Moon by Rebecca Scherm (March 29 2022) The Reluctant Queen by Sarah Beth Durst What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark Pandemic by Sonia Shah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle. Follow 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 more books with Fall vibes, overthinky nonfiction, tea with robots, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Sanctuary by Rebekah Weatherspoon (rec’d by Jen Zink) California Field Atlas by author/illustrator Obi Kauffman (rec’d by Carol) Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman; Dave Eggers and Vindela Vida (rec’d by Carol) The Raje series by Sonali Dev, the Friend Zone series by Abby Jimenez, and the Modern Love series by Alisha Rai; A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson and The Hour of Land by Terry Tempest Williams (rec’d by Nicole) Books Discussed Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (watch the Hitchcock version) Hocus Pocus and the All New Sequel by A.W. Jantha Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani (with caveat about toxic masculinity) The Conductors by Nicole Glover (tw: slavery) Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed (cw: violent harm to children, body horror, internalized racism) Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (cw: sexual assault, child abuse, transphobia, racism) The Awkward Thoughts of W Kamau Bell The Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson (cw: child abuse, drug use) Hola Papi by John Paul Brammer Gamechanger by LX Beckett The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard (cw: descriptions of PTSD) Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (tw: graphic harm to children, rape, self-harm/suicide) Every Reasonable Doubt by Pamela Samuels Young (rec’d by Mel) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon, with thanks to Patricia for the recommendation! Follow 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 contemporary virgin heroines, dinner book-clubs, autumnal and/or spooky reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke (rec’d by Laura) Goldy Bear series (Catering To Nobody) by Diane Mott Davidson, Sloan Krause series by Ellie Alexander (rec’d by Suzanne) Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton (rec’d by Carol) For keeping up with favorite authors: Fantastic Fiction (rec’d by Jennifer) Futhermore by Tahereh Mafi (rec’d by Rachael) Theatrical by Maggie Harcourt (rec’d by Zara) Books Discussed Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole (cw: emotionally abusive parent) Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal How To Be A Movie Star by TJ Klune If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha (tw: extreme, violent bullying) Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover (cw: on-page violence related to war) Zone One by Colson Whitehead The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Cordova Legendborn by Tracy Deonn Work For It by Talia Hibbert (rec’d by Jess Pryde, cw: severe depression and mental health issues) Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur (cw: child abuse and domestic violence, racism including use of slurs) Hold Me by Courtney Milan (tw: mentions of suicide) Teach Me by Olivia Dade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Fledgling by Octavia Butler. Follow 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 the second round of “Ask Us Anything” questions, in honor of hitting the 300 episode milestone! Follow 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. Links And Notes Intimacies by Katie Kitamura Don’t Call it a Cult by Sarah Berman, Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc McCann Dog Training’s puppy series on YouTube Robert Cabral’s YouTube especially if it’s a protection breed (or even if you notice impulse control/excitement issues or the dog is big enough to be hard to handle) Puppies for Dummies by Sarah Hodgson Take a puppy class at the SPCA Xio Axelrod’s Girl With Stars In Her Eyes Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin New Suns, edited by Nisi Shawl Smitten Kitchen pumpkin bread Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley, with an honorable mention for How To Write An Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee. Follow 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 dive into listener’s not-necessarily-bookish questions in celebration of Episode 300! Follow 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. Miscellaneous Notes: Tressie MacMillan Cottom Nalo Hopkinson NetGalley, Edelweiss Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me Reading Women FiveThirtyEight Left, Right & Center Pantsuit Politics Office Ladies Celeste Ng The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles. Follow 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 nature reads, author couples, seasonal book vibes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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. Submit a request via the form! Feedback A List of Cages by Robin Roe, All the Rage by Courtney Summers (rec’d by April) On Beauty by Zadie Smith, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif (rec’d by Elizabeth) Miss Marjoribanks by Margaret Oliphant (rec’d by Gina) Books Discussed The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer Why Religion by Elaine Pagels Zoey and Sassafras series (#1 Dragons and Marshmallows) by Asia Citro, illustrated by Marion Lindsay Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott The Home Place by J Drew Lanham On Trails by Robert Moor Colson Whitehead, Underground Railroad Zadie Smith, White Teeth (cw: suicide attempt, racism, domestic abuse, homophobia) The Merman by Carl-Johan Vallgren (tw: child abuse) The Vicious Deep by Zoraida Cordova Tahereh Mafi and Ransom Riggs Zadie Smith and Nick Laird Delia Sherman and Ellen Kushner Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (cw: transphobia incl. deadnaming) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Content warnings: domestic violence, child molestation, substance abuse Erin & Dani’s Book Club 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 books that challenge stereotypes, romances with nice guys, extra murdery mysteries, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Looking for Group by Alexis Hall (rec’d by S.) Love and Other Mistakes by Jessica Kate (rec’d by Georgia) Books Discussed Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto Girl With Stars In Her Eyes by Xio Axelrod (cw: drug use) The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso (tw apartheid) The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard (challenging stereotypes & preconceptions, cw: violent racism) The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, transl Alison Watts They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall (all the content warnings) French Milk by Lucy Knisley Just So Happens by Fumio Obata Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop, transl. by Anna Moschovakis The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe When The Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Premonition by Michael Lewis. Follow 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
Jenn and guest Erica Ezeifedi discuss food in cozy mysteries, space opera of various kinds, recs for teenagers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Submit your reading recommendation request via the form! 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 Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett A Trifle Dead by Livia Day All Systems Red (First in the Murderbot series) by Martha Wells A Big Ship At The Edge of the Universe by Alex White You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson A Map to the Sun by Sloane Leong City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert Well Met by Jen DeLuca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss class differences in romance, Shades of Magic readalikes, scientists in isolation, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Click through to the request form 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. Feedback The Queen’s Fool by Philippa Gregory (rec’d by Kelly) An Unorthodox Match by Naomi Ragen (rec’d by Valerie) The Shades of Magic series by V.E. Schwab (rec’d by Deanna) Books Discussed The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham The Lotus Palace by Jeannie Lin (cw: harm to children) What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (cw: animal death) The Dingo Debate by Bradley SMith There There by Tommy Orange (cw: addiction, rape, racism) The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (tw: harm to children) The Dead Djinn series (A Dead Djinn in Cairo #1) by P Djèlí Clark Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi A Court Of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen (cw: lots of use of ableist language around mental health) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Dear Scarlet by Teresa Wong. Follow 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 October reads, books set in India, angry female characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 We Are by Graham Swift and Birchwood by John Banville (rec’d by Cat) Books Discussed All the Murmuring Bones by AG Slatter (tw: incest, child abuse) The Library of the Dead by TL Huchu (cw: harm to children, racist policing incident) Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (tw: harm to children) Books Set in India post: https://bookriot.com/books-set-in-india/ The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi (cw: intimate partner violence, infertility & miscarriage) The Merry Spinster by Daniel M. Lavery (may be listed under Mallory Ortberg) Firebreak by Nicole Horner-Stace White Oleander by Janet Fitch (tw: child abuse, suicide) Educated by Tara Westover (cw: child abuse) Elizabeth Gaskell Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray The Son by Phillipp Meyer (tw: torture, harm to children) Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich (cw: harm to pregnant women) In the Garden of Spite by Camilla Bruce (tw: domestic violence, miscarriage) They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzel Hall (cw: reference to teenage suicide, racism, cyber bullying, disordered eating, and others) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn Northington recommends When The Tiger Came Down The Mountain by Nghi Vo. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Mentioned: The Empress of Salt and Fortune 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 pesky reporters, books set in Egypt, “teamwork” romances, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon (rec’d by Émilie) The Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister (rec’d by Katharine) Books Discussed A Front Page Affair by Radha Vatsal Fresh by Margot Wood (rec’d by Danika) All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter (tw: incest, child abuse) The Taker Trilogy by Alma Katsu Bring on the Blessings by Beverly Jenkins True Pretenses by Rose Lerner (cw: character recounts experiencing antisemitism) The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer (coming out Sept 28th) The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson Midnight in Mexico by Alfredo Corchado Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang Hench by Natalie Walschots (cw: body horror, medical trauma, PTSD, panic attacks) The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan (tw: miscarriage, domestic violence) Silver Silence by Nalini Singh (Psy-Changeling Trinity #1) The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, transl. by Elisabeth Jaquette A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark The Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1) by Naguib Mahfouz, transl. by William H. Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny
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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Follow 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 quarter-life crises, charming graphic novels, mysteries about social issues, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Taste of Sugar by Marisel Vera (rec’d by Sarah) The Atlas Six by Olivia Blake Betwixt by Darynda Jones and Magical Midlife Madness by KF Breese (rec’d by Sherry) Things in Jars by Jess Kidd (rec’d by Carol) Books Discussed Uptown Thief by Aya de Léon The Baddest Bitch in the Room by Sophia Chang Luster by Raven Leilani Post: https://bookriot.com/novels-about-quarterlife-crisis/ Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Power by Ryan North and Erica Henderson Rutabaga The Adventure Chef by Eric Colossal Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (tw: domestic violence) Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed (cw: harm to children) What’s Done in Darkness by Laura McHugh (tw: violence against women, sexual assault) Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey If You Lived Here I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Books Mentioned Sword Stone Table, edited by Jenn Northington and Swapna Krishna Legendborn by Tracey Deonn 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 circus stories, creepy but not scary reads, Gilmore Girls read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness (rec’d by Jessica) The Will Darling trilogy by KJ Charles (rec’d by JL) Books Discussed The Wanderers by Meg Howrey Famous Men Who Never Lived by K Chess (cw: assault, bigotry) The Circus Rose by Betsy Cornwell The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore (tw: child abuse, mention of rape) Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (tw: racism, domestic violence, harm to children) Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer The Silence of Bones by June Hur She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan Loyal League series by Alyssa Cole Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley (cw: attempted rape) Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri. Follow 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
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers. Follow 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 stories about male friendship, arranged marriages, paranormal mysteries, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith (rec’d by Stephanie) A Thousand Acres (1991) by Jane Smiley (content advisory for child abuse, including off-page sexual abuse) (rec’d by Gina) Books Discussed The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss And Only To Deceive (Lady Emily Ashton series) by Tasha Alexander The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (tw: racism, sexual abuse) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (cw: homophobia, antisemitism) When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (cw: ableism) A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain Here is a post about paranormal mystery books Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel Jose Older Here is a post of books about houses that are alive! The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Fen by Daisy Johnson Two Old Women by Velma Wallis How Much Of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Louise Heal Kawai. Follow 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 Outlander read-alikes, funny alien/space stories, hidden identities, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Daisy Dalrymple series by Carola Dunn (rec’d by Buddy) Dakota Blues by Lynne Spreen (rec’d by Kate) Sia Figiel (Where We Once Belonged), Tales of the Tikongs by Epeli Hau’ofa, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson, Melal by Robert Barclay (rec’d by Carol) Books Discussed Poldark by Winston Graham (#1 Ross Poldark) The Night Mark by Tiffany Reisz That Inevitable Victorian Thing by EK Johnston The Earthsinger Chronicles (Song of Blood and Stone #1) by L. Penelope Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo Touched by an Alien by Gini Koch Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders (cw: transphobia) Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz (tw: domestic violence) Mundo Cruel by Luis Negrón, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine (cw: racism and homophobia incl. slurs) Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis Chen Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews (rec’d by Liberty) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Decoding “Despacito”: An Oral History of Latin Music by Leila Cobo. Playlist! Follow 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 dark Shakespeare retellings, where to start with cyberpunk, books on life transitions, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad, books by Hannah Kent or Sarah Perry (rec’d by Laura) Among Others by Jo Walton (rec’d by Lottie) Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (rec’d by Gina) Books Discussed The New Rules of Divorce by Jacqueline Newman Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi Well-Read Black Girl, edited by Glory Edim The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton If We Were Villains by ML Rio (cw: domestic violence) Infomocracy by Malka Ann older A Guide to Cyberpunk: https://bookriot.com/cyberpunk-books/ Machinehood by SB Divya (cw: death of a child) Adulting by Kelly Williams Brown Once Upon A Time I Lived On Mars by Kate Greene Firelight by Kristen Callihan It Takes Two to Tumble by Cat Sebastian Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss books set in Polynesia and Ireland, aristocratic mysteries, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (rec’d by Elizabeth) Books Discussed The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (tw: racism, lynching, domestic violence) Recipe For Persuasion by Sonali Dev (cw: graphic death by suicide, alcoholism, rape, intimate partner violence, emotional child abuse) Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal T. Spitz, translated by Jean Anderson A Taste of Heaven by Penny Watson Wayward by Dana Spiotta (shout-out to Parul Sehgal’s review in the NYT) Veronica Speedwell series by Deanna Raybourn (#1 A Curious Beginning) The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett Conjure Women by Afia Atakora (tw: slavery) Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan Other Words For Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (cw: sex trafficking, domestic violence, addiction) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Cultish by Amanda Montell. Follow 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 middle-grade read-alouds, atmospheric novels, snarky narrators, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey by Özge Samanci (rec’d by Jan) Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen (rec’d by Sibyl) Anthony Horowitz’s the Susan Ryeland series (first book: Magpie Murders) and the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries (first book: The Word is Murder) (rec’d by Ann) Books Discussed Fairest by Meredith Talusan (tw: racism) Sorted by Jackson Bird Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate Where The Mountain Meets The Moon by Grace Lin Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, transl. by Anne McLean Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (tw: rape & other violence towards women, harm to children including death, panic attacks & PTSD) Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O’Keefe Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak Suicide Prevention Lifeline: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel (tw: suicide attempts) Please Like Me S2, particularly Episode 7 Post: https://bookriot.com/6-novels-featuring-mental-illness-world-suicide-prevention-day/ Borderline by Mishell Baker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab. Follow 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 books set in Appalachia, feel-good classics, some Pride reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult (rec’d by Laura) Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan (rec’d by Elizabeth) Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid and Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld (rec’d by Linda) John Green’s The Anthropocene Reviewed (rec’d by Sofia) The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton (rec’d by Gina) Books Discussed A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine The Cas Russell series (Zero Sum Game) by SL Huang (tw: torture, lots of violence, mention of suicide, disordered drinking) Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (tw: racism) Betty by Tiffany McDaniel (tw: rape, abuse, animal cruelty) (rec’d by Kendra) Post: https://bookriot.com/appalachian-audiobooks-about-home/ Next Year, For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson Bound To Be A Groom by Megan Mulry What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee (cw: racism, torture) Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty Murderbot by Martha Wells Machinehood by SB Divya (cw: mention of death of a child due to chronic illness) Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Dial A For Aunties by Jessie Q. Sutanto. Follow 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 books about witch trials, X-Files read-alikes, rainforest stories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris (TW for racism and death of a child) (rec’d by Ashley) The Cat, the Quilt, and the Corpse by Leanne Sweeney; Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs; Lowcountry Boil by Liz Talbot; The House on Tradd Street by Karen White (rec’d by Laura) The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon; Certain Dark Things by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia (rec’d by Cari) Books Discussed My Name is Red by Orham Pamuk, transl. Erdag M Goknar Kedi, dir. Ceyda Torun Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak (cw: attempted sexual assault, prison abuse and torture) The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud The Unidentified by Colin Dickey Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala Lady Sherlock by Sherry Thomas Circe by Madeline Miller (tw sexual assault, child abuse) The Machineries of Empire trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee (cw: coercion, rape, violence) Affections by Rodrigo Hasbun, transl by Sophie Hughes (tw: nazis) City of Beasts by Isabelle Allende, transl. Margaret Sayers Peden Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown. Follow 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 cuddly YA books, friendships in fiction, nonfiction for LGBTQ+ allies, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Nervermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (rec’d by Summer) The Emporium trilogy: Furyborn by Claire Legrand Rurouni Kenshi (manga) by Nobuhiro Watsuki; Moribito by Nahoko Uehashi; Keigo Higashino, Malice; Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen; Hiromi Kawakami, Nakano Thrift Shop (rec’d by Kelly) Books Discussed Educated by Tara Westover (tw: child abuse, harm to children, pretty gross injuries from just a lot of random shit, domestic violence) The Fire This Time, edited by Jesmyn Ward Iron Cast by Destiny Soria Cemetery Boys by Aidan Thomas (cw: deadnaming, transphobia) The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby Jade City by Fonda Lee (cw: child abuse) God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines Sorted by Jackson Bird Landline by Rainbow Rowell My Real Children by Jo Walton (cw: domestic violence) New Kid, New Scene by Debbie Glasser, Emily Schenck New Kid by Jerry Craft (rec’d by Hannah Gomez of Hey YA)
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Amanda and Jenn discuss several geographically specific reads, COVID art, memories in sci-fi, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila (rec’d by Carol) Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody (rec’d by Laura) A Painted House by John Grisham, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (rec’d by Suzanne) Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings (rec’d by Rachel) Good Enough to Eat by Jae and Alison Gray, CW: it deals with real addiction and alcoholism (rec’d by Rose) The Library of Legends by Janie Chang (rec’d by Susan) Books Discussed Alabama: The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins Utah: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (cw: homophobia) Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera, transl Lisa Dillman The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea (tw: rape, child abuse) The Premonition by Michael Lewis Together, Apart, by Erin A. Craig, Jennifer Yen, et al The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon (tw: harm to children) The Blue Fox by Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb Cheese and Culture by Paul Kindstedt Edible by Daniella Martin The Deep by Rivers Solomon, et al Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi The Chimes by Anna Smaill The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee (cw: death of a child) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Just Work: Get Sh*t Done, Fast And Fair by Kim Scott. Content warning: Multiple instances of sexual assault and rape Follow 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-human narrators, stories about ladies doing it for themselves, books set in Japan, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Stoner by John Williams, Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones and Sing Unburied Sing, Montana 1948 by Larry Watson, and My Antonia by Willa Cather (rec’d by Elizabeth) Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, White Palace by Glenn Savan (rec’d by Wynnde) Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, and The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (rec’d by Cate) Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K Hamilton (rec’d by Kelly) Books Discussed Spinster by Kate Bolick Finding Freedom by Erin French (cw: addiction, domestic abuse, harm to animals) Shinju by Laura Joh Rowland Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba, Vol. 1 by Koyoharu Gotouge with John Werry (Translator), Stan!, Adam Grano, Mike Montesa, John Hunt (cw: harm to children, mostly off-screen) Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love When Aidan Became A Brother by Kyle Lukoff, Kaylani Juanita The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner The Unspoken Name by AK Larkwood A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (cw: harm to children, graphic violence) Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey (tw: rape, harm to children) The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka (Roxane Weary #1) (cw: violence against women and minors including rape, kidnapping, imprisonment) The Deep by Rivers Solomon (tw: slavery) Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton (narrated by a crow and also a cow and a polar bear, dogs and cats and sparrows) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Amanda discusses Luster by Raven Leilani. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! 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 talking cats, dog books for toddlers, defeating internalized racism and sexism, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Moloka‘i by Alan Brennert (rec’d by Lauren) The Moon–Spinners by Mary Stewart (rec’d by Kelly) A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes and Ariadne by Jennifer Saint (rec’d by Hannah) Books Discussed Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comics by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack The Song of the Lioness Quartet (Alanna: The First Adventure #1) by Tamora Pierce If We Were Villains by ML Rio (tw: domestic violence) The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma (tw: death by suicide, lots of body-shaming) Snowed In by Rachel Hawthorne Once Upon A River by Bonnie Jo Campbell (tw: violence against women and children including rape, graphic violence, drug abuse) Mia Mayhem series (#1 Mia Mayhem is a Superhero) by Kara West and Leeza Hernandez Chronicles of Claudette (Giants, Beware! #1) by Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado et al Stormy by Guojing Zorro and Mister Bud (Say Hello to Zorro!) by Carter Goodrich Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall For the Love of Men by Liz Plank Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed. Content warnings: harm to children incl. child death, racism, body horror Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Other Books Mentioned: Alexis Hall (Affair of the Mysterious Letter) Ada Hoffmann (The Outside) Victor LaValle (Ballad of Black Tom) NK Jemisin (City We Became) 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-boring literary fiction, books set in Jamaica, unreliable narrators, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (rec’d by Ericka) Books Discussed Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins Earthsinger Chronicles by L. Penelope (#1 Song of Blood and Stone) Sacred Hunt (Hunter’s Oath) & Sun Sword series by Michelle West (rec’d by Liberty) The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson (cw: death by suicide, addiction, child neglect, racism and racial violence against Native peoples) Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn (tw homophobia) Augustown by Kei Miller (cw via StoryGraph: polite brutality, racial violence) Summer and Bird by Katherine Catmull The Fairyland series (Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland) by Cat Valente (cw: mention of child abuse) Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar Atonement by Ian McEwan Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (rec’d by Jess) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala. Follow 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 mythology retellings, shifter romance, books about Greece and Hawaii, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith (rec’d by Brooke) Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch (rec’d by Sophie) The Switch by Beth O’Leary and The City We Became by NK Jemisin (rec’d by Cari) Books Discussed Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K.S. Villoso The Poppy War by RF Kuang (with ALL the trigger warnings) The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember Burning Roses by S.L. Huang Bears Behaving Badly by MaryJanice Davidson Mating The Huntress by Talia Hibbert The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt My Family and other Animals by Gerald Durrell Eurydice Street by Sofka Zinovieff Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (tw: harm to children, sexual assault, racism) Love in Color by Bolu Babalola Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello, inspired by This Is The Voice by John Colapinto. Follow 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 genre novels about older characters, read-alikes for Ted Lasso, and wanderlust in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil (rec’d by Jeff) Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan (rec’d by Linda) Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage and Manners by Therese O’Neill and The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way by Bill Bryson (rec’d by Angie) Books Discussed Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (cw: racial violence) Feeding the Monster by Seth Mnookin The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Follow Your Arrow by Jessica Verdi (rec’d by Danika) Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #1) Dead in the Garden by Dalia Donovan Check, Please!: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu (with thanks to Smexy Books) Window Seat by Aminatta Forna (comes out May 18) The Outrun by Amy Liptrot (tw: mental illness, suicidal ideation, sexual assault) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Conductors by Nicole Glover. Follow 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 guides for being a sustainable consumer, books about mental illness, fantasy romance reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Language of Hoofbeats by Catherine Ryan Hyde and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (rec’d by Wynnde) The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwan (rec’d by Ilona) Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children, Across the Green Grass Fields, and Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko (rec’d by Laura) Books Discussed The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman Chemistry by Weike Wang Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (tw: slavery) Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (cw: transphobia) Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists by Mikki Kendall, illustrated by A. D’Amico A Life Less Throwaway by Tara Button The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, transl. Cathy Hirano Haldol and Hyacinths by Melody Moezzi (tw: suicide attempt) The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (cw: harm to children) Promise of Darkness by Bec McMaster Post: Fantasy Romance Books Empire of Sand (Books of Ambha #1) by Tasha Suri Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky by Lynell George. 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 books set in Chicago, love-to-hate-them protagonists, magical realism, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Coyotes of Carthage by Steven Wright (rec’d by John) Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose (rec’d by Amanda) What is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi and Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (rec’d by JB) Books Discussed Chicago by Alaa Al-Aswany The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (tw: domestic abuse) Serena Singh Flips The Script by Sonya Lalli (cw: domestic violence) The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso (tw racism) The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani (cw: war crimes) Fairest by Meredith Talusan The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh (cw: domestic violence, self-harm, violence against women) What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur Small Change by Roan Parrish (cw: discussion of depression and self-harm) The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward (tw: suicide) Dakota Blues by Lynn M Speer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty. 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 more nonfiction for book clubs, magical horses, novels set in Morocco, 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 Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Diaz (tw: domestic violence, sexual assault, harm to children) A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt (cw: racism, homophobia) 2 AM at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go The Time in Between by Maria Dueñas, transl. by Daniel Hahn Secret Son by Laila Lalami Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker (rec’d Jess Pryde) Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika and Maritza Moulite Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst The Hero and The Crown by Robin McKinley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee. 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. Resources Get bystander intervention training to stop harassment when you see it [Hollaback] Learn more about anti-Asian violence, via this webinar run by AAAJ Atlanta Donate to an AAPI or AAPI-supporting organization, via GoFundMe or an organization near you Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss guides to having feelings at work, books about queer families, unsatisfying endings, 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 Last One by Alexandra Oliva (rec’d by Andie) The Outermost House by Henry Beston and The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (rec’d by Kristi) The Best Kind of Beautiful by Francis Whiting (rec’d by Rebecca) Books Discussed Too Much by Rachel Vorona Cote Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch Radical Candor by Kim Scott No Hard Feelings by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy High as the Waters Rise by Anja Kampmann (transl. Anne Posten) A Small Town in Germany by John Le Carre Courting the Countess by Jenny Frame Weekend by Jane Eaton Hamilton (cw: racism, transphobia, infertility and miscarriage, discussion of intimate partner violence, discussion of death by suicide, ableism, hospitalization for chronic illness, deadnaming) The Conductors by Nicole Glover A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh (cw: harm to animals, violence towards women and children including rape, domestic violence) The Suicide House by Charlie Donlea (tw: suicide) The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang What’s Left of Me is Yours by Stephanie Scott The Crossing by Jason Mott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie. 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 survival guides, books like Survivor, historical 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. Books Discussed Just in Case by Kathy Harrison How To Invent Everything by Ryan North (That time he got stuck in a hole) The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (tw slavery) Victoire by Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox The Dime by Kathleen Kent The Outside by Ada Hoffmann (cw: self-harm) Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (tw: sexual assault) The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard Templar series by Raymond Khoury (#1 The Last Templar) The Jaya Jones series by Gigi Pandian (Artifact #1) The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor The Helpline by Katherine Collette (rec’d by Keryn) Beauty Queens by Libba Bray South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Brave New Home by Diana Lind. 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
Jenn and guest Kim Ukura discuss lots of nonfiction, including kid-friendly science audiobooks and body-positive memoirs, 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 Packing for Mars by Mary Roach (Gulp, Spook, or Grunt) Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison (9 hours 3 minutes) Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars by Kate Greene (6 hrs 7 min) How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong Northern Light by Kazim Ali (cw: discussion of suicide) Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Anne Helen Petersen
VeryFat #VeryBrave by Nicole Byer
The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Book Club When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams, (cw: attempted assault) 10 Mystery and Thriller Books Starring Older Women Books With Female Protagonists Over 60 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle. 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 “will they, won’t they” romance, fiction set in DC, memoirs by survivors of abuse, 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 Tilly and the Bookwanderers by Anna James (rec’d by Lauren) Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor (rec’d by Leenie) Books Discussed The Nature Fix by Florence Williams World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Veronica Speedwell series by Deanna Raybourne (#1 A Curious Beginning) Lady Sherlock by Sherry Thomas (particularly A Conspiracy in Belgravia #2) A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by HG Parry The Fatma al-Sha’arawi series by P. Djèlí Clark (A Dead Djinn in Cairo) The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Love Is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson Perveen Mistry series by Sujata Massey (#1 The Widows of Malabar Hill) (tw: domestic violence) Gethsemane Brown series by Alexia Gordon (Murder in G Major) (cw: ableist language) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (tw racism, rape) Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee (cw: child abuse, transphobia, dissociation/PTSD) The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (tw harm to children) Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (tw: abuse towards women and children, child deaths) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Reverb by Anna Zabo. CW: stalking (cyber and in-person) In the Club newsletter 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 give their current favorite cozy reads across genres 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. Books Discussed The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones (tw: rape) Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes All the Wild Hungers by Karen Babine (cw: cancer treatment, fertility and pregnancy issues) The True Queen by Zen Cho (Sorcerer Royal #2) Safe As Houses by Marie Helene Bertino Serena Singh Flips the Script by Sonya Lalli (tw: domestic violence) Persephone Station by Stina Leicht Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons (tw: suicide) Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden (cw: reference to sexual assault, harm to children) Ocean Light by Nalini Singh (cw: description of panic attacks, reference to child abuse, abductions) Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun, translated by Sora Kim-Russell. 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 secretly bad-ass female characters, Belgitude, adventure chapter books, 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 Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan (rec’d by Megan) Alastair MacLean: The Navarone series, Where Eagles Dare (rec’d by Wynnde) Books Discussed Five Little Indians by Michelle Good (tw: racism, child abuse) Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth (tw: self harm, fatal overdose, torture, gore) Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Lady Killer by Joelle Jones, Jamie S. Rich, and Chelsea Cain La Femme de Gilles by Madeleine Bourdouxhe (tw: suicide) Brussels Noir, edited by Michel Dufranne Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe The Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March (rec’d Nicole Hill) The Lotus Palace by Jeannie Lin Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas Bunny by Mona Awad (tw: animal cruelty/death) Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi Brightstorm by Vashti Hardy (rec’d by multiple Rioters) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Imaro by Charles R. Saunders. 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. Links and Mentions Crash Course in History of Black Science Fiction by Nisi Shawl Charles Saunders’ obituary in the NY Times Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James David Anthony Durham’s Acacia series Kai Ashante Wilson Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 by Alex Wells (disclosure: they write our SFF newsletter) Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho Brimstone by Cherie Priest (tw: scenes of war) Antigoddess by Kendare Blake (Goddess War #1) I would leave me if I could by Halsey At Blackwater Pond by Mary Oliver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 More Unbending Battle by Peter Nelson The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins The Living Is Easy by Dorothy West Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Atlas of Unknowns by Tania James Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Cole (cw: description of panic and anxiety attacks) The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by CM Waggoner Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward (tw: suicide) Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman American Hippo by Sarah Gailey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 People’s Future of the United States, edited by Victor LaValle Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu (cw: suicide) Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee Each Of Us A Desert by Mark Oshiro (cw: abusive parents, graphic violence) Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day by Winifred Watson (cw: casual racism & misogyny) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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, racial slurs) America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo (tw political torture) My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki (tw: child abuse, domestic violence, lots of weird dark stuff that i can’t remember precisely) Dead in the Garden by Dahlia Donovan (tw: racism, ableism, homophobia) Death at Breakfast by Beth Gutcheon (tw: suicide, drug abuse, child abduction, fatphobia) The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (tw: rape) The Half-God of Rainfall by Innua Ellams (tw: rape on the page) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Helen Peterson Ask A Manager by Alison Green Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim The Noble Hustle by Colson Whitehead The Switch by Beth O’Leary Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey (Book One: Kushiel’s Dart) The Dreamblood Duology by NK Jemisin (tw: violence and abuse towards women and children, sexual assault) Everafter by Nell Stark and Trinity Tam Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Something New in 2021: read some memoirs, We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib (tw: racism) Theme: Novellas, The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 by Charles McCann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 (Zambian writer) (tw: colonialism, racism, racial slurs, just all the racial triggers, rape) From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum Ross Gay (esp. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude) When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, edited by Joy Harjo with Leanne Howe and Jennifer Foerster A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (tw: all of them) Chang-Rae Lee; On Such a Full Sea (tw: sexual assault, medical experimentation, abduction and imprisonment), Native Speaker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Mangos and Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas (tw: child abuse, sexual assault) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg. This episode is sponsored by Penguin Teen. 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 with interesting structures, queer YA, historical fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Kensington Books, and Yen Press. 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 Brilliance Saga (Brilliance) by Marcus Sakey (rec’d by Carol) The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism by Steve Kornacki; #Kornackithirst on Leslie Jones’s Twitter feed (rec’d by Kelly) Books Discussed Milkman by Anna Burns The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin (tw: graphic harm to children, institutionalized racism) Huntress by Malinda Lo Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel by A.W. Jantha Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells A Pale Light in the Black by KB Wagers House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The Kingston Cycle by CL Polk (Witchmark) (tw: violence against women & children, PTSD) The Loyal League Series by Alyssa Cole (An Extraordinary Union) (tw: slavery) The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee Angel’s Blood by Nalini Singh The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (tw: domestic violence, harm to women & children, addiction) Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace (tw: child abuse) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Once Upon A Time I Lived on Mars by Kate Greene. This episode is sponsored by Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 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 books for garden inspiration, sci-fi for book club, Portrait of a Lady on Fire read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Penguin Teen, and A Drop of Midnight by Jason Diakité. 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 Sarah Dunant: Birth of Venus, In The Company of the Courtesan, Sacred Hearts, Blood & Beauty, and In the Name of the Family (rec’d by Isabelle) Books Discussed Untamed by Glennon Doyle The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked, edited by Sheila Black, Annabelle Hayse, and Michael Northen The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham (tw: domestic abuse, alcoholism) The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (tw: domestic violence, self-harm) All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry Claire De Witt and the Bohemian Highway (#2 in series) by Sara Gran Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older The Chilling Effect series by Valerie Valdes After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Valley Girls by Sarah Nicole Lemon. This episode is sponsored by The Institute by Stephen King, now available in paperback from Gallery Books. 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 superpowered characters, travel novels and nonfiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Care/of, and Sips by. 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 Bird Box by Josh Malerman Post: The Most Terrifying Books The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones A People’s History of the US by Howard Zinn The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh (tw: violence towards women and children including rape and domestic violence; terminated pregnancy; harm to animals) Wonder Woman: Warbringer (that whole DC series also) by Leigh Bardugo The Sidekick Squad by CB Lee (Not Your Sidekick) An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie, transl. by James Kirkup Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee (rec’d by Jaime Herndon) A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal (rec’d by Neha Patel) (cw: emotionally abusive home situation; difficulties with pregnancy; discussion of sex-selective abortion; assisted suicide; sexual harassment & misogyny) The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Fence by CS Pacat, Johanna the Mad, Joana La Fuente, and Jim Campbell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams. Trigger warnings: pet death, suicide This episode is sponsored by Scholastic. 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 fantasy heists, novellas, historical fiction about Italy, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Book Trip, by C.J. Duarte, and Creatures by Crissy Van Meter, now in paperback from Algonquin Books. 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 Alone by EJ Noyes, Mine by Georgia Beers, and The Secret of Sleepy Hollow by Andi Marquette (rec’d by Wynnde) The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, Revised Edition by Karen Gordon (rec’d by Diane) Books Discussed Want by Cindy Pon Warcross by Marie Lu (tw: harm to children) Two Old Women by Velma Wallis The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette De Bodard (tw: PTSD, harm to women and children) Renegades by Marissa Meyer Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (tw: graphic violence) Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (tw: slavery) The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi (tw: depiction of violent anti-Semitism; racism; child-abuse) The Vatican Princess by CW Gortner Juliet by Ann Fortier (rec’d by Jess Pryde) How to Be Danish by Patrick Kingsley Incarceration Nations by Baz Dreisinger Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong. This episode is sponsored by The Truth Project by Dante Medema. 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 characters with social anxiety, “intellectual angst,” gothic thrillers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Storybound Podcast, Elsewhere by Dean Koontz, and Sourcebooks. 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 Delicacy by David Foenkinos, translated by Bruce Benderson (rec’d by Catleen) The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller (rec’d by Heather) Abby Jimenez’s The Friend Zone & The Happy Ever After Playlist (rec’d by Nicole) Books Discussed Humankind by Rutger Bregman, transl. by Elizabeth Manton and Erica Moore When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer Modern Lovers by Emma Straub Blood at the Root by Patrick Phillips Mighty Be Our Powers by Leymah Gbowee with Carol Mithers (tw: domestic abuse) Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman Magnolia Sword by Sherry Thomas Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends A Hero Born by Jin Yong. This episode is sponsored by Zora and Me: The Summoner by Victoria Bond. 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 Sharifah discuss horror in the woods, inclusive Thanksgiving books, copyediting, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Storybound Podcast, Saga Press, publishers of Rebecca Roanhorse’s Black Sun, and the Award-Winning Bestseller: Athena’s Choice. 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 Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher The Very First Americans by Cara Ashrose Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message by Chief Jake Swamp, illustrated by Erwin Printup, Jr. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson The Sellout by Paul Beatty Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic. This episode is sponsored by Candlewick Press. 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 character-driven sci-fi, non-Western fantasy, escapist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Storybound Podcast, Saga Press, publishers of speculative fiction like Stephen Graham Jones’ THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS, Rebecca Roanhorse’s BLACK SUN, and more, and Care/of. 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 Stepping Stone by Karin Kallmaker Strawberry Summer by Melissa Brayden Too Close to Touch by Georgia Beers Just Jorie by Robin Alexander (rec’d by Wynnde) Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Baron (rec’d by Lauren) Books Discussed The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh (tw: rape, murder, child abuse) Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess (tw: assault, bigotry, separation from a child) Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (tw: violence against children, sexual assault, eugenics) Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp, as rec’d by Waubgeshig Rice (Recommended) (tw: child abuse) Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow The Chilling Effect and Prime Deceptions by Valerie Valdes Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai (tw: abusive parent, panic attacks) Shades of Magic series by VE Schwab The Books of Ambha (Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash) by Tasha Suri When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik (tw: racism, fatphobia) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell. Trigger warnings: rape, racism and racial slurs This episode is sponsored by Tor Teen. 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 YA with no romance, classics worth picking up, escapist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Storybound Podcast, The Mason House, available now from Lanternfish Press, and Skyhunter by Marie Lu, with Fierce Reads. 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 Pirate Cruncher by Johnny Duddle and anything by Isabella Bird (rec’d by Mel) Books Discussed Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner (rec’d by Tirzah) Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee 1984 by George Orwell (tw: torture) Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (tw: all the bad things happen y’all — rape, harm to children, etc) The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert The Switch by Beth O’Leary Swordspoint and Tremontaine by Ellen Kushner, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Malinda Lo, etc. American Indian Stories by Zitkála Sá The Destroy Series in Uncanny Magazine and Lightspeed Magazine Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin Into the Planet by Jill Heinerth 2AM at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (tw: racism, prejudice within minority communities) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso. This episode is sponsored by See Her Die by Melinda Leigh. 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 look back on five years of recommendations and whether or not they would still recommend old favorites in this special 250th episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Storybound Podcast, White Fox by Sara Faring, with Fierce Reads, and Penguin Teen. 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 Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Life After Life by Kate Atkinson The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu Milkman by Anna Burns Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston The Wangs Vs. The World by Jade Chang Acacia: The War With the Mein by David Anthony Durham The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole Infomocracy by Malka Older Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Physical Disobedience by Sarah Hays Coomer. This episode is sponsored by Norton Young Readers, publishers of Bearmouth, by Liz Hyder, winner of the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize for Older Readers. 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 graphic novels for kids, wanderlust reads, grown characters in fantasy, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The History of Literature – A Podcast, Traitor by Amanda McCrina with Fierce Reads, and Flatiron Books, publisher of The Insomniacs by Marit Weisenberg. 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 Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search if God in America by Jeff Chu, Unclobber by Colby Martin, and One Coin Found (rec’d by Amy) Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays vs. Christians Debate by Justin Lee (rec’d by Jessica) Books Discussed Border by Kapka Kassabova The Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian, rec’d by Aram Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff Little Witch Academia by Yoh Yoshinari, Keisuke Sato, Trigger The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite Things Hoped For by Chencia C. Higgins Grumpy Monkey by Suzanne Lang, illus. by Max Lang The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad and S.K. Ali, illustrated by Hatem Aly The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert Travels With Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn The Wolf of Oren–Yaro by KS Villoso Tea With the Black Dragon by R.A. MacAvoy The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer The Magical Language of Others by EJ Koh (tw: suicidal thoughts and attempts, disordered eating, domestic violence, sexual assault, depression) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. This episode is sponsored by Size Zero by Abigail Mangin. 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 memoirs by trans men, audiobooks for kids, some fantasy and dystopia, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The History of Literature – A Podcast, Skyhunter by Marie Lu, and Care/of. 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 Practical Magic trilogy by Alice Hoffman and Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (rec’d by Sibyl) The Harwood Spellbook series by Stephanie Burgis, starting with Snowspelled (rec’d by Laura) Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson (rec’d by Jennifer) Changing Our Mind by David Gushee (rec’d by Jessica) Books Discussed Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortbery / Daniel M. Lavery Sorted by Jackson Bird Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee (tw: child molestation, mugging, transphobia, PTSD & disassociation) Soulless by Gail Carriger The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall Want by Cindy Pon Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi Hey YA Episode: On YA “Boy Books” And Driving In The Midwest The City We Became by NK Jemisin Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole (When No One Is Watching) Princess in Black by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, illustrated by LeUyen Pham Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace Dear Martin by Nic Stone A Boy And His Dog at the End of the World by CA Fletcher (cw: reference to suicide, harm to animals, reference to rape, use of gender reveal as a plot point) Like a Mother by Angela Garbes From the Hips by Rebecca Odes and Ceridwen Morris (rec’d by Jaime) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss morally ambiguous main characters, chapter book read-alouds, female artists, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The History of Literature – A Podcast, Scholastic, and Sourcebooks. 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 Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile (rec’d by Abigail) Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine by Eric Weiner (rec’d by Michelle) Stephen King: Firestarter and The Gunslinger (rec’d by Kelsey) Books Discussed Clarice Lispector: The Complete Stories, transl. by Katrina Dodson) My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite The Bible’s Yes to Same-Sex Marriage by Mark Achtemeier This Is A Book For Parents Of Gay Kids by Dannielle Owens-Reid Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner Waiting in the Wings by Tara Frejas From Scratch by Tembi Locke The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, transl. by Philip Gabriel Everlasting Nora by Marie Miranda Cruz Post: Read-Alouds for Middle School The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (tw domestic violence, racism) Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-Sook, translated by Chi-Young Kim (Tw: violence against women) Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough (tw: rape, torture) The Diary of Frida Kahlo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community. 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 Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu annotated by Carmen Maria Machado Danika’s Post, “Bringing The Lesbian Vampire Home“ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss cathartic reads, wintery settings, historical fiction for kids, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The History of Literature – A Podcast, The Switch by Beth O’Leary, and Kind of a Big Deal by Shannon Hale, with Fierce Reads. 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 House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (rec’d by Christina) The Bear by Claire Cameron (rec’d by Eugenia) Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara and The Flavia DeLuce series by Alan Bradley (The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie) (rec’d by Sherry) Finding God in the Waves: How I lost my faith and found it again in science by Mike McHargue (rec’d by Treva) All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M Johnson (rec’d by Stacey) Books Discussed The Novice by Taran Matharu Discworld: The Wyrd Sisters (Witches #1) or The Wee Free Men (Tiffany Aching #1) by Terry Pratchett A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos, transl by Hildegarde Serle “Cold Wind” by Nicola Griffith Spider-Man: Far From Home by Preeti Chhibber, illustrated by Stéphane Kardos Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru Teen Titans Go!: Party! Party! by Sholly Fisch and Lea Hernandez Seidman Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones (tw: racism, police violence) The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (tw: rape/sexual assault, genocide of indigenous populations, medical experimentation) The Yield by Tara June Winch (tw child sexual abuse, racism, genocide) All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern The Kingston Cycle by CL Polk (TW: PTSD, violence to women and children) Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosín, illustrated by Lee White, translated by EM Connor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib. Trigger warnings: racism, child abuse. This episode is sponsored by Amazon Publishing. 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 pageturners, novels with a strong sense of place, some romance, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The History of Literature – A Podcast, Amulet Books and Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko, and Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls. 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 Rogue Pirate’s Bride by Shana Galen Captured by Beverly Jenkins Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique (tw: rape of a child) All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (tw: violence against women incl. sexual assault, harm to animals) The Switch by Beth O’Leary His Perfect Partner by Priscilla Oliveras (cw: family member with cancer) The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Rebelwing by Andrea Tang A Big Ship At the Edge of the Universe by Alex White To the End of June by Cris Beam Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin Fire and Ice by Rachel Spangler Roller Girl by Vanessa North Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends The Bride Test by Helen Hoang. This episode is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy. 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 host Rincey Abraham from Read or Dead discuss thrillers written by women of color, business books for new employees, and what to read if you’re giving up on Cormoran Strike. This episode is sponsored by Read or Dead, Book Riot’s mystery/thriller podcast, This is My America by Kim Johnson, and Lobizona by Romina Garber. 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 No Hard Feelings by Liz Fosslien and Molly West Duffy The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo Autumn by Ali Smith The Dutch House by Ann Patchett The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson All Systems Red by Martha Wells The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Miracle Creek by Angie Kim Cutting Season by Attica Locke A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh Fatal Affair by Marie Force Betty Rhyzyk series by Kathleen Kent (Book One, The Dime) Tana French! (In the Woods is the first book) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Fairest by Meredith Talusan. Trigger warning: child abuse This episode is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of His & Hers by Alice Feeney. 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 diverse fantasy, summer resort reads, and spiritual nonfiction in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Read or Dead, Book Riot’s mystery/thriller podcast, Care/of, and Book Riot Insiders. 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 Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck, Anything by Louis de Bernieres, but particularly Birds Without Wings and Notwithstanding, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney, The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill, Maggie O’Farrell’s new book Hamnet (rec’d by Sibyl) Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Ms Marvel, The Totally Awesome Hulk, and the Miles Morales Spider-Man books (rec’d by Angie) Books Discussed Song of Blood and Stone by L Penelope (tw: racism) Sorcerer to the Crown and The True Queen by Zen Cho The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith Stalking God by Anjali Kumar (rec’d by Rebecca) A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn Artifact (Jaya Jones) by Gigi Pandian (cw: stalker) Mary Russell Sherlock Holmes novels (The Beekeeper’s Apprentice) Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (rec’d by Jeff) The Summer Book by Tove Jansson Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt An Easy Death (Gunnie Rose #1) by Charlaine Harris (tw: mention of rape & sexual assault but very brief, violence) Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jay Robin Brown (tw: homophobia) Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (they/them) (tw: transphobia) Alex Cabal, cover designer What’s Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott (tw: domestic violence) The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan (tw: domestic violence) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung. Trigger warnings: mention of past child abuse, bullying, racial slurs This episode is sponsored by Epic Reads and The Stepping Off Place by Cameron Rosenblum. 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 indie horror books, feeling connected, cinnamon roll characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Chronicles of Now podcast from Pushkin Industries, Flatiron Books, publisher of His & Hers by Alice Feeney, and Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle, now available from Algonquin Books. 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 Douglas Preston’s Monster of Florence (rec’d by Kim) Dawn by Octavia Butler (book 1 in her Xenogenesis series) and The Caphenon: Book 1 in The Chronicles of Alsea series by Fletcher DeLancey (rec’d by Wynnde) Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos (rec’d by Charleen) Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean (rec’d by Kristi) JY Yang’s Tensorate Series (First book is The Black Tides of Heaven) (rec’d by Amber) The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer (rec’d by Lee) In the Shadow of Statues by Mitch Landrieu (rec’d by Laura) Books Discussed The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson Saga: Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples Seraphina by Rachel Hartman The Overstory by Richard Powers (tw: suicide, self harm) Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Somewhere in the Middle by Deborah Francisco Douglas Born a Crime by Trevor Noah The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (tw: racism, harm to children) Elegy For the Undead by Matthew Vesely (October 13 2020) from Lanternfish Press (Seanan McGuire’s thread) The Bromance Book Club series by Lyssa Kay Adams Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden (tw: body horror) The Tensorate Series by JY Neon Yang (tw: harm to children) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie. Trigger warnings: racism, child abuse This episode is sponsored by Malorie, the thrilling sequel to Bird Box, from New York Times bestselling author Josh Malerman. 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
Jenn and guest Jeff O’Neal discuss business books, chapter books for picky readers, biographies, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, and Flatiron Books, publisher of Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust. 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 Loonshots by Safi Bahcall Good Boss, Bad Boss by Robert Sutton What If by Randall Munroe Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi The Orchard by Adele Robertson Readers of the Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald The Cheffe by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stump Mayor by Michael Nutter Annotated: Democracy by the Book episode Lead From The Outside by Stacey Abrams Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill Book Riot Podcast on Weather by Jenny Offill Lily to the Rescue by W. Bruce Cameron Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster James Baldwin by David Leeming Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff The Turner House by Angela Flournoy How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang The Neopolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, edited by Nisi Shawl. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes. 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 coming-of-age literary fiction, M/M sci-fi, novellas, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Flatiron Books, publisher of Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby, and Ecco. 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 Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen (rec’d by Laura) Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (rec’d by Elizabeth) The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (rec’d by Maria) Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc Books Discussed Five Little Indians by Michelle Good (tw: rape, child abuse, racism) Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo Crucet Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather The Ghurka and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hussein Burning Roses by SL Huang (lots of triggers incl. child abuse and violence against animals) (September 2020) I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver (tw: enbyphobia) Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller (cw: flayings and PTSD) We Are the Ants by Shuan David Hutchinson (tw: homophobia, suicide) Chaos Station by Jenn Burke and Kelly Jensen (cw: PTSD) Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (tw: slavery) The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue The Phantom Unicorn by Zetta Elliott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Shepherd by Catherine Jinks. Trigger warnings: harm to children and animals This episode is sponsored by HarperVia, Books that Take you Everywhere. 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 series to get excited about, 8th grade read-alouds, Star Wars read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Care/of, and The Patient by Jasper DeWitt. 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 Anna K by Jenny Lee (TW: underage substance abuse & alcohol) (rec’d by Nicole) The Need by Helen Phillips (rec’d by Courtney) Books Discussed The Khorasan Archives by Ausma Zehanat Khan (tw slavery) The Poppy War series by RF Kuang (tw: war crimes incl. rape and genocide) SFF Yeah: Most Anticipated Series episode The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse by Piu Marie Eatwell The River of Doubt by Candice Millard Escape from Aleppo by NH Senzai (tw war) Clean Getaway by Nic Stone Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie Murderbot by Martha Wells The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler, trans Charlotte Collins (tw Nazis) A Perfect Spy by John Le Carré Fool’s Crow by James Welch (rec’d by Jeff) (tw war crimes) There There by Tommy Orange (TW: gun violence and rape) Welcome Home, edited by Eric Smith Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends The AI Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole. Trigger warnings: descriptions of panic attacks and PTSD This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life. 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 summery reads, dance stories, essay collections, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Harper Perennial and Twisted by Emma Dabiri, and Humanity’s Gauntlet: The Archons Rise by Brian A. Sieteski, June 17th 2020. 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 Fate of Stars by SD Simper, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and A Fish Out of Water by Karin Kallmaker (rec’d by Wynnde) Taste by Kris Bryant (rec’d by Wynnde) Ann McMann’s Dust, Jericho, and Beowulf for Cretins (rec’d by Wynnde) Books Discussed Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller Each of Us A Desert by Mark Oshiro (out in September 2020) (tw: abusive parent, graphic violence) The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling Zero Sum Game by SL Huang The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma A Time To Dance by Padma Venkatraman We’re Not From Here by Geoff Rodkey Sal and Gabi Break The Universe by Carlos Hernandez Conjure Women by Afia Atakora (TW slavery, rape) Unraveling by Karen Lord (tw: harm to children) My Time Among the Whites by Jennine Capó Crucet Beyoncé In Formation by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley Far From You by Tess Sharpe (TW homophobia, drug addiction) So Lucky by Nicola Griffith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton. Trigger warning: harm to animals This episode is sponsored by Wednesday Books. 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 Iranian literature, light-hearted reads, favorite picture books, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Hey YA, Book Riot’s own podcast about all things young adult lit, Little, Brown and Company, and Amazon Publishing. 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 I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts (tw: suicide) Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai (tw: abusive parent) Shepherd by Catherine Jinks (tw: harm to children and, like, every animal possible) The Broken Earth Trilogy (The Fifth Season #1) by NK Jemisin (tw: so much harm to children, forced breeding) The Immortals of Tehran by Alireza Taheri Araghi (tw: suicide) Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara (tw: harm to children) Want by Cindy Pon The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland (tw: child abuse) Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik (tw: racism, religious intolerance, internalized fat-shaming) Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima Thank You, Octopus by Darren Farrell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson. This episode is sponsored by Harper Perennial and Twisted by Emma Dabiri. 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 give queer reading recommendations in honor of Pride month in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Hey YA, Book Riot’s own podcast about all things young adult lit, TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, Book Riot’s personalized reading recommendation service, which now has gifting! and Book Riot Insiders. 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 Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (rec’d by Elizabeth) Books The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember Aquicorn Cove by Katie O’Neill Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker Lumberjanes Vol. 1 by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters, Brooke A. Allen, and Faith Hicks Courting the Countess by Jenny Frame A Fairytale of Possibilities by Kiki Archer (rec’d by the Lesbrary) Check out our previous episode for Savannah recs The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner Bingo Love by Tee Franklin, Jenn St-Onge, and Joy San Naturally Tan by Tan France (tw racism, homophobia, suicidal thoughts) How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (tw: child abuse) Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan (rec’d by Sharifah) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha. This episode is sponsored by Grand Central Publishing and Iris Johansen’s new action-packed, romance-infused thriller, The Persuasion. 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 recommend anti-racist literature in this week’s episode of Get Booked, in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift!, Libro.FM, and Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community. 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 & Other Notes: More discussion on Anti-Racism So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo White Fragility by Robin Diangelo How to Be an AntiRacist by Ibram X. Kendi Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (and Stamped by Jason Reynolds) Not Quite Snow White by Ashley Franklin and Ebony Glenn Kidlit These Days podcast Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad The Fire This Time, edited by Jesmyn Ward Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States, edited by Maya Schenwar, Joe Macare, and Alana Yu-Lan Price Well-Read Black Girl, edited by Glory Edim The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David S. Treuer The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee Ibram Kendi’s Anti-Racist Reading list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift! 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 good books about houseplants, family-focused romance, quirky characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift! and Sourcebooks. 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 Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow (rec’d by Eric) Broken Wings by L-J Baker, Princess of Dorsa by Eliza Andrews, When Women Were Warriors by Catherine Wilson (the kindle version is free on Amazon!!), and everything Anna Burke has written (rec’d by Wynnde) Books Discussed I Don’t Want to Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, transl. by Tina A. Kover True Pretenses by Rose Lerner (ownvoices Jewish hero, tw: depictions of anti-Semitism) The Rogue Not Taken (Scandal & Scoundrel series) by Sarah MacLean Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu (tw: violent homophobia) Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzel Hall The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (tw slavery) Defending Angels by Mary Stanton (rec’d by Caitlin) Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (tw racism, harm to children) Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Wild at Home by Hilton Carter (IG: @hiltoncarter) Happy Cactus by John Pilbeam Gardeners’ World with Monty Don Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommeds Affections by Rodrigo Hasbún, translated by Sophie Hughes. Trigger warnings: Nazis, torture This episode is sponsored by Amazon Publishing. 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 Rebecca discuss nonfiction about the Midwest, whimsical reads, morally ambiguous characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libro FM, Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, and TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes. 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 River by Peter Heller and Nevada Barr’s Anna Pigeon series (rec’d by Kate) The Mike Bowditch series by Paul Doiron (The Poacher’s Son) (rec’d by Kate) Michael McGarrity (Kevin Kerney series), William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor series, Rich Curtin’s Manny Rivera mystery series, Paul Doiron (Mike Bowditch series), CJ Box (Joe Pickett series), Nevada Barr (Anna Pigeon series) (rec’d by Audrey) Books Discussed Honey Olives Octopus by Christopher Bakken Open City by Teju Cole American Harvest by Marie Mutsuki Mockett Heartland by Sarah Smarsh How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England by Ruth Goodman The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell His Hideous Heart, ed. by Dahlia Adler Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi The Girl Who Circumnavigated series by Catherynne M. Valente We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas (tw suicide) Penance by Kanae Minato Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss books about trees, great middle-grade audiobooks, dystopias, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Literati, and Flatiron Books, publisher of The Paris Hours by Alex George. 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 Casquette Girls by Alys Arden (rec’d by Summer) Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (rec’d by Summer) Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin (rec’d by Eric) Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong and In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (rec’d by Elizabeth) In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (rec’d by Michelle) Books Discussed Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Untamed by Glennon Doyle (tw: alcoholism, bulimia), Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel Jose Older Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver (tw: loss of a spouse, bigotry) The Overstory by Richard Powers (tw suicide, self-harm) Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst The Tensorate series (The Black Tides of Heaven #1) by JY Yang The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn Braised Pork by An Yu Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Everisto (tw: domestic violence, rape, racism, homophobia, self-harm, depression, child abuse) I Am Justice by Diana Munoz Stewart (tw sexual abuse of children) Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. 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 books about disabled heroines, high fantasy, and a bunch of murdery reads in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Lit Stitch: 25 Cross-Stitch Patterns for Book Lovers, made by Book Riot and Abrams, TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations, and Custom House Books, publisher of Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas. 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 Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (rec’d by Suzanne) Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Marion Keyes and Kate Bowler’s book Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved (rec’d by Kristi) Books Discussed A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Bridgid Kemmerer The Pretty One by Keah Brown (tw: discussion of suicidal ideation, racism, ableism) Wicked Fox by Kat Cho The Element of Fire by Martha Wells (cw: abusive parent) The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg (TW murder) Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke, narrated by JD Jackson (cw: racial slurs) Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood Odd One Out by Nic Stone Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (tw slavery) The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu The Lost Man by Jane Harper (tw rape, domestic violence, child abuse) As Long As We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Chaney (tw: violence towards women & children, including imprisonment, rape, child abuse, domestic violence; suicide, graphic violence) Semiosis by Sue Burke Xenogenesis/Lilith’s Brood by Octavia Butler (tw: compulsion/coercion, tentacles) (Dawn #1) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Little Dancer by Brianna Hale. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. 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 escapist reads, Gothic fantasy novels, and lady detectives in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Hermione Granger for President 2020 campaign, TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, 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. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed The Gauntlet and The Battle by Karuna Riazi The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch Weather by Jenny Offill Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz (tw, MANY, incl: graphic harm to children, drug use, sexual assault, mental illness, homophobia, self-harm, suicidal ideation, racism) Renegades by Marissa Meyer Lawless by Jeff Salane If We Were Villains by ML Rio (tw partner violence) Bunny by Mona Awad (rec’d by Kelly) (tw: violence towards animals) From the Wreck by Jane Rawson Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison Death Below Stairs by Jennifer Ashley Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends The Outrun by Amy Liptrot. This episode is sponsored by Summer Darlings by Brooke Lea Foster, published by Gallery Books. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Content warnings: natural animal injury & death, mental illness, suicidal ideation, assault and attempted rape, struggles with addiction. 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 poetry, East Asian fiction and fantasy, books in translation, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Book Marks Journal, Tailored Book Recommendations, and Book Riot Insiders. 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 Two Old Women by Velma Wallis (rec’d by Terry) The Blind Contessa’s New Machine by Carey Wallace (rec’d by Terry) Books Discussed How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee (tw rape) Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Liu (Grace of Kings #1) Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (rec’d by Tika) The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer (Cinder #1) Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, transl by Ginny Tapley Takemori A Hero Born by Jin Yong (Louis Cha), translated by Anna Holmwood Recommended with Sherry Thomas Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor Jade City by Fonda Lee (tw: discussion of child abuse and child pornography) The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth (tw: self harm, fatal overdose, torture, gore) The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett All the Wild Hungers by Karen Babine Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. 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 cranky old ladies, rich people problems, great graphic novels, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, Literati, and Book Riot Insiders. 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 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Bachman and The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (rec’d by Mardy) Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger (rec’d by Kim) The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (rec’d by Kelly) The Road to Nowhere series by Meg Elison (rec’d by Nicole) World War Z by Max Brooks (rec’d by Elizabeth) Books Discussed Spirit Run by Noe Álvarez The Outrun by Amy Liptrot To Have and To Hoax by Martha Waters An Elderly Lady is Up To No Good by Helene Tursten, transl. by Marlaine Delargy Jonesy #1 by Sam Humphries, illustrated by Cailtin Rose Boyle Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Vol. 1: BFF by Amy Reeder and Brandon Montclare, illustrated by Natacha Bustos (also, Rocket Girl) Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty by Ramona Ausubel (rec’d by Rebecca) The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy Naturally Tan by Tan France (tw: discussion of racism, depression, and suicidal ideation) Normal People by Sally Rooney (tw: emotional abuse) Chemistry by Weike Wang (tw: bad parents) This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Outline by Rachel Cusk (rec’d by Jessica) Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg (tw: sick child) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki. Correction: Jillian and Mariko Tamaki are cousins, which Jenn actually knew but still said they were sisters! She blames quarantine brain. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. 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
Get Booked is a weekly show of custom book recommendations, hosted by former independent booksellers and long-time recommenders Amanda Nelson and Jenn Northington of Book Riot. Every Thursday they dive into reader questions to help you find your next great read, and each Monday they take turns recommending one particular favorite backlist title on The Handsell.
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Amanda and Jenn discuss novels about deaf characters, immersive series, dark and angry fantasy, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, Catapult, and Harper Paperbacks. 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 Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis (rec’d by Malory) Jazz Moon by Joe Okonkwo and The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis Books Discussed The London Steampunk series (Kiss of Steel #1) by Bec McMaster Psy-Changeling series by Nalini Singh, start with Silver Silence (Psy-Changeling Trinity #1) The City We Became by NK Jemisin The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade #1) by Seth Dickinson (tw: racism, homophobia, torture, violence, sexual assault, harm to children) Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly Friend (With Benefits) Zone by Laura Brown The Word for Woman is Wilderness by Abi Andrews, rec’d by Sharifah Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver (tw: cancer, death of a spouse, bigotry, probably others) Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel The Book of M by Peng Shepherd (tw: threat of sexual violence, gore) We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry Kushiel’s Dart (Phedre’s Trilogy) by Jacqueline Carey (tw: abduction and rape) My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Neapolitan Novels) (tw domestic violence) The Dime by Kathleen Kent (rec’d by basically everyone) (tw: sexism, homophobia) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends From Scratch by Tembi Locke. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations. 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 platonic relationship reads, great chapter books, political memoirs, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Flatiron Books, publishers of Miss Austen by Gill Hornby, and Wednesday Books. 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 An Equal Music, by Vikrim Seth and The Fionavar Tapestry series by Guy Gavriel Kay (The Summer Tree #1) (rec’d by Alicia) Sourdough by Robin Sloan (rec’d by Roxane) Books Discussed Lab Girl by Hope Jahren New Waves by Kevin Nguyen Thea Stilton series by Thea and Geronimo Stilton Great Chapter Books post Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson, beloved of Liberty These Truths by Jill Lepore The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy The Tufa series by Alex Bledsoe (The Hum and the Shiver #1) The Acacia series by David Anthony Durham (The War with the Mein #1) Dealing with Dragons series by Patricia Wrede (rec’d by Aly) An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows No Higher Honor by Condoleezza Rice Lazy B by Sandra Day O’Connor (rec’d by Jeff) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Hild by Nicola Griffith. This episode is sponsored by Book of the Month. 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 must-read literary fiction, queer fantasy reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Flatiron Books, publishers of The Night Country by Melissa Albert, and TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Find our bookish COVID 19 coverage 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. Feedback The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (rec’d by Stephanie) Symphony for the City of the Dead by M. T. Anderson and the Classical Breakdown podcast (rec’d by Laura C) The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia (rec’d by Summer) Books Discussed My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (tw: sexual abuse of children) Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (tw: harm to children) Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover How to Be a Family by Dan Kois A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (tw: slavery and associated violence) Orlando by Virginia Woolf A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos, trans by Hildegard Serle Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (tw: body horror) The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel (tw: bubonic plague) The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends A Beautiful Work in Progress by Mirna Valerio. This episode is sponsored by the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners, Christina Lauren. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Mirna Valerio on Instagram: themirnavator 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 tragic romances, political intrigue, and nostalgic summer novels in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, and by Harper Perennial, and Orbit Books, publisher of visionary author N.K. Jemisin’s new novel, THE CITY WE BECAME. 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 Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (TW suicide) A Separation by Katie Kitamura None of the Above by IW Gregorio When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff and Kaylani Juanita Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (TW sexual assault, police violence) One Day by David Nicholls Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston The Book of Delights by Ross Gay Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson Post: Fictional Pandemics Severance by Ling Ma Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy #1) by Amitav Ghosh Touched by an Alien by Gini Koch Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends The Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend. This episode is sponsored by Cross Her Heart by Melinda Leigh. 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 historical reads, female friendship, classical music, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, Simon & Schuster, and Care/of. 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 Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (rec’d by Brannan) Books Discussed Carry On by Rainbow Rowell Lenora Bell (How The Duke Was Won) Sharks in the Time of Saviours by Kawai Strong Washburn (TW: homophobia) The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies (tw: violent hate crime, racism) The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung A Pale Light in the Black by KB Wagers (tw: emotionally abusive parents) Done Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon Lumberjanes: Beware The Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, and Brooke Allen Fryderyk Chopin by Alan Walker Before There Was Mozart by Lesa Cline-Ransome The Other Mozart by Hugh Brewster and Eric Velasquez Podcast recommendation: The Open Ears Project Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon (tw: mental illness slurs) The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune Alexis Hall (For Real) Cat Sebastian Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thomas (A Study in Scarlet Women) (TW sexual abuse of children) A Death of No Importance by Mariah Fredericks (Jane Prescott #1) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations. 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
Jenn and special guest Nicole Young, of the Kidlit These Days podcast, discuss Robin Hood, rom-coms, novels about family drama, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski, with Fierce Reads, and Lerner Books. 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 Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg (tw: transphobia and/or fetishization, racism) Wintersong & Shadowsong by S. Jae Jones (tw: self-harm) 45 Pounds (More or Less) by K.A. Barson (tw: fatphobia) The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood by Tony Lee, illustrated by Sam Hart and Artur Fujita Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik (tw: racial harassment, fatphobia) The Proposal or Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg (tw: domestic violence) The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom Tracked by Jenny Martin The Matchmaker’s List by Sonya Lalli Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann (tw: ace-phobia, sexual harassment) To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu. This episode is sponsored by 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Latinx authors in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Spirit Run by Noé Álvarez, on sale now from Catapult, Flatiron Books, publisher of The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner, and Sourcebooks. 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 Magic Treehouse series by Mary Pope Osborne (rec’d by Stacy) The Afterward by EK Johnston (rec’d by Cara) Books Discussed Crashing Into Her by Mia Sosa Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz (tw: child abuse, domestic violence, self harm, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, rape, homophobia, struggles with mental illness, addiction) We Set the Dark on Fire & We Unleash the Merciless Storm by Tehlor Kay Mejia (tw: assault & abuse of women, homophobia) Revolution Sunday by Wendy Guerra, transl by Achy Obejas Carved in Bone by Michael Nava (tw: use of slurs, violent homophobia, intimate partner violence, rape, suicide attempts, internalized homophobia) Yuyi Morales Spirit Run by Noé Álvarez Diamond City by Francesca Flores Dominicana by Angie Cruz (tw domestic violence) Sabrina and Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine (tw violence against women) Planet for Rent by Yoss, translated by David Frye Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Man Without a Face by Masha Gessen. This episode is sponsored by 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss books about refugees, fantasy series, indie horror, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, Mariner Books, and Flatiron Books, publisher of Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore. 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 The Red Abbey Chronicles by Maria Turtschaninoff (TW rape, gender-based violence) the Kate Daniels series (Magic Bites #1) by Ilona Andrews Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai Books About the Immigrant Experience post The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (tw: mention of rape/sexual assault, genocide of indigenous populations, medical experimentation) North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer Press) The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (Quirk) London Underground series (From Duke Till Dawn #1) by Eva Leigh Captured by Beverly Jenkins (tw: violence related to slavery, incl. reference to forced breeding) Sam Wu is Not Afraid series by Katie and Kevin Tsang, illustrated by Nathan Reed The Last-Last Day of Summer by Lamar Giles and Dapo Adeola The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark Falling In Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson (tw: sexual assault) Indistractable by Nir Eyal Calm and Headspace apps Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Blake: Or, The Huts of America by Martin R. Delaney. This episode is sponsored by Random House. 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. Notes Nisi Shawl’s “Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss long distance romances, read-alikes for Tamora Pierce, punny titles, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Marks, a customizable journal to record your reading life, William Morrow Paperbacks, publisher of The Lucky One by Lori Rader-Day, and Never Kiss a Duke by Megan Frampton, published by Avon Books. 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 Graceling by Kristin Cashore The Riddle-Master of Hed series, Patricia McKillip The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (tw violence, harm to animals) The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia Dragons in a Bag by Zeta Elliott Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee (tw aphobia) Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory Play It Again by Aidan Wayne Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons (tw torture and whatnot) Master of Restless Shadows by Ginn Hale (tw: abuse & cruelty, torture, prejudice, racism, self-harm, discussion of rape) The Pun Also Rises by John Pollack Here’s Looking at Euclid by Alex Bellos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on The Handsell, Amanda recommends Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble. This episode is sponsored by Random House Children’s Books. 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 are joined by Sarah MacLean and Jen Prokop of the Fated Mates podcast in this romance special episode! This episode is sponsored by Book Marks, a customizable journal to record your reading life, Sourcebooks, and Two Lines Press. 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 Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes What Happens in Scotland by Jennifer McQuiston One Fine Duke by Lenora Bell Carry On by Rainbow Rowell How To Be a Movie Star by TJ Klune (tw: discussion of suicidal thoughts & depression) American Dreamer by Adriana Herrera Band Sinister by KJ Charles Take the Lead by Alexis Daria Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev (tw: discussion of rape & assault, racism & police encounters, fears around disability, miscarriage and difficulties with pregnancy) Scoring Off the Field by Naima Simone Wrong Bed, Right Roommate by Rebecca Brooks One and Only by Jenny Holiday Priest by Sierra Simone Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson The Vegas Top Guns series by Katie Porter Dark Needs at Night’s Edge by Kresley Cole Loading… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on The Handsell, Jenn recommends The Longshot by Katie Kitamura. This episode is sponsored by Holiday House. 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 books about life after divorce, YA read-alouds, queer science fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Novel Gazing, Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast, Workman Publishing, publisher of Let’s Be Weird Together: A Book About Love, by Brooke Barker and Boaz Frankel, 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. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback The Shades of Magic trilogy by V.E. Schwab (rec’d by Courtney) A Madness of Angels: The Matthew Swift series by Kate Griffin (pen name of Catherine Webb) (rec’d by Danielle) Books Discussed Untamed by Glennon Doyle Melton (March 10, 2020) Two Old Women by Velma Wallis Warcross by Marie Lu Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett (tw: STI stigma, confusion around sexuality) For the Love of Men by Liz Plank Thou Shalt Not be a Jerk by Eugene Cho (March 1, 2020) Citizen by Claudia Rankine God Land by Elizabeth Lenz Realm of Ash by Tasha Suri (tw: family violence) Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Kreuger (tw: animal death) The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (tw: violence, tentacle stuff) Circe by Madeline Miller (tw sexual assault) The Reluctant Queen (Queens of Renthia #2) by Sarah Beth Durst Parenting In SFF Post Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda recommends Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper (tw: homophobia). This episode is sponsored by Penguin Teen. 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 heroines in high fantasy, nonbinary reads, Swedish fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Novel Gazing, Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast, Scout Press, an imprint of Gallery Books, and Book Riot Insiders. 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 Survived by Her Longtime Companion by Chris Paynter (rec’d by Wynnde) Montmorency series by Eleanor Updale, Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone and The Woman in White, In the Woods by Tana French (rec’d by Miranda) The Living by Annie Dillard (rec’d by Katie) Books Discussed The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F. C. Yee Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara (Chronicles of Elantra #1) (tw: harm to children, graphic violence) No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll Dreadnought by April Daniels (tw: transphobia, emotional abuse) Annex by Rich Larson (tw transphobia, deadnaming, mild-ish body horror) The Outside by Ada Hoffmann (tw: body horror, self-harm) The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton Daughters of the Storm by Kim Wilkins (tw: harm to children) Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (tw self-harm, sexual assault) Queer Magic by Tomás Prower Camilla Lackberg Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck (tw: body horror, issues of consent, suicide) Coraline by Neil Gaiman Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (tw: harm to children) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss books about mother-daughter relationships, climate change primers, engaging audiobooks, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian, new in paperback from Algonquin Books, and Book Riot Insiders. 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 Daevabad Trilogy (City of Brass #1) by S.A. Chakraborty, Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, and City of Spires series (City of Strife #1) (rec’d by Eric) Books Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin The Magical Language of Others by EJ Koh (tw: suicidal thoughts and attempts, disordered eating, domestic violence, sexual assault, depression) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (trigger warnings: child abuse) The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells Climate Changed by Philippe Squarzoni NW by Zadie Smith Brick Lane by Monica Ali (tw: domestic violence) Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (tw: slavery) Book of Night Women by Marlon James, narrated by Robin Miles (tw: slavery & related violence) Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (rec’d by Jamie Canaves) How To Be a Movie Star by TJ Klune (tw: suicidal thoughts, depression, anxiety) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Tentacle by Rita Indiana, translated by Achy Obejas (tw: sexual assault, transphobia, homophobia, use of slurs, racism) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss alternate history novels, more murder, culturally diverse romance, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Novel Gazing, Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and Book Riot Insiders. 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 Sourdough by Robin Sloan (rec’d by Tara) A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (TW for child abuse and child sexual assault, domestic violence, self-harm, suicide, drug use) (rec’d by Kelsey) Melissa Brayden’s Soho Loft series and Seven Shores series, Ann McMan’s Jericho series, Lise Gold’s Compass series, and Harper Bliss’ Pink Bean (rec’d by Wynnde) The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill, Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee, Cities of Salt by Abdul Rahman Munif, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif (rec’d by Sibyl) Books Discussed The Lost Man by Jane Harper As Long As We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Chaney (tw: violence towards women & children, including imprisonment, rape, child abuse, domestic violence; suicide, graphic violence) Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao (TW rape, trafficking, child abuse) The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich (tw: violence towards women and children, lynching) The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke Everfair by Nisi Shawl (tw: racism and violence) You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott Penance by Kanae Minato (tw: harm to children) Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (tw: domestic violence, child abuse, rape) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss dark and twisty murder mysteries, books about the Vietnam War, literary women, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Rocky Mountain Press, and Sourcebooks. 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 Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown (rec’d by Sue) The Collectors series by Dot Hutchinsons (The Butterfly Garden & The Summer Children) (rec’d by Shontelle) Crime Junkie (rec’d by Shontelle) Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce (rec’d by Emma) Spain: The Root and the Flower by John A. Crow (rec’d by Chris) Books Discussed The Binding by Bridget Collins (tw homophobia, rape, child abuse) Witchmark by CL Polk (tw: PTSD, violence towards women & children) The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui The Gentleman Bastards series by Scott Lynch (The Lies of Locke Lamore) The Deep by Rivers Solomon (tw: suicidal ideation, self-harm, slavery) The Lying Room by Nicci French We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (tw: dog death, human death) Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (Highway 59 series) Still Life by Louise Penny Ali Smith’s Seasonal quartet (Autumn) The Cheffe by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stump The Rook by Daniel O’Malley The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss their resolution reads for 2020, including getting outside more, forming or breaking habits, dealing with social media, and more. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Dough Boys, another #BooksForTheMiddle by Paula Chase, Care/of. 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 Indistractable by Nir Eyal Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang How To Be Yourself by Ellen Hendriksen How to Stop Losing Your Shit With Your Kids by Carla Naumburg Atomic Habits by James Clear How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell The AI Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole Cabin Porn! Inside by Zach Klein and Freda Moon The Book of Delights by Ross Gay The Nature Fix by Florence Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Spanish history, mythology retellings, and more holiday recs in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder journal, the Read Harder Challenge, 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. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (rec’d by Kelly) The Weight of Chains by Lesley Connor (rec’d by Justin) Books Discussed We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby What Are You Doing Here? by Laina Dawes Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Small Change by Roan Parrish (tw: discussion of suicide) The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor The Ghosts of Spain by Giles Tremlett Pachinko by Min Jin Lee On Trails by Robert Moor Ms Marvel by G Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona No Hard Feelings by Liz Fosslien and Molly West Duffy Space Battle Lunchtime: Lights, Camera, Snacktion by Natalie Reiss Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley (tw: rape, war) Wake, Siren by Nina MacLaughlin (tw: rape, incest, assault, etc) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss magical seamstresses, feminist weddings, foodie fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, JIMMY Patterson Books, publisher of Ali Cross by James Patterson, and the Read Harder Challenge. 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 All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor (rec’d by Jaimee) A Knight in Central Park by Theresa Ragan (rec’d by Teresa) Time and Again by Jack Finney (rec’d by Sibyl) A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (rec’d by Sibyl) Books Discussed Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim Torn by Rowenna Miller Something New by Lucy Knisley (rec’d by Aly) Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim The Cheffe by Marie NDiaye, transl. by Jordan Stump The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai (tw: domestic abuse) Dating You Hating You by Christina Lauren Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee The Governess Game by Tessa Dare The Professor by Charlotte Stein Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (TW: harm to children, suicide, child sexual abuse) Heart Berries by Therese Marie Mailhot (tw: self-harm, domestic violence, struggles with mental health) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and guest Louise Johnson discuss unconventional heroines, cozy Hanukkah stories, children’s books about tolerance, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, Sponsored by Voracious and Little, Brown and Company, and Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi, with Fierce Reads. 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 & Links Paradox Bound by Peter Cline (rec’d by Stephanie) Stephanie’s Get Booked spreadsheet: bit.ly/getbookedrecs The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman (rec’d by Stephanie) The Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie (rec’d by Stephanie) The River by Peter Heller (rec’d by Elizabeth and Kayce) Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched by Amy Sutherland (rec’d by Molly) Beyond Basketball: Keywords for Success by Mike Krzyzewski and Jamie Krzyzewski Spatola Books Discussed Lighting the Flames by Sarah Wendell Eva Ibbotson – Madensky Square or A Countess Below Stairs The Pretty One by Keah Maria Brown The Million Pieces of Neena Gill by Emma Barton-Smith Wintersong by S. Jae Jones The Curious Tale of The Lady Caraboo by Catherine Johnson When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff Everything by Susie Day (Pea’s Book of Best Friends) The Empress by Ruby Lal The Wife’s Tale by Aida Edemariam The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley The Otherlife by Julia Gray The Moomins by Tove Jansson Lexicon by Max Barry A Void by Georges Perec My Name is Mina by David Almond Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss what to read after Where The Crawdad Sings, time travel fiction, challenging reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, The Liar’s Daughter by Megan Cooley Peterson, and Care/Of. 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 Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (rec’d by Miranda) Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (rec’d by Miranda) Books Discussed Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon (tw: ableist language and slurs around mental health) Dread Nation by Justina Ireland American Hippo by Sarah Gailey Steve and Me by Terri Irwin The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton Sum it Up by Pat Summit Wolfpack by Abby Wambach Deep Creek by Pam Houston The Overstory by Richard Powers (tw: suicide) A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko (tw: for everything) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn give book recommendations for holiday gift-giving. This episode is sponsored by TBR, The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali, a heart-rending story of family, love, and fate, available from Gallery Books, and TALION PUBLISHING LLC, publishers of the thrilling Talion Series by J.K. Franko. 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 Manazuru and The Briefcase by Hiromi Kawakami (rec’d by Cari and Brooke) The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa(rec’d by Cari) Anything by Haruki Murakami (rec’d by Cari) The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami (rec’d by Brooke) Books Discussed How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell Turbulence & Resistance by Samit Basu Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Loyal League series (An Extraordinary Union #1) by Alyssa Cole City of Brass (Daevabad Trilogy) by S.A. Chakraborty If the Fates Allow, edited by Annie Harper The Lotterys More or Less by Emma Donoghue (rec’d by Tirzah) (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, edited by Kelly Jensen Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh Dog Day by Alicia Gimenez Bartlett, translated by Nicholas Caistor (tw animal abuse) The Time in Between by Maria Dueñas, transl. by Daniel Hahn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss books about female sociopaths, horror, romance picks, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Flatiron Books, and Quantum by international bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 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 An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green Books Milkman by Anna Burns Brooklyn by Colm Toibin The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher (rec’d by Jess Woodbury) Wallbanger by Alice Clayton Odd One Out by Nic Stone An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten, translation by Marlaine Delargy Tampa by Alissa Nutting (tw: child abuse) Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston It Takes Two to Tumble by Cat Sebastian Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding The Wangs Vs. The World by Jade Chang Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss books about ghosts, secret societies, folklore, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Blind Date With a Book, Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz, now available from Algonquin Books, and All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg. 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 Last of the Wine by Mary Renault, and really anything by her (rec’d by Scarlett) Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (rec’d by Scarlett) Julian by Gore Vidal (rec’d by Scarlett) The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George (rec’d by Scarlett) Books Discussed Bossypants by Tina Fey If I Understood You Would I Have This Look On My Face by Alan Alda (plus, Clear+Vivid podcast) Love Lives Here by Amanda Jette Knox (rec’d by Jess) Sorted by Jackson Bird She’s Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan Wayward Children series (Every Heart a Doorway #1) by Seanan McGuire Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (tw: self-harm, family violence) The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson The Spellbook of Katrina Von Tassel by Alyssa Palombo The Rook by Daniel O’Malley (tw: graphic violence) Mãn by Kim Thuy, translated by Sheila Fischman Revenge by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder (tw: body horror, graphic violence) The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth (tw: homophobia) The Magnolia Sword by Sherry Thomas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss lady scientists, teen superheroes, books on racism, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by our Blind Date with a Book, Penguin Teen, and The Best American Short Stories 2019 audiobook, guest edited by Anthony Doerr, series edited by Heidi Pitlor. 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 Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones The Book of M by Peng Shepherd Stephen King Readalikes episode Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky Promised the Moon by Stephanie Nolen Renegades by Marissa Meyer Not Your Sidekick (Sidekick Squad) by CB Lee So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Crow Blue by Adriana Lisboa, transl. by Alison Entrekin 3% on Netflix The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon Lands of Lost Borders by Kate Harris Gamechanger by LX Beckett The Outside by Ada Hoffmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss poetry, dinosaur books for grown-ups, Roman historical fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by our Blind Date with a Book giveaway, Quantum by international bestselling author Patricia Cornwell, and Change is the only Constant by Ben Orlin, in Hardcover from Black Dog and Leventhal. 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 Like A Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, by Angela Garbes (rec’d by Cameron) And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready, by Meaghan O’Connell (rec’d by Cameron) Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Years and Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son by Anne Lamott (rec’d by Cameron) Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives by Annie Murphy Paul (rec’d by Sarah) Security by Gina Wohlsdorf (rec’d by Ashely) Books Discussed The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Stephen Brusatte The Fossil Hunter by Shelley Emling To the End of the Land by David Grossman, transl by Jessica Cohen How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Bone Witch series by Rin Chupeco Wild Embers by Nikita Gill The Book of Delights by Ross Gay Warcross by Marie Lu The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder I, Claudius by Robert Graves The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss more Halloween reads, asexual representation, solo female travelers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Blind Date with a Book, Sugar Run by Mesha Maren, now in paperback from Algonquin Books, and Playlist: The Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound by James Rhodes and illustrated by Martin O’Neill. 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 Josh & Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren (rec’d by Nicole) Carol Goodman’s books: Lake of Dead Languages, Seduction of Water, and Ghost Orchid (rec’d by Laura) Books Discussed The Siren by Tiffany Reisz (TW: rape, grooming, just lots of extremely not ok goings-on with underage people) The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan (tw: miscarriage) Rachel Kramer Bussel The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel by A.W. Jantha Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria When in Romance episode on asexual characters A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (rec’d by Nikki and Susie) Gunpowder Alchemy by Jeannie Lin The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss gothic reads, motherhood memoirs, fun sci-fi, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Read This Book, Rebel by Marie Lu, and Soho Teen. 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 Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore (rec’d by Alicia) Books Discussed Ring by Koji Suzuki, transl by Robert B. Rohmer and Glynne Walley The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp (rec’d by Liberty) The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein His Hideous Heart, edited by Dahlia Adler The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, transl. by Michael Henry Heim The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch The Hunger by Alma Katsu Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice The Blue Jay’s Dance by Louise Erdrich Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin Finder by Suzanne Palmer The Wrong Stars (Axiom #1) by Tim Pratt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 by David Peace Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Sandhya Menon Heroine Complex series by Sarah Kuhn The Flood Girls by Richard Fifield (rec’d by Kathleen) Check, Please!: Book 1: Hockey, by Ngozi Ukazu Shinju by Laura Joh Rowland Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak (The Unquiet Dead #1) by Ausma Zehanat Khan The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert The Magnificent Spinster by May Sarton Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Langton by Sara Collins (tw: slavery and violence inherent therein, harm to children, rape, incest) Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub (tw: depression, suicide) Lazarus Vol 1 by Greg Rucka, Michael Lark Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Emma Ríos (cw: nudity/prostitution) No Hard Feelings by Liz Fosslien and Molly West Duffy Ask A Manager by Alison Green (and the online columns!) An American Marriage by Tayari Jones The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (tw: torture, harm to children, gore) Juana and Lucas by Juana Medina Lupe Vargas and Her Super Best Friend / Lupe Vargas y Su Super Mejor Amiga by Amy Costales, Alexandra Artigas Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, transl. by Ginny Tapley Takemori Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Passing Strange by Ellen Klages About a Girl (Metamorphoses #3) by Sarah McCarry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport Subversive Cross-Stitch by Julie Jackson, photographs by Bill Milne Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique (tw child abuse, incest) Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden (tw: sexual assault, child abuse) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield The Code Book by Simon Singh No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol (rec’d by Rebecca) The Magnificent Spinster by May Sarton I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Choy Better Living Through Plastic Explosives by Zsuzsi Gartner Wild by Cheryl Strayed Tiny Beautiful Things Blue Plate Special by Kate Christensen (tw: domestic violence & child abuse, pet death, disordered eating & drinking) Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer Animal Vegetable Miracle The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes (out 9/17) We Set The Dark On Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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, transl. by Lisa Dillman Under My Hijab by Hena Khan, illustrated by Aaliya Jaleel The Faithful Scribe by Shahan Mufti The Parasol Protectorate series (Soulless #1) by Gail Carriger Unraveling by Karen Lord Pit Bull by Bronwen Dickey (tw: animal abuse) The River of Doubt by Candice Millard The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley Immortals After Dark by Kresley Cole, shout out to Sarah MacLean’s Fated Mates podcast with Jen Prokop The Magicians by Lev Grossman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 (some mentions of parental abuse) America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo Exit West by Mohsin Hamid On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson The Bees by Laline Paull Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (tw: harm to animals) The Bugs of Literature: A Flowchart Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (tw: child abuse) Lola Levine is Not Mean by Monica Brown The Case of the Missing Moonstone (Wollestonecraft Detective Agency #1) by Jordan Stratford, illustrated by Kelly Murphy (rec’d by Karina of Kidlit These Days) My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Case Histories by Kate Atkinson Markswoman by Rati Mehrotra Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri Low by Rick Remender, Greg Tocchini, Dave McCaig Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant Her Halloween Treat by Tiffany Reisz Thirsty by Mia Hopkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 by Attica Locke (lots of racism incl. violence and use of slurs) Queen of the Tearling series by Erika Johansen The Machineries of Empire by Yoon Ha Lee (Ninefox Gambit #1) (tws: coercion, gore, assault) The Cook by Maylis de Kerangal, transl Sam Taylor Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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: cow & dog death) How to Raise Successful People by Esther Wojcicki There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather by Linda Akeson McGurk Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall The Purveen Mistry mysteries (Widows of Malabar Hill #1) by Sujata Massey Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Longbourn by Jo Baker Kraken by China Mieville Rosewater by Tade Thompson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 MT Anderson Upgraded, edited by Neil Clarke Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden The Library Book by Susan Orlean (rec’d by Cassie) Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson A Void by Georges Perec A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (tw: sexual assault, suicide) Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough We’re Going To Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 by Tara Frejas The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe Unraveling by Karen Lord (tw: mentions of violence, incl. harm to children, but nothing too explicit) Alanna by Tamora Pierce The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex God Land by Lyz Lenz (out August 1) Accidental Saints by Nadia Bolz-Weber (rec’d by Amanda) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 McNamara The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister The Feminist Utopia Project, edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 In Formation: Remixing Black Feminism by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley The Pisces by Melissa Broder Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble Delicious Temptation by Sabrina Sol Post: Must-Read Romances by Latinx Authors Empty Nests by Ada Maria Soto Dare to Love a Duke by Eva Leigh Prostitute Laundry by Charlotte Shane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Trilogy by NK Jemisin Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Liu Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, trans Ann Goldstein We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen Post: Audiobooks in translation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi An Englishman in Madrid by Eduardo Mendoza, trans Nick Caistor By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paolo Coelho The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint Jade City by Fonda Lee The Cruel Prince by Holly Black Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss funny audiobooks, Marvel reads, monsters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins, and Hope and Other Punch Lines by Julie Buxbaum. 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 The Neapolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante (rec’d by Michelle) Books Discussed Captain Marvel Vol 1: In Pursuit of Flight, written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, illustrated by Dexter Soy and Emma Rios Spidey Vol. 1: First Day by Robbie Thompson, illustrated by Nick Bradshaw Peter and Ned’s Ultimate Travel Journal by Preeti Chhibber, illustrated by George Clements and Stéphane Kardos (out June 4) The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden (TW mention of sexual assault) The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer Sugar Run by Mesha Maren (TW homophobia) What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley (TW PTSD) The Book of Night Women by Marlon James (many trigger warnings) My Life with Bob by Pamela Paul Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan Borderline by Mishell Baker (tw: suicide, self-harm) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss horror westerns, adventure novels, books in translation, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Upon a Burning Throne by Ashok K. Banker, and Extraordinary Birds by Sandy Stark-McGinnis. 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 The Unsettlers by Mark Sundeen When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott Time Salvager by Wesley Chu Labyrinth by Kate Mosse Insurrecto by Gina Apostol (tw genocide) Tentacle by Rita Indiana, translated by Achy Obejas (tw: sexual assault, homophobia, slurs) August by Romina Paula, translated by Jennifer Croft Future Fiction, edited by Bill Campbell Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai Blood Water Paint by Joy McCollough (tw: rape, suicidal ideation) Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss series, Raven Cycle read-alikes, funny reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, William Shakespeare’s Get Thee Back to the Future by Ian Doescher, and Book Riot Insiders. 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 The Address by Fiona Davis, rec’d by Suzanne Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler, rec’d by Madeleine The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg, rec’d by Madeleine The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead, rec’d by Madeleine Books Discussed The Deepest Blue by Sarah Beth Durst The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy (#1 is All the Pretty Horses) Master & Commander (Aubrey-Maturin #1) by Patrick O’Brian Monstress by Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda (tw: torture, violence, war) Zero Sum Game by SL Huang When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore Roses and Rot by Kat Howard (tw: child abuse) Milkman by Anna Burns The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss queer protagonists, science reads by women of color, inspiring reads and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, Care/Of, and The Eighth Sister by Robert Dugoni. 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 A Memory of Empire by Arkady Martine America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo For the Love by Jen Hatmaker Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (rec’d by Liberty and Beulah) Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (tw: body horror) Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis Chen Pandemic by Sonia Shah Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg (out on October 22, 2019) (tw: domestic violence) The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall (rec’d by Liberty) (tw: child abuse) Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal Leviathan Wakes (the Expanse #1) by James SA Corey Rosewater by Tade Thompson Bonus: SFF Yeah! book club episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss short story collections, quirky mysteries, picture books, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Unscripted by Claire Handscombe, and The Fall of Crazy House by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet. 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 The Recovering by Leslie Jamison Chesapeake Requiem by Earl Swift Open City by Teju Cole Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado How Long Til Black Future Month by NK Jemisin The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee The Bloodprint by Ausma Zehanat Khan Magic Bites (Kate Daniels #1) by Ilona Andrews Families Families Families! by Suzanne Lang and Max Lang Me, Toma, and the Concrete Garden by Andrew Larsen and Anne Villeneuve Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart IQ by Joe Ide Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and guest Kelly Jensen discuss reads about anxiety, foodie books, Disney read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling, and You Owe Me a Murder by Eileen Cook. 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 The Vela S1 by Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, SL Huang, and Rivers Solomon The Handmaid’s Tale Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood and illustrated by Renee Nault Kidlit These Days podcast All The Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert So Lucky by Nicola Griffith Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri Meal by Blue Dellaquanti, illustrated by Soleil Ho (rec’d by Elisa) Comic Books With Recipes post Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton The Watch That Ends The Night by Allan Wolfe Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Final Draft by Riley Redgate Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss reading for stress-relief, sciencey novels, books set in Belgium, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Nurx and In Her Sights by Katie Ruggle. 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 Nightchaser by Amanda Bouchet Milkman by Anna Burns Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin Modern Lovers by Emma Straub The Veronica Speedwell mystery series by Deanna Raybourn Heroine Complex series by Sarah Kuhn An Elderly Lady is Up to no Good by Helene Turston, transl by Marlaine Delargy (on audio in June!) All Systems Red (Murderbot #1) by Martha Wells The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Euphoria by Lily King (rec’d by Rebecca) The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier Belgravia by Julian Fellowes Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (tw: homophobia, family violence) Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang Trade Me by Courtney Milan (tw: eating disorders) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss the Scottish Highlands, books for introverts, Rent read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Nurx, and Girls With Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young. 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 Lion Heart by Fran Seen A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer Books Discussed Dune by Frank Herbert Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom September by Rosamunde Pilcher The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes The Day of the Duchess by Sarah Maclean A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert (tw: discussion of domestic violence) Tessa Dare’s Castles Ever After series (Romancing the Duke #1) Witchmark by CL Polk The Awakened Introvert by Arnie Kozak Post: Life-Changing Books for Introverts I Thought It Was Just Me by Brené Brown A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (TW self-harm, sexual assault, harm to children) Holding Still For As Long As Possible by Zoe Whitall A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles The Book of Happiness by Nina Berberova (tw: suicide) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss travel and adventure stories, Romeo + Juliet read-alikes, books in translation, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, Nurx, and Dreamscape. 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 A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume Lady Hardcastle Series by T.E. Kinsey Books Discussed On Trails by Robert Moor America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan A Room with a View by EM Forster Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar As Meat Loves Salt (rec’d by Kathleen) by Maria McCann (TW: violence of all kinds) Anna-Marie McLemore War for the Oaks by Emma Bull Tentacle by Rita Indiana, transl by Achy Obejas (tw: rape) Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas (tw: self-harm, suicidal ideation, eating disorders) Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper The Merry Spinster by Daniel Mallory Ortberg Not So Stories, edited by David Thomas Moore Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough by Ophelia Field Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss non-Eurocentric world history, diverse read-alikes for Vonnegut and Hemingway, and beginners romance in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, Reign of the Kingfisher by T.J. Martinson, and The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara. 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 Mahimata by Rati Mehrotra State Tectonics by Malka Older Insurrecto by Gina Apostol The Faithful Scribe by Shahan Mufti Fingersmith by Sarah Waters The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye (tw: so much harm to children) The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness (rec’d by Rincey) Slayer by Kiersten White Into the Water by Paula Hawkins After the Eclipse by Sarah Perry (rec’d by Jamie Rochelle) Severance by Ling Ma (Vonnegut) The Occasional Virgin by Hanan al-Shaykh (tw: family violence) The Escape by Mary Balogh All Beautiful Things by Nicki Salcedo The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Emily Martin discuss meal-worthy book club picks, Fifth Element-ish science fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Audible , The Dysasters, and Devil’s Daughter. Visit mytbr.co for more info about TBR! 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 Death Below Stairs by Jennifer Ashley The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan The Meg by Steve Alten Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole The Selection by Kiera Cass The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff The Sun is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon Unf*ck Your Habitat by Rachel Hoffman Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and guest Sarah Davis discuss book club picks, dancers, capital punishment, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Audible , EveryPlate, and Nurx. 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 Washington Black by Esi Edugyan The Night Ocean by Paul LaFarge (Cosmic Horror post) The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani “10 New Controversial Books to Shake up Your Book Club” Disoriental by Negar Djavadi, translated by Tina A. Kover Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler Pointe by Brandy Colbert (tw: eating disorders) Dancer by Colum McCann Burial Rites by Hannah Kent The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis A Touch of Stardust by Kate Alcott Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub The Study of Animal Languages by Lindsay Stern Ammonite by Nicola Griffith The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and guest Mya Nunnally discuss mermaid literature, engrossing audiobooks, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR , Smoke and Summons by Charlie N. Holmberg, and Lola. 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 The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary by NoNieqa Ramos One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid S by JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Seraphina by Rachel Hartman Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor Zero Sum Game by S.L Huang The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark The Merman by Carl-Johan Vallgren (TW abuse of children and animals) The Mermaid by Christina Henry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and guest Christina Orlando discuss novels in verse, Hannibal read-alikes, fiction about Lyon, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR and The Lost Man by Jane Harper. 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 Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo The Sampo by Peter O’Leary Chocolat by Joanne Harris The Body in the Vestibule by Katherine Hall Page Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (tw: sexual assault, violence against women) Killing Eve LoveMurder by Saul Black (rec’d by Jamie) Mary Oliver Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Smith Blue by Camille T. Dungy Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne (rec’d by Liberty) Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (tw: domestic violence, hate crimes, limited representation of Native Americans) All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (tw: rape, war crimes, genocide) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss cozy reads, morally complicated characters, small-town stories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, The Plotters by Un-su Kim, and At the Wolf’s Table by Rosella Postorino. 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 Maid by Stephanie Land (rec’d by Jessica from Insiders) Eat Yourself Calm by Gill Paul (rec’d by Morgan)
Books Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Insurrecto by Gina Apostol VE Schwab’s Shades of Magic series (A Darker Shade of Magic) The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (tw: institutionalized homophobia, torture) The Wanderers by Meg Howrey Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Into the Water by Paula Hawkins The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill Pandemic by Sonia Shah Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel José Older The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste Sabriel by Garth Nix 100 Books with Cats post Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris Flavia De Luce series by Alan Bradley (#1: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie) Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney (rec’d by Jeff) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss good “relationship reads,” Asian authors, classic retellings, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, But That’s Another Story podcast and Life, Death, and Cellos by Isabel Rogers. 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 Upstream by Mary Oliver Becoming by Michelle Obama Startup by Doree Shafrir (rec’d by Rebecca) Chemistry by Weike Wang (tw: family emotional abuse) Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez How Long Til Black Future Month by NK Jemisin The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (tw: rape, gendered violence) On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee (narrated by BD Wong) The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner Witchmark by CL Polk The Good Women of China by Xinran, trans. By Esther Tyldesley The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya, translated by Asa Yoneda (tw: body horror) Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye Pride by Ibi Zoboi Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss business books, Puerto Rican reads, Vonnegut read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Help Me!: One Woman’s Quest to Find Out If Self-Help Really Can Change Your Life by Marianne Power, and Wishtree by Katherine Applegate. 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 Laid-Back Camp by Afro (rec’d by Kate H.)
Books Discussed The Kingdom of Copper by SA Chakraborty Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu Survivors’ Club: The Complete Series written Lauren Beukes and Dale Halverson, art by Ryan Kelly and Iñaki Miranda Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas Give Work by Leila Janah Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg (rec’d by Rebecca) When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago Mundo Cruel by Luis Negron, transl. Suzanne Jill Levine (tw: slurs, homophobia) Severance by Ling Ma The Sky is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith Salt Houses by Hala Alyan A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar (tw: physical abuse) Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman Why Religion? By Elaine Pagels (or really anything by her) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss LGBTQ comics, books about camping, motherhood, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed, and The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict. 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 Resist: Tales From a Future Worth Fighting Against, edited by Gary Whitta, Christie Yant, and Hugh Howey The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss Gulp by Mary Roach IQ by Joe Ide Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova LGBTQ Fantasy post Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (tw: abusive parents) America Vol 1: The Life and Times of America Chavez by Gabby Rivera and Joe Quinones Black Panther: World of Wakanda by Roxane Gay et al I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast Nomadland by Jessica Bruder The Nature Fix by Florence Williams Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso Guidebook to Relative Strangers by Camille T. Dungy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss books to help with your New Year’s resolutions in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Nightchaser by Amanda Boucher and Avon KissCon Weekend Affair. 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. Feedback The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik Books Discussed Pride by Ibi Ziboi Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson A Life Less Throwaway by Tara Button The Desire Map by Danielle LaPorte Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi Judgement Detox by Gabrielle Bernstein Every Body Yoga by Jessamyn Stanley Basic Witches by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Rebecca discuss Westerns, nonfiction, friend stories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Hunting Annabelle by Wendy Heard, and Dirty Little Secret by Jennifer Ryan. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. The show can also be found on Stitcher 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.
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Books Discussed Best American Travel Writing edited by Cheryl Strayed Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes The Book of Separation by Tova Mirvis Arcadia by Lauren Groff Close Enough to Touch by Victoria Dahl Chemistry by Weike Wang Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee Lab Girl by Hope Jahren She Matters by Susanna Sonnenberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn give more holiday recs and discuss some wintery reads in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal and our True Story Giveaway. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. The show can also be found on Stitcher 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. Feedback The Maze at Windermere (Sibyl from Insiders) Strange Practice (Sara M from Insiders) Books Discussed Gunsmoke & Glamour by Hillary Monahan The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Two Old Women by Velma Wallis Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield (tw: suicide, domestic violence, harm to children) Fledgling by Octavia E Butler (tw: pedophilia, sort of) Severance by Ling Ma Essentialism by Greg McKeown The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt The Death Safe by Edgar Wallace The Pattern in the Carpet by Margaret Drabble Grace for Gus by Harry Bliss Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Touched by an Alien by Gini Koch Borderline (The Arcadia Project #1) by Mishell Baker (tw: suicide, self-harm) Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger “Low fantasy” post Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn give more holiday gift recommendations in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Book Riot Read Harder Journal and our True Story giveaway. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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.
Feedback Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya Land of Burning Heat by Judith van Gieson Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Euphoria by Lily King Books Discussed Guidebook to Relative Strangers by Camille T Dungy (Persist Instagram book club) The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White (tw: child abuse) The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Eternal Life by Dara Horn Frida Kahlo: an Illustrated Life by Maria Hesse, Achy Obejas The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui (rec’d by Christine Ro) Comics About Refugee Experiences post Life After Life by Kate Atkinson A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride (tw: assault, self-harm, suicide) When by Daniel Pink Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi Toxic by Lydia Kang The Undoing (The Call of Crows #2) by Shelly Laurenston Winston’s War by Max Hastings Stalingrad by Antony Beevor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn answer holiday gift requests in this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows The Witches of New York by Ami McKay (tw: violence against women) Life’s Work by Dr. Willie Parker A Brief History of Misogyny by Jack Holland The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif If the Fates Allow, edited by Annie Harper Bring on the Blessings by Beverly Jenkins Boneshaker by Cherie Priest All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (tw: institutionalized homophobia, torture, assault, etc) The Poppy War by RF Kuang (tw: assault, rape, genocide) Grace of Kings by Ken Liu The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin The Acacia series by David Anthony Durham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Australian historical fiction, psychopaths, comedic murder mysteries, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Penguin Random House Audio, and So Done by Paula Chase. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (tw: homophobia, assault) Becoming by Michelle Obama obviously The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott The Mothers by Brit Bennett My Education by Susan Choi Heartstone by Elle Katharine White Gail Carriger Witchmark by CL Polk Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten, transl. By Marlaine Delargy Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas The Anatomy of Evil by Michael Stone (rec’d by Liberty) Asking For It by Lilah Pace (tw: discussions of/roleplay of rape/sexual assault, violence against women) Under Her Skin by Adriana Anders, Blank Canvas series, (tw: domestic violence, assault) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss books about the arts, kid-friendly audiobooks, Victorian-esque reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Penguin Random House Audio, and Flatiron Books, publishers of Frankie. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse by Piu Marie Eatwell Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (TW: violence against women and children (and everyone)) Stephen King read-alikes episode My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due (TW: graphic violence, harm to women and children) The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer A Separation by Katie Kitamura Two Old Women by Velma Wallis Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (rec’d by Jessica and Michelle) Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro Blood, Water, Paint by Joy McCullough (tw: rape) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis C. Chen The Impossible Girl by Lydia Kang (rec’d by Jamie C) Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones (rec’d by Jenn’s friend Ellen) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss books about books, houses as characters, female travelers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Knitter’s Dictionary, and Shades of Wicked by Jeaniene Frost. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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. Feedback The Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne The Iron Hunt by Marjorie M. Liu Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Books Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix by Julie C Dao (Nov 6) Meet the Frugalwoods by Elizabeth Willard Thames Sex with Shakespeare by Jillian Keenan Possession by AS Byatt The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine Guidebook to Relative Strangers by Camille T. Dungy The Shining by Stephen King The Turner House by Angela Flournoy Big Dead Place by Nicholas Johnson (Also please enjoy this news story: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/scientist-remote-antarctic-outpost-stabs-13490682) South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby (tw: suicide) Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli Deep Down Dark by Héctor Tobar (rec’d by Rincey) Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn give their picks for Stephen King read-alikes in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Duchess by Design by Maya Rodale and What Would Cleopatra Do? by Elizabeth Foley and Beth Coates. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix by Julie C Dao (Nov 6) Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon Perfect Days by Raphael Montes Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler (tw: child abuse, sort of?) The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand Out by Natsuo Kirino (tw: sexual assault, abuse) The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma The Book of M by Peng Shepherd Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss books set in New Mexico, horror with cars, political machinations, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Timothy Top Book 1: The Green Pig by Gud and Good Me Bad Me, now in paperback by Ali Land. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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. Feedback Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata Crossfire by Miyuki Miyabe Out by Natsuo Kirino
Books Discussed An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie Passing Strange by Ellen Klages River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Fire Season by Philip Connors Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade Christine by Stephen King Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak War With the Mein by David Anthony Durham The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin (Inheritance Trilogy) Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev Inked by Eric Smith Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr (tw: rape, suicidal ideation) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and guest Vanessa Diaz discuss Portuguese novels, ghost stories, unreliable narrators, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Devil’s Thief by Lisa Maxwell and Flight or Fright, edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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: Mech Cadet Yu by Greg Pak, art by Takeshi Miyazawa Improvement by Joan Silber Everything’s Trash, But It’s Ok by Phoebe Robinson Blindness by Jose Saramago (tw: sexual assault, violence, rape) The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due (tw: racial violence, rape, harm to children) Affinity by Sarah Waters (tw: mention of suicide) The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall Borderline by Mishell Baker (tw: self harm, suicide) (Don’t) Call Me Crazy edited by Kelly Jensen Long Division by Kiese Laymon The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss vacation reads for dads, toxic friendships, disabled characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR, A Nice Day for a Cowboy Wedding by Nicole Helm, and Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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. Feedback Attack of the Giant Baby and Other Stories by Kit Reed The Best of Robert Bloch Richard Matheson
Books Discussed The Tangled Tree by David Quammen The Ravenmaster by Christopher Skaife The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison Daughters of the Storm (Blood & Gold #1) by Kim Wilkins Swords & Spaceships newsletter and Goodreads shelf Shark Drunk by Morten A Stroksnes So Anyway by John Cleese The Fever by Megan Abbott Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins (TW: extreme violence of basically every imaginable kind) Rosewater by Tade Thompson The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby (rec’d by Susie D) Friend With Benefits Zone by Laura Brown Romances with disabled heroines: https://frolic.media/heroines-with-disabilities-six-romance-recs/ Death Below Stairs by Jennifer AshleyJenn Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye (TW: graphic harm to children) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss fall mood reading, books about friendship, horror short stories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the GCP Clubcar and The Good Demon by Jimmy Cajoleas. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Tangled Tree by David Quammen Headscarves and Hymens by Mona Eltahawy Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector (1970s, Brazil), transl. Stefan Tobler Angelica Gorodischer (Argentina), Kalpa Imperial, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin All Systems Red by Martha Wells Daniel H Wilson (Robopocalypse or Guardian Angels and Other Monsters) Weathering by Lucy Wood The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins She Matters by Susanna Sonnenberg Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam Severance by Ling Ma The Merry Spinster by Daniel Mallory Ortberg (published under Mallory Ortberg) Penance by Kanae Minato, transl by Philip Gabriel Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami, transl. by Allison Markin Powell (rec’d by Pierce Alquist) North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud Fen by Daisy Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and Liberty discuss cozy mysteries, books set in Malaysia, readalikes for Amélie and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Upgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels and Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 How Long Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James All Systems Red (Murderbot #1) by Martha Wells Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn Homicide in Hardcover by Kate Carlisle A Trifle Dead by Livia Day The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan (trigger warning: child abuse) The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, translated by Alison Anderson (tw: suicidal ideation) Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord Knights vs Dinosaurs by Matt Phelan The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum Astronaut Academy by Dave Roman Being Jazz: My Life as a Transgender Teen by Jazz Jennings Redefining Realness by Janet Mock (trigger warning: child abuse) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Alice talk nonfiction about the Civil Rights movement, memoirs of interesting people, and more in this week’s (all nonfiction!) episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s TBR, Nobody Real, and LibraryReads. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Blood at the Root by Patrick Phillips Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen by Philip Dray History of the Philippines by Luis Francia Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History by Simon Winder An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie, James Kirkup (translator) The Ridiculous Race: 26,000 Miles, 2 Guides, 1 Globe, No Airplanes by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs Make Trouble by Cecile Richards Happy Accidents: A Memoir by Jane Lynch Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Sharifah discuss Sri Lankan fiction, books about Asian-American young women, Greek myth retellings, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Ghost Road by Charis Cotter, The Good Neighbor: The Life of and work of Fred Rogers written by Maxwell King and narrated by LeVar Burton, and the Read Harder Journal. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Thief by Megan Whalen Turner The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu Re Jane by Patricia Park Trust No Aunty by Maria Qamar The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin Hot as Hades by Alisha Rai The Expanse series by James SA Corey River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli Courtney Milan’s Brothers Sinister series Warcross by Marie Lu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss romantic comedies, books about strong women, non-murdery true crime, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Sadie by Courtney Summers, Mirage by Somaiya Daud, and Chica Chocolate. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig (out Sept 25) Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn The Color Purple by Alice Walker Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela Bone & Bread by Saleema Nawaz (TW: eating disorder) The Five Daughters of the Moon by Leena Likitalo Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis (rec’d by Jess) The Big Bang Symphony by Lucy Jane Bledsoe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss rich people problems, pregnant protagonists, book-slump busters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Love Letters to Jane’s World by Paige Braddock, and How Are You Going to Save Yourself by JM Holmes. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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. Feedback Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound by Grant Lawrence
Books Discussed My Own Devices by Dessa (out Sept. 8) Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich (WIT: http://biblibio.blogspot.com/) Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran Versailles by Kathryn Davis Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea, translated by Marilyn Booth People Like Us by Dominick Dunne (his Recommended episode) A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (26 hours, have fun!) Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner (audio rec’d by Nita Basu, 11 hours), trigger warning for suicidal ideation Heartless by Gail Carriger Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Wangs vs. The World by Jade Chang Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse The Poppy War by RF Kuang (tw: war crimes, rape, mandated sterilization, child abuse) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss light nonfiction, novels in verse, thrillers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Temper by Nicky Drayden and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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. Feedback: The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation by Lawrence Venuti The Translator by Nina Schuyler
Books Discussed: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Changeless by Gail Carriger The Earth Moved by Amy Stewart I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong Here to There and Me To You by Cheryl Keely Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal Yesterday by Felicia Yap Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Sweet Tea and Sympathy (Southern Eclectic #1) by Molly Harper It Takes Two to Tumble (Seducing the Sedgwicks #1) by Cat Sebastian Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss novels about the Balkans, contemporary YA, really weird books, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Legendary by Stephanie Garber, and Megabat by Anna Humphrey, illustrated by Kass Reich. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Girl At War by Sara Novic The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (tw: child abuse) The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley The Book of M by Peng Shepherd This is Just My Face by Gabourey Sidibe We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union (tw: rape) Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley (rec’d by Attica Locke on Recommended) Valley Girls by Sarah Nicole Lemon Anger is a Gift, narrated and written by Mark Oshiro Wild Swans by Jung Chang The Court Dancer by Kyung-Sook Shin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss mystery audiobooks, sea otters, fun sci-fi, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Suicide Club by Rachel Heng and Chica Chocolate. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Dread Nation by Justina Ireland The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett Death Below Stairs by Jennifer Ashley The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan Haunting of Vancouver Island by Shanon Sinn Return of the Sea Otter by Todd McLeish Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers The World Between Two Covers by Ann Morgan An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud Excellent Women by Barbara Pym Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper The Captive Prince trilogy by C.S. Pacat The Professional by Kresley Cole, rec’d by Trisha and Jess Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Jess Pryde joins Jenn for a special romance episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Engineering for Cats by Mac Delaney and our $500 YA Giveaway. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory After the Wedding by Courtney Milan A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert (tw: intimate partner violence) Under Her Skin by Adriana Anders (tw: flashbacks to domestic abuse) Dear Aaron by Mariana Zapata A Summer for Scandal by Lydia San Andres If the Dress Fits by Carla de Guzman The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan Soulless by Gail Carriger Dating You / Hating You by Christina Lauren The Soldier’s Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole Chasing Moonlight by Raven St. Pierre Looking For Trouble by Victoria Dahl The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev How the Duke Was Won by Lenora Bell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss fiction about the Azores, wine books, lighter reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Recommended and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Chi’s Sweet Adventure by Konami Kanata Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin, translated Andrew Bromfield Death at the Water’s Edge by Miriam Winthrop The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (tw: scenes of domestic violence/physical child abuse) Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey Magic Bites (Kate Daniels #1) by Ilona Andrews Cork Dork by Biana Bosker The Billionaire’s Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Witchmark by CL Polk We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss New England novels, book club options, immigration narratives, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Bluestone and Vine by Donna Kauffman and The Beginning of Everything by Andrea J. Buchanan. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Soulless by Gail Carriger Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Glass and Gardens, edited by Sarena Ulibarri Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler Advice for Future Corpses by Sallie Tisdale I Married You for Happiness by Lily Tuck Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli The Empire’s Old Clothes by Ariel Dorfman The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland Hammer Head by Nina McLaughlin Nothing Happened by Molly Booth Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and María Cristina recommend light books in translation, books for breakups, reads about saints, and more. This episode is sponsored by My Plain Jane and Harry’s Trees. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Madonna of the Sleeping Cars by Maurice Dekobra, translated by Neal Wainwright Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer and translated by (wait for it…) Ursula K. LeGuin Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Sister Teresa by Barbara Mujica The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie My Awesome Japan Adventure by Rebecca Otawa My Neighbor Totoro: A Novel by Tsugiko Kubo and Hayao Miyazaki The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle by Janet Fox Quest for a Maid by Frances Mary Hendry Want by Cindy Pon Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu Bonfire by Krysten Ritter Any Man by Amber Tamblyn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Octavia Butler read-alikes in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li and Annotated. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books Discussed: Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper NK Jemisin An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (trigger warning: sexual assault) Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones (trigger warning: domestic violence) Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson The Machineries of Empire, Yoon Ha Lee (Ninefox Gambit #1) (trigger warnings: torture, rape, coercion, suicide) (R)evolution series by Stephanie Saulter (Gemsigns #1) (trigger warning: hate crimes) MEM by Bethany C. Morrow Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (June 26th) (trigger warning: harm to children) Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead American War by Omar El Akkad Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss disabled heroines, fast-paced audiobooks, Saga read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen and We Are Gathered by Jamie Weisman. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi Friend (With Benefits) Zone by Laura Brown Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios ODY-C by Matt Fraction and Christian Ward Shark Drunk by Morten A. Stroksnes Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler The Bone People by Keri Hulme (tw: child abuse) That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott Bound to be a Groom by Megan Mulry Here’s a post about beta males in romance A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert (tw: discussion of abusive relationships) Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke Stepmonster by Wednesday Martin Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman (tw: miscarriage) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss unreliable narrators, romantic suspense, historical mysteries, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Shimmer by Carsten Stroud and Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers, edited by Sarena Ulibarri The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland Coffee Boy by Austin Chant The Others series (Written in Red #1) by Anne Bishop The Merry Spinster by (Daniel) Mallory Ortberg The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear Take the Lead by Alexis Daria A Summer for Scandal by Lydia San Andres I Am Justice by Diana Munoz Stewart All Beautiful Things by Nicki Salcedo Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie The Poppy War by RF Kuang (tw: rape, war crimes) The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer Labyrinth by Kate Mosse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss naturey spec-fic, New England novels, escapist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s gift card giveaway and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Roses and Rot by Kat Howard (tw: child abuse) Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara (tw: harm to children) Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Queens of Renthia series by Sarah Beth Durst Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead On Beauty by Zadie Smith All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin Burnt Toast B&B by Heidi Belleau and Rachel Haimowitz Holding Still for as Long as Possible by Zoe Whitall Some Assembly Required by Arin Andrews, rec’d by Jackson Bird Resources: trans recs on Goodreads, Transmission Podcast To The End of June by Cris Beam Another Place at the Table by Kathy Harrison The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss pioneer fiction, distraction reads, slashers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love and First Lessons by Lina J. Potter. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt The Mothers by Brit Bennett Giveaway! bookriot.com/bookstore500 Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell The Wangs vs. The World by Jade Chang The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich Burial Rites by Hannah Kent A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (TW: harm to children and basically everyone else also) Security by Gina Wohlsdorf (rec’d by Liberty) When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Samoan literature, evil kids, contemporary YA, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Clara Voyant by Rachelle Delaney and The 49th Mystic (Beyond the Circle Series #1) by Ted Dekker. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Welcome Home, edited by Eric Smith Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger Sons for the Return Home by Albert Wendt Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel (tw: domestic violence) Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh Cabin Pressure by John Finnemore (rec by Nita) N0s4A2 by Joe Hill The Dinner by Herman Koch, translated by Sam Garrett Dread Nation by Justina Ireland The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson Peas and Carrots by Tanita S. Davis Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L Sánchez (tw: self harm and suicide) Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel (tw: child abuse) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss fantasy, diverse kids books, awkward romances and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Lady Rogue by Theresa Romain and Everywhere You Want to Be by Christina June. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 So Lucky by Nicola Griffith (out May 15) History of the Philippines by Luis H. Francia The Detective Elouise Norton series by Rachel Howzell Hall A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man’s Quest to Be a Better Husband by David Finch Shades of Magic series by VE Schwab (A Darker Shade of Magic) The Acacia series by David Anthony Durham (The War with the Mein) A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara Niño Wrestles the World by Yuyi Morales Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love The Leper Spy by Ben Montgomery Empress by Ruby Lal Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Neil Gaiman (The Graveyard Book or Stardust or Sandman) Wayward Vol 1: String Theory by Jim Zub, Stephen Cummings, John Rauch “At Death’s Window” by Anne Lamott (in Grace (Eventually)) Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Katy Butler Once Upon a Tower by Eloisa James How Not to Fall by Emily Foster Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Books Like Black Panther post A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Recommended is back! Season 2 will start on May 16, so there’s no time like the present to catch up with Season 1. Get more details and subscribe at bookriot.com/recommended or on the podcatcher of your choice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss action-packed sci-fi, NYC stories, mysteries, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Summer Constellations by Alisha Sevigny and The Theory of Happily Ever After by Kristin Billerbeck. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot (trigger warning: child abuse, suicidal ideation, self-harm, domestic violence) A Conjuring of Light by VE Schwab Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant 100 Places in Greece Every Woman Should Go by Amanda Summer Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg (plus Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell) If We Were Villains by ML Rio Books Like The Secret History post Long Black Veil by Jennifer Finney Boylan Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (trigger warning: domestic violence) Infomocracy by Malka Older Bone Street Rumba series by Daniel José Older (Half-Resurrection Blues #1) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss characters with secrets, diverse Westerns, weird fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Bruno Johnson Series and Bas Bleu. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Bonds of Justice by Nalini Singh Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice by Willie Parker Oliver Sacks The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Binti by Nnedi Okorafor The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey The Themis files by Sylvain Neuvel No Good Deed by Kara Connolly An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard (trigger warning: violence against women) The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior by Tepilit Ole Saitoti Half an Inch of Water by Percival Everett River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey IQ by Joe Ide The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn is joined by Kim Ukura and Alice Burton, hosts of the For Real podcast, for a special nonfiction-themed episode! This episode is sponsored by Rebound by Kwame Johnson and the Bruno Johnson Series by David Putnam. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Not So Stories edited by David Thomas Moore Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me by Jennifer Teege Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City by Kate Winkler Dawson Bachelor Girl by Betsy Israel (trigger warning: discussion of rape) The Extra Woman by Joanna Scutts I Can Barely Take Care of Myself by Jen Kirkman The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America’s Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu Eatwell The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee The Song Poet by Kao Kalia Yang Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People by Helen Zia “Stories of Your Life” from Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language by Melvyn Bragg Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson From #blacklivesmatter To Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss the Tudors, feminism, audiobooks and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by My Lady’s Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel by Larissa Zageris and Kitty Curran, published by Quirk Books, and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette De Bodard (part of Xuya universe) The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine Changing Heaven by Jane Urquhart Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Get In Trouble by Kelly Link An Englishman in Madrid by Eduardo Mendoza, translated by Nick Caistor A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn The Grey King by Susan Cooper Crown of Blood by Nicola Tallis Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann After Birth by Elisa Albert Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Hot Head by Damon Suede (rec’d by Trisha Brown) For Real by Alexis Hall Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Book of Night Women by Marlon James (post for reference) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss nature and magic, satire, the Scottish Highlands, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Rebel with a Cupcake by Anna Mainwaring from KCP Loft and The Romance Reader’s Guide to Life by Sharon Pywell. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Give Work by Leila Janah The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan Crossroads of Canopy by Thoraiya Dyer Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst Colson Whitehead Dara Horn Scotland: An Autobiography by Rosemary Goring Once Upon a Tower by Eloisa James The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The Sellout by Paul Beatty The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood State of Wonder by Ann Patchett Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell Monster by Walter Dean Myers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss readalikes for Neil Gaiman’s works in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Force of Nature by Jane Harper. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books Discussed The Unquiet by Mikaela Everett The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett American Gods by Neil Gaiman The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden Stardust by Neil Gaiman Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno Garcia Coraline by Neil Gaiman Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Elizabeth and Zenobia by Jessica Miller The Jumbies by Tracy Baptiste Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss fun magical reads, trilogies, non-scary true crime, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater by Alanna Okun and She Caused a Riot by Hannah Jewell. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Blood of a Thousand Stars by Rhoda Belleza The Beauty by Aliya Whitely The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Death Going Down by Maria Angelica Bosco translated by Lucy Greaves The Hare by Cesar Aira Shades of Magic by VE Schwab The Broken Earth trilogy by NK Jemisin (trigger warning: harm to children) The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Post: books set in New Orleans Voodoo Dreams by Jewell Parker Rhodes Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest Williams Half An Inch of Water by Percival Everett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss all the short stories in this week’s special episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Random House. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg (recently announced transition to Daniel, but book is listed under Mallory) A Gathering of Shadows by VE Schwab A Fine Summer’s Day by Charles Todd Salsa Nocturna by Daniel José Older Slasher Girls and Monster Boys, incl. stories by Marie Lu and Leigh Bardugo and Kendare Blake What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah podcast: Reading Women Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade We Show What We Have Learned by Clare Beams Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, edited by Sarah Weinman Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu Tender by Sofia Samatar Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, edited by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu Gutshot by Amelia Gray Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri In the Country by Mia Alvar The Djinn Falls in Love And Other Stories edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Key West reads, Native American authors, WWI novels and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Random House and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte Mongrels by Stephen Graham-Jones If I Ever Get Out Of Here by Eric Gansworth YA novels by Native American authors post Hemingway’s Girl by Erika Robuck Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson The Cartographer of No Man’s Land by PS Duffy The Hunger by Alma Katsu The Changeling by Victor Lavalle (trigger warning: harm to children) New People by Danzy Senna Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Korean fiction, Central American authors, fluffy audiobooks, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao and Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal (July 2018) Salt Houses by Hala Alyan The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich While the City Slept by Eli Sanders Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo I’ll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Sora Kim-Russell The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson Valdemar: Last Herald Mage series (Magic’s Pawn #1) trigger warnings for rape, child abuse, suicide The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner by Andrea Smith The Unleashing by Shelly Laurenston A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson A Guidebook to Relative Strangers by Camille T Dungy The Dream of My Return by Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated by Katherine Silver Central American author recommendations post The World In Half by Christina Henriquez Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Braving The Wilderness by Brene Brown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss baby shower books, true crime, short stories on audio, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Vale by Brian D. Anderson and A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Mem by Bethany C Morrow (May 22 2018) Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Name That Movie by Paul Rogers The Awesome Girl’s Guide to Dating Extraordinary Men by Ernessa T Carter (rec’d by Jamie C) Bingo Love by Tee Franklin and Jenn St. Onge The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara (recommended by Liberty), trigger warnings: rape and murder The Power by Naomi Alderman (trigger warning: sexual violence) Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik In The Country We Love by Diane Guerrero and Michelle Burford (tw: self harm, discussion of suicide) When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco Sherlock Holmes Back Talk: Stories by Danielle Lazarin (rec from Katie on the Audiobooks newsletter) Post: Short story audiobooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss independent ladies, fantasy short stories, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel reading comps, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton and The Birthday Girl by Sue Fortin. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper Make Trouble by Cecile Richards 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean Destiny’s Captive by Beverly Jenkins (rec’d by Jess Pryde) Unnatural Creatures edited by Neil Gaiman and Maria Dahvana Headley A Thousand Beginnings and Endings edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman (out June 26 2018) Fresh Ink edited by Lamar Giles I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum The Paper Menagerie: Stories by Ken Liu Nevada by Imogen Binnie Holding Still for As Long As Possible by Zoe Whitall Lady Killer by Joelle Jones and Jamie S. Rich, Chelsea Cain An American Housewife by Helen Ellis The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss immigrant stories, royalty, close friendships, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Here We Lie by Paula Treick DeBoard and Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun Winston’s War by Max Hastings The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole (out Feb 27) Gather the Daughters by Jennie Malamed (trigger warning: sexual assault, eating disorders) Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Bayou Magic by Jewell Parker Rhodes The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson The Red Threads of Fortune by JY Yang Jade City by Fonda Lee The Chimes by Anna Smaill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Finnish literature, mental illness, enemies-to-lovers stories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Your One and Only by Adrianne Finlay and Comic Bento. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Other Lands (Acacia #2) by David Anthony Durham Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna The Summer Book by Tove Jansson I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erica L Sanchez (trigger warning: self-harm) Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali (trigger warning: sexual assault) The Mothers by Brit Bennett The Captive Prince trilogy by CS Pacat (all the trigger warnings) Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great #1) by Mary Renault, recommended by Alexander Chee (Reading My Way Out of the Closet) Hold Me by Courtney Milan Dating You / Hating You by Christina Lauren Yes Please by Amy Poehler Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett Galore by Michael Crummey All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Moroccan authors, secret societies, nonfiction audiobooks, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert and our library cart giveaway. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 I Thought It Was Just Me by Brene Brown Pit Bull by Bronwen Dickey The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami The Happy Marriage by Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated by Andre Nafis-Sahely Laila Lalami on Moroccan literature Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman (trigger warning: sexual assault) The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff Dune by Frank Herbert Genre fiction classics post One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa The Secret History by Donna Tartt Labyrinth by Kate Mosse The Earth Moved by Amy Stewart Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, read by the author, cosigned by contributor Ashley Holstrom A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn Aunt Dimity’s Death by Nancy Atherton (rec’d by Sarah Nicolas) My Two Grannies by Floella Benjamin, illustrated by Margaret Chamberlain Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match by Monica Brown, illustrated by Sara Palacios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Haitian authors, Canadian nonfiction, book club options, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libby and Eternal Life by Dara Horn. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Year One by Nora Roberts (The Stand or The Strain) Make Trouble by Cecile Richards Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat Hadriana In All My Dreams by René Depestre, translated by Kaiama L. Glover The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig (rec’d by Angel Cruz) The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell Testimony by Robbie Robertson One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul Murder on the Red River by Marcie R Rendon The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware The Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Faith Hicks, Brooke A. Allen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss book club picks, retellings, books about books, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by OwlCrate and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Gnomon by Nick Harkaway The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú For reader looking for books for 7 year old boy: The Lunch Lady series and the Dog Man series. (Sarah from Insiders) For reader looking for books from other countries NOT about war/racism: Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata, about a man who meets his late father’s mistress and gets sort of obsessed, but more in a flies-in-the-face-of-Japanese-manners-way, not a creepy-stalker-will-kill-you way (Melissa from Insiders) The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch Lawless by Jeff Salane All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry (Orpheus) The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh (1001 Nights) Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman 100 Must Read Books About Books post Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder Unidentified Suburban Object by Mike Jung All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (trigger warning: suicide) A Separation by Katie Kitamura Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss mysteries, all-ages comics, YA fantasy, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Unearthed by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner and Heart on Fire by Amanda Bouchet. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Squire by Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small series) Shadowsong by S. Jae-Jones Bonfire by Krysten Ritter (trigger warning: sexual assault) The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley We’re Going To Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union (trigger warning: discussion of her rape) Misfit City Vol 1 by Kirsten Smith, art by Kurt Lustgarten, Naomi Franquiz Jem and the Holograms V1 by Kelly Thompson and Sophie Campbell The Key Hunters series by Eric Luper (#1 The Mysterious Moonstone) The Brixton Brothers series (The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity), recommended by Preeti Glutton for Pleasure by Alisha Rai Poly Romance post Bound To Be A Groom by Megan Mulry IQ by Joe Ide Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss international reads, Star Trek readalikes, bisexual characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti and OwlCrate. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Sunshine by Robin McKinley A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, translated by Lola Rogers The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso (rec’d by Rebecca) White Oleander by Janet Fitch Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Wallbanger by Alice Clayton A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold Provenance by Ann Leckie Wild Swans by Jung Chang Mighty Be Our Powers by Leymah Gbowee A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee 100 Must Read Bisexual Books post Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Hallmark movie read-alikes, gift recommendations, kids’ London reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libby and Bookaxe. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 bookriot.com/bookriottop20 Eternal Life by Dara Horn Living With a Wild God by Barbara Ehrenreich The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, translated by Judith Hemschemeyer Poetry collections in translation (not about love!) post The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka Border by Kapka Kassabova Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Chi-Young Kim The Agency series by YS Lee (A Spy In The House #1) Shades of London series by Maureen Johnson (The Name of the Star #1) An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James A Mistletoe Affair by Farrah Rochon Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by Dan Harris (rec’d by Rebecca) Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell Dreadnought by April Daniels Meditations by Marcus Aurelius The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar, illustrated by Peter Sis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In honor of Jane Austen’s birthday on December 16, Amanda and Jenn recommend their favorite readalikes in this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Life is Like A Musical by Tim Federle and The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Heartstone by Elle Katharine White The Living is Easy by Dorothy West The Ruin of a Rake by Cat Sebastian Longbourn by Jo Baker Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa de la Cruz Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey & Maturin series (Master & Commander #1) Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James For Real by Alexis Hall These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer Top 20 Giveaway! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss stocking-stuffer books, seasonal short stories, romances, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by No Time To Spare, new essays from Ursula K. Le Guin, and OwlCrate. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James Destiny’s Embrace by Beverly Jenkins Wild Child by Molly O’Keefe The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories edited by Joseph Gordon-Levitt Tiny books post: /miniature-books-for-tiny-libraries/ All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monson and Jory John Letters For the Year by Lea Redmond The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins (all the trigger warnings) Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant The Last Chance Christmas Ball anthology Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis A Front Page Affair by Radha Vatsal A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas We the Animals by Justin Torres Oye What I’m Gonna Tell You by Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman Want by Cindy Pon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn give their “Swiss Army” recommendations for the holiday season in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TarcherPerigee, publisher of Total Cat Mojo by Jackson Galaxy, and Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Jagganath by Karen Tidbeck Autumn by Ali Smith The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Poetsch Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies The Loyal League series by Alyssa Cole (An Extraordinary Union #1) The Forbidden Hearts series by Alisha Rai (Hate To Want You & Wrong to Need You ) Nasty Women, edited by Samhita Mukhopadhyay Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown The Summoner series by Taran Matharu (The Novice #1) Warcross by Marie Lu Jade City by Fonda Lee The Chimes by Anna Smaill Dot Journaling, Rachel Wilkerson Miller Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss book group picks, medieval fiction, sci-fi short stories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libby and the Book Riot Bookstore Giveaway. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Promise of Fire by Amanda Bouchet Jade City by Fonda Lee Crooked Letter Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin The Cutting Season by Attica Locke Shelter by Jung Yun The Wangs vs The World by Jade Chang My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry by Frederik Backman, translated by Henning Koch (recommended by Elizabeth) Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig A Bed of Spices by Barbara Samuel Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin The Escape by Mary Balogh The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked, edited by Annabelle Hayse, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen Pain Woman Takes Your Keys by Sonya Huber Overclocked by Cory Doctorow Galactic Empires, edited by Neil Clarke The Land by Mildred Taylor (recommended by Danika) The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Civil War reads, diverse middle-grade books, reading slumps, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty and Weregirl & Chimera by C.D. Bell. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Wolf-speaker (Immortals #2) by Tamora Pierce Get in Trouble by Kelly Link Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue (the review on Book Riot) The Pioneer Woman by Ree Drummond Take the Lead by Alexis Daria The Passing of the Armies by Joshua Chamberlain Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson (rec’d by Ta-Nehisi Coates) The Bloodprint by Ausma Zehanat Khan An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon No Good Deed by Kara Connolly Seeds of America trilogy (Chains #1) by Laurie Halse Anderson My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead 27 Hours by Tristina Wright Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Southern fiction, Spanglish, portal fantasy, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Big Lie by Julie Mayhew and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Jade City by Fonda Lee Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (Malinda Lo on Recommended) The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee Infomocracy by Malka Older Reset by Ellen Pao The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (Queen of the Night and Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas) Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison (ALL THE TRIGGER WARNINGS EVER) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss bread-making, nonfiction for teens, survival stories and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by A Selfie As Big as The Ritz by Lara Williams and The Bride Who Got Lucky by Janna MacGregor. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish Beard on Bread by James Beard Hate To Want You by Alisha Rai Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole (Off the Grid series) We Are the Weather Makers by Tim Flannery World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky, illustrated by Frank Stockton Hold Me by Courtney Milan Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai (out Nov 28) Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians series Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies Losing It by Emma Rathbone All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg Adrift by Steven Callahan Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell (tw: rape) Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss ’80s sci-fi, family drama, working class classics, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libby from OverDrive and Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Bookstore giveaway! bookriot.com/bookstoregiveaway Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich SPQR by Mary Beard Dreidels on the Brain by Joel Ben Izzy My True Love Gave To Me edited by Stephanie Perkins Alanna by Tamora Pierce Dawn by Octavia Butler Number the Stars by Lois Lowry My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time by Liz Jensen Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz Uncovering Ray by Edie Danford Undocumented by Aviva Chomsky In The Country We Love by Diane Guerrero Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique The Family Hightower by Brian Francis Slattery The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot David Peace Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss grown-up American Girl stories, soft sci-fi, LGBTQ romance, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by What Counts As Love by Marian Crotty and 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You by Vicki Grant. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Giveaway! bookriot.com/bookstoregiveaway The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin Of Mess and Moxie by Jen Hatmaker The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin Moon Called by Patricia Briggs An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole Kopp Sisters books by Amy Stewart (Girl Waits With Gun) The Wanderers by Meg Howrey Provenance by Ann Leckie Eerie Elementary series by Jack Chabert (The School Is Alive) Chronicles of Claudette by Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado (Giants Beware) Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown Out on Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler Want by Cindy Pon Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Warcross by Marie Lu Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Living is Easy by Dorothy West Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss inclusive horror, small-town fantasies, smart creepy girls, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Bloodprint by Ausma Zehanat Khan and All The Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Provenance by Ann Leckie Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due Universal Harvester by John Darnielle Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin Kraken by China Miéville An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Coraline by Neil Gaiman Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (trigger warning: rape, suicide) The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler Song Yet Sung by James McBride A Front Page Affair by Radha Vatsal (Kitty Weeks #1) The Quiche of Death by MC Beaton (Agatha Raisin #1) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss their favorite small press and translated titles in this week’s special 100th episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Because I Was a Girl, edited by Melissa de la Cruz, and 27 Hours by Tristina Wright from Entangled Teen. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Get Booked Bingo Card – enjoy! Guillotine Press The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz (Melville House), translated by Elisabeth Jaquette Citizen by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf) Hadriana In All My Dreams by René Depestre (Akashic), translated by Kaiama L Glover All In by Simona Ahrnstedt, translated by Tara Chace Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett (Aqueduct Press) The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky (Europa), translated by Tim Mohr Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz (NYRB) Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated Megan McDowell Border by Kapka Kassabova (Graywolf) Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez (Deep Vellum), translated Elizabeth Breyer – trigger warnings A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain (Pegasus Books) Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo (Restless Books), translated Allison M. Charette Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss gothic novels, short stories, LGBTQ+ YA, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Lit Chat, Second Acts by Teri Emory, and A Poison Dark and Drowning by Jessica Cluess. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda, trans William Weaver Angels & Demons by Dan Brown Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love by Sarah Vaughn and Lan Medina The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield In the Country by Mia Alvar Best American Short Stories 2016 The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe Tender by Sofia Samatar The Opposite of Everyone by Joshilyn Jackson Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore Dreadnought by April Daniels Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks Let’s Talk About Love (33 ⅓) by Carl Wilson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss creepy reads, social justice ammunition, witchy reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Girls Made of Glass and Snow by Melissa Bashardoust, Lit Chat from Book Riot and Abrams Noterie, and Brain Rules for Aging Well by John Medina. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams The Perfume Garden by Kate Lord Brown The Poem of The Cid by Anonymous Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton Single Carefree Mellow by Katherine Heiny Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein Fen by Daisy Johnson White Rage by Carol Anderson The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed (trigger warning for everything, basically) The Djinn Falls in Love, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin Brimstone by Cherie Priest Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and guest Eric Smith discuss all things young adult in this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Landscape With Invisible Hand by M.T. Anderson, The Golden House by Salman Rushdie, and A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker Warcross by Marie Lu Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore The New Guy by Amy Spalding Want by Cindy Pon This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia Terrier by Tamora Pierce (Beka Cooper) The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin The Awkward Path to Getting Lucky by Summer Heacock Headstrong by Rachel Swaby Relativity by Cristin Bishara The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee Seraphina by Rachel Hartman Firelight by Sophie Jordan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss books with gods, weird sci-fi, believable relationships, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Swing Time by Zadie Smith, published by Penguin Books, and A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, published by Counterpoint Press. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Books About Partition by Female Authors The Great Partition by Yasmin Khan Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai The Dime by Kathleen Kent Modern Lovers by Emma Straub Promise of Shadows by Justina Ireland Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley Borne by Jeff VanderMeer When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon The Chimes by Anna Smaill Maddaddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood (Oryx and Crake) The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi (Trigger warning: torture, tons of varieties of violence against basically everyone) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda, Jenn, and guest expert Kelly Jensen discuss all things YA in this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller and Book of the Month. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein Genuine Fraud by E Lockhart Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee Everything Leads To You by Nina LaCour 100 Must-Read YA Books With Little Or No Romance Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer Ash by Malinda Lo Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell “Glass” in Roses and Bones by Francesca Lia Block A Spy in the House by YS Lee The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma Absent by Katie Williams Saints and Misfits by SK Ali (trigger warning: sexual assault) Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson Miles Morales by Jason Reynolds Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt De la Pena (trigger warning: self-harm) See No Color by Shannon Gibney Leverage by Joshua C. Cohen (trigger warning: sexual assault) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Amanda and Jenn discuss classic retellings, post-Hamilton reads, small town stories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and Doubleday, publishers The Clockwork Dynasty, the new novel by Daniel Wilson. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Dreadnought by April Daniels The Novice by Taran Matharu The Secret Son by Laila Lalami Native Believer by Ali Eteraz Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk The Mothers by Brit Bennet All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan Frazzled by Booki Vivat Princess Academy series by Shannon Hale Rick Riordan’s new imprint Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie Re Jane by Patricia Park John Adams by David McCullough Also please watch this video: the John Adams rap cut from Hamilton Lafayette In the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell The Quick by Lauren Owen Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo (trigger warning: transphobia) Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Blood Defense by Marcia Clark, recommended by Jamie Canaves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Infinite Jest read-alikes, Muslim protagonists, horror, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book of the Month Club and Portrait of Vengeance by Carrie Stuart Parks. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Pre-Hispanic fiction by Spanish-speaking authors: The Heart of Jade by Salvador de Madariaga For Jennie, who wanted fish out of water stories set in Paris: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin and French Milk by Lucy Knisley For Sarah, who wants to introduce her Lonesome Dove-loving brother to more diverse books: The Good Lord Bird by James McBride, Old Filth by Jane Gardam, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Stargate by Pauline Gedge Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robbin Brown The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (Trigger warning: family abuse) Nalo Hopkinson The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela Salaam Reads G. Willow Wilson (Alif the Unseen, The Butterfly Mosque, Ms Marvel) Hammer Head by Nina McLaughlin The Wangs Vs. The World by Jade Chang Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Kreuger The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan, transl. by Yuri Machkasov Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (Trigger warning for violence towards children) Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen The Feminist Utopia Project edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss historical fiction, quests, funny books, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy and Impossible Views of the World by Lucy Ives. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson Dud Avocado by Helen Dundy See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt Mountain of Light by Indu Sundaresan Tombs of Atuan by Ursula LeGuin Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn Four Souls by Louise Erdrich Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day) Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome Funny books flow chart from Slate Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden Servant of the Underworld (Obsidian & Blood series #1) by Aliette de Bodard (writing outside her own culture) Girl Up by Laura Bates Grit by Angela Duckworth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Alaska reads, classics, LGBTQ+ YA, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Genius: The Game by Leopoldo Gout and The Secret Agent Training Manual by Elizabeth Singer Hunt. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcast 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 Dot Journaling by Rachel Wilkerson Miller Into the Water by Paula Hawkins Baby It’s Cold Outside by Addison Fox If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert The Woman In White Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Done Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Stay by Allie Larkin Dog On It by Spencer Quinn Alias Vol 1 by Brian Michael Bendis Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt The Rise of Ransom City by Felix Gilman A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss desert reads, boat stories, Muslim feminist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by I Got There by JT McCormick and Afrofuture Books. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcast 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 Rise and Fall of DODO by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo Red by Terry Tempest Williams Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins The Guns Above by Robyn Dennis The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi Wild Seed by Octavia Butler Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Bellwether by Connie Willis Wearing God by Lauren Winner Henri Nouwen (Life of the Beloved) Meeting Faith by Faith Adiele (The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems) How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England by Kristine Hughes Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas Pansies by Alexis Hall The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova translated by Judith Hemschemeyer See also: /read-harder-2017-poetry-collections-in-translation-not-above-love/ Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz Muslim Girl by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh Daring to Drive by Manal al-Sharif Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Asian sci-fi, books about mental illness, starter graphic novels, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong and Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcast 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 Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson March, Book 1 by John Lewis This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki Invisible Planets, edited by Ken Liu The Sea Is Ours, edited by Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Penance by Kanae Minato, translated by Philip Gabriel The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette Haldol and Hyacinths by Melody Moezzi Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh Captive Prince by CS Pacat Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker Borne by Jeff VanderMeer Shelter by Jung Yun A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss Scotland reads, Cuban fiction, mind-blowing YA, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Separatists by Lis Wiehl and Libby. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcast 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 Bonfire by Krysten Ritter (November 9 2017) Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat Murder in the Rough, edited by Otto Penzler The Hour of the Land by Terry Tempest Williams The Residence by Kate Anderson Brower American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean Scotland: The Autobiography by Rosemary Goring Death Going Down by Maria Angelica Bosco, translated by Lucy Greaves The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Roses and Rot by Kat Howard The Art of Waiting by Belle Boggs Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan Planet for Rent by Yoss, translated by David Frye Oye What I’m Gonna Tell You by Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss readings on motherhood, Star Wars read-alikes, novels about twins, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Sisters Chase by Sarah Healy and OwlCrate. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcast 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 Ruin of a Rake by Cat Sebastian (out August 22 2017) Behind the Throne KB Wagers Girl at War by Sara Novic NW by Zadie Smith Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Touched by an Alien by Gini Koch What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi Saga Vol 1 by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi Tender by Sofia Samatar Single Carefree Mellow by Katherine Heiny The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham The Girl From the Garden by Parnaz Foroutan Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (recommended by Liberty) California by Edan Lepucki Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffeneger Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss under the radar favorites, witchy reads, beautiful prose, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by OwlCrate, The Assignment (Lessons in Control series) by Jade A. Waters, and Ploughshares. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Moon Called by Patricia Briggs Death Going Down by María Angélica Bosco All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews Bone & Bread by Saleema Nawaz I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi Prophecy by Ellen Oh Problems by Jade Sharma Pym by Mat Johnson Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake 100 Must Reads About Witches post The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride Promise of Shadows by Justina Ireland The Graceling series by Kristin Cashore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn, Sharifah, and guest author Aliette de Bodard give fantasy reading recommendations in this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by The People We Hate At The Wedding by Grant Ginder and The Crime Book. 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 House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard SFF Yeah! podcast Black Wolves by Kate Elliott Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho Half World by Hiromi Goto Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin Alif the Unseen by G Willow Wilson Witchmark by C.L. Polk Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner Huntress by Malinda Lo About a Girl (Metamorphoses #3) by Sarah McCarry Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold The Oathbound by Mercedes Lackey The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu Court of Fives by Kate Elliott The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco War with the Mein by David Anthony Durham (Acacia series) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss fiction about moms and dads, middle-grade books, asexual characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Amazon Kindle and The Evaporation of Sofi Snow by Mary Weber. 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 Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi The Day of the Duchess Sarah MacLean To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques The Blue Jay’s Dance by Louise Erdrich The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead The Wangs Vs. The World by Jade Chang The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede (Dealing With Dragons #1) Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley 100 Must Read Lesbian and Bisexual Women Books post My Education by Susan Choi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn discuss travel audiobooks, under-the-radar magical realism, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Amazon Kindle and Not A Sound by Heather Gudenkauf. 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 Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck, narrated by Gary Sinise Blue Highways by William Least-Heat Moon Anne of the Island by LM Montgomery Mercury by Hope Larson Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino Listen, Slowly by Thanhha Lai The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies Burglar’s Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh True Crime Addict by James Renner (rec’d by Stephanie) Comics About Gaming post In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang The Amulet Series by Kazu Kibuishi (The Stonekeeper #1) My Life With BOB by Pamela Paul Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 by John Lanchester How Should a Person Be by Sheila Heti (rec’d by Angel Cruz) In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje (recommended by Charles Hoffman) Sugar by Seressia Glass (rec’d by Amanda Diehl) Flat-Out Sexy by Erin McCarthy Worth It All by Claudia Connor Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Leslie Jamison Lab Girl by Hope Jahren The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente Done Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon Red or Dead by David Peace The Man with the Compound Eyes by Ming-Yi Wu Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 by Kai Ashante Wilson Chimera by David Wellington Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster Scarlet Devices by Delphine Dryden Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 To Say Nothing Of The Dog by Connie Willis Confessions by Kanae Minato, transl by Stephen Snyder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Murder in Time by Julie McElwain In the Club newsletter Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza Damn Delicious by Chungah Rhee Mark Bittman (How To Cook Everything Vegetarian or How To Cook Everything: Basics) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Lilah Pace Out by Natsuo Kirino Rules of Civility by Amor Towles Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 13 2017) My Fair Concubine by Jeannie Lin An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Katy Butler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 by Jenna Woginrich The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin White Oleander by Janet Fitch Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi 100 Must-Read Books About Complicated Mothers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Lehmann-Haupt (rec’d by Jaime H) Knock Yourself Up by Louise Sloan Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee The Black Count by Tom Reiss Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Michael Chabon Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 2 AM at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie Helene Bertino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 The Sheriff of Nottingham by Richard Kluger Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman The Tiger by John Vaillant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly Meg Medina (Mango, Abuela, and Me; Yaqui Delgado Wants To Kick Your Ass) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Azar Nafisi Negroland by Margo Jefferson The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade Home by Toni Morrison We Were Soldiers Once and Young by Harold G. Moore and Joseph Galloway The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes Rejected Princesses by Jason Porath Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science by Rachel Swaby Sally Ride by Lynn Sherr (recommended by Swapna) Girl at War by Sara Novic Kody Keplinger (DUFF, Run) The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked edited by Sheila Black, Michael Northen, Annabelle Hayse Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Neruda, translated by WS Merwin and Cristina Garcia Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy Love Poems, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger What Is This Thing Called Love by Kim Addonizio (a little eroticism, a little heartbreak) Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector, translated by Katrina Dodson The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Chin, translated by Chi-Young Kim Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer Excellent Women by Barbara Pym 100 Books about Starting Over post by Tracy Shapley Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler What You’re Really Meant to Do by Robert S. Kaplan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Modern Lovers by Emma Straub Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku (rec’d by Kristen) To Be a Machine by Mark O’Connell Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson Ceremony by Leslie Marmon-Silko Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson Anything by Louise Erdrich (Plague of Doves) In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (with caveat) When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds The Maze Runner by James Dashner Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen Jackaby series by William Ritter Words in the Air, edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton Ausma Zehanat Khan’s Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty series (The Unquiet Dead) How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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) by Robin Hobb Gentleman Bastards (The Lies of Locke Lamora #1) by Scott Lynch Inheritance Trilogy (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms #1) by NK Jemisin The Avalon series (The Mists of Avalon #1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith Our Harsh Logic from Breaking the Silence Born Palestinian, Born Black by Suheir Hammad How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden My Promised Land by Ari Shavit (rec’d by Michelle Anne Schingler) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 series by Kieran Kramer (When Harry Met Molly #1) Halfway to the Grave by Jeanine Frost Nine Lives by Dan Baum Voodoo Dreams by Jewell Parker Rhodes A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Siddhartha by Herman Hesse Eve out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward ADHD According to Zoe by Zoe Kessler Driven to Distraction & Delivered From Distraction by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey (recommended by @bookavore) You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy? by Kate Kelly (rec’d by @bookavore) ADHD Weekly newsletter, which is free and sent by Children & Adults with ADHD (CHADD) (rec’d by @bookavore) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley The Feathered Bone by Julie Cantrell Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris Intensity by Dean Koontz Sphere by Michael Crichton Heartburn by Nora Ephron Wangs Vs. The World by Jade Change Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Flynn Selfish, Shallow, Self-Absorbed edited by Meghan Daum Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics The Exorcist by William Peter Blattey Coraline by Neil Gaiman Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist The Escape by Mary Balogh Her Halloween Treat by Tiffany Reisz Beta Heroes in Romance post on Book Riot Unveiled by Courtney Milan Flat-Out Sexy by Erin McCarthy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Silvia Moreno-Garcia Victor LaValle (The Ballad of Black Tom) Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko Shrill by Lindy West You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott Rincey’s recs on YouTube: Short Books, Part 1 and Part 2 Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg (rec’d by Rachel Smalter Hall) The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy (rec’d by Rachel Smalter Hall) Pure by Julianna Baggott Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones The Killing Moon by NK Jemisin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 the Secret Fan by Lisa See Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos In On It by Elisabeth O’Toole The Interracial Adoption Option by Marlene Gail Fine Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth Atonement by Ian McEwan Midwives by Chris Bohjalian Oxygen by Carol Cassella Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Berry The Song of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce (Alanna: The First Adventure) Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo (Shadow and Bone) Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger The Black Magician series by Trudi Canavan (The Magician’s Guild) The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard Lambrusco by Ellen Cooney The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Renata Liwska Mango, Abuela, and Me by Meg Medina and Angela Dominguez The Sell-Out by Paul Beatty Pym by Mat Johnson The Wangs vs The World by Jade Chang Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury Roses and Rot by Kat Howard The Duchess War by Courtney Milan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Chambers The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber Nevada by Imogen Binnie Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz Holding Still For As Long As Possible by Zoe Whittall When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore Iron Cast by Destiny Soria The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Dreamland by Kevin Baker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to their Younger Selves edited by Sarah Moon Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog Resources Discussed Call to Action ACLU Planned Parenthood Your local abortion fund Southern Poverty Law Center National Resources Defense Council Housing Works Ali Forney Center CharityNavigator Looking to Help TinyLetter Social anxiety tips for calling reps Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Terkel The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin The Assistants by Camille Perri Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson White Oleander by Janet Fitch The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Country, A Long Walk in the Woods) Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner Michael Lewis (The Big Short, Moneyball) Dead Lucky by Lincoln Hall Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed Saving Kabul Corner by NH Senzai Websites: richincolor.com and http://www.diversityinya.com/ Does My Head Look Big in This by Randa Abdel-Fattah She Wore Red Trainers by Na’ima B. Robert Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy The 13th Tale by Diane Setterfield Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores by Jen Campbell The King’s English by Betsy Burton Cloudy With a Chance of Marriage by Kieran Kramer Flavia DeLuce series by Alan Bradley (The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie) Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn (The Duke and I) Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French (In the Woods #1) Codex Alera by Jim Butcher (Furies of Calderon #1) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Before Christmas by Eloisa James Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis The Language of Secrets by Ausma Zehanat Khan The Reader by Traci Chee Iron Cast by Destiny Soria Archivist Wasp by Nicole Horner-Stace Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White, The Moonstone) 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup She by H. Rider Haggard Orlando by Virginia Woolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Cameron Stewart, Brenden Fletcher, etc (Batgirl of Burnside) The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz Far From You by Tess Sharpe (rec’d by Kelly) Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser (rec’d by Tirzah) True Grit by Charles Portis Burn for Burn by Jenny Han The Fold by Peter Clines 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (MaddAddam series) The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre The Blackhouse by Peter May Wolf Winter by Cecilia Eckback The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Appointments at the Ends of the World by William Karesh The Boilerplate Rhino by David Quammen Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin Ghost Summer by Tananarave Due North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron Queers Destroy Horror The Mothers by Brit Bennett This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood A Passage to India by EM Forster The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy America Day By Day by Simone de Beauvoir Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Life and Others by Ted Chiang Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson Intimations by Alexandra Kleeman Salsa Nocturna by Daniel José Older Three Moments of an Explosion by China Mieville Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia McKillip The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales Lazarus Vol 1 by Greg Rucka When She Woke by Hilary Jordan Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Jennifer Government by Max Barry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Fershleiser) Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu Arcadia by Lauren Groff The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Galante Post on Cult Hits: 5 YAs To Satisfy Your Kimmy Schmidt Cravings by Sona Charaipotra The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte, trans. Sonia Soto The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger Oye What I’m Gonna Tell You by Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Jemisin (Inheritance Trilogy) The Awakening by Kate Chopin Destiny’s Embrace by Beverly Jenkins Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev Bangkok 8 by John Burdett Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap Four Reigns by Kukrit Pramoj, translated by Tulachandra An Ordinary Story by by Chart Korbjitti, translated by Marcel Barang The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake series) by CJ Sansom Jean Plaidy’s Tudor Saga (To Hold the Crown #1) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 (Hope at Dawn, #1) by Stacy Henrie (rec’d by Jessica Tripler) My Lady Jane by Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows The Phantom Lover by Elizabeth Mansfield You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott Time Salvager by Wesley Chu Persona by Genevieve Valentine The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Rhys Wicked by Gregory Macguire Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Korean Cool by Euny Hong The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey Get a Financial Life by Beth Kobliner I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi The Perfect Balance by Hannah McQueen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 and Bird by Katherine Catmull Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly Every Day by David Levithan Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and guest Eric Smith talk books for teen reluctant readers, classroom read-alouds, hopeful reads and more in this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Edge of the Light by Elizabeth George 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 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Inside Out & Back Again by Thanha Lai Nick & Tesla series from Steve Hockensmith and Bob Plugfelder The Seventh Wish by Kate Messner The Wild Robot by Peter Brown The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Empire Falls by Richard Russo The Damned Utd by David Peace To The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson The Magicians by Lev Grossman Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Chime by Franny Billingsley Liberation by Brian Francis Slattery The Trouble with Destiny by Lauren Morrill Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy Salvage by Alexandra Duncan Autofocus by Lauren Gibaldi Tracked by Jenny Martin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn recommend light-hearted love stories, graphic novels for kids, books about food and more on this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey and EveryLibrary. 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 Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade Whatever by SJ Goslee The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness Delancey by Molly Wizenberg Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver Life Is Meals by James Salter (beloved by Rebecca Schinsky) The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris (rec’d by Rebecca Schinsky) Period: A Girl’s Guide by JoAnn Loulan et al (rec’d by Kristina Pino) Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee The Swap by Megan Shull Space Dumplins by Craig Thompson Hildafolk by Luke Pearson Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier Giants Beware! by Jorge Aguirre Kraken by China Mieville Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda Hexed: Harlot and Thief Vol. 1 by Michael Alan Nelson and Dan Mora The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy Taking a Chance by AM Arthur Sunset Park by Santino Hassell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn recommend feminist literature, summer reads, surprising nonfiction, and more in this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by After Anna by Alex Lake and To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey. 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 Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit Shrill by Lindy West Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny Redefining Realness by Janet Mock Carry the One by Carol Anshaw Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng We Were Liars by E Lockhart Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Modern Lovers by Emma Straub Bloodline by Claudia Gray Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams K Blows Top by Peter Carlson A Covert Affair by Jennet Conant Shelter by Jung Yun Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain The Lady Matador’s Hotel by Cristina Garcia Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and guest expert Thea James of The Book Smugglers answer your science fiction and fantasy questions in this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble 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 The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart The Guinevere Cycle by Persia Woolley (Child of the Northern Spring #1) The Dark Tower series by Stephen King (The Gunslinger #1) Merlin’s Harp by Anne Compton If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Long Division by Kiese Laymon Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgewick Starlight Crystal by Christopher Pike Doomsday Book by Connie Willis The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor The Ruins by Scott Smith The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley The Acacia series by David Anthony Durham (The War With the Mein #1) The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn recommend fantasy, nonfiction about music, Japanese authors, and more in this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by EveryLibrary and Book Riot’s Book Mail boxes. 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 Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor Seraphina by Rachel Hartman Sabriel by Garth Nix The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia McKillip Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks (RJS) Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride (RJS and Liberty) Let’s Talk About Love by Carl Wilson I Don’t Care About Your Band by Julie Klausner Beyond Murakami post The Ring by Koji Suzuki The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion Poolside with Joan Didion post Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson The Melting Season by Jami Attenberg The Bees by Laline Paull The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews Prophecy by Ellen Oh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn recommend fun books for hard times, under the radar novels, and more in this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by EveryLibrary and Harper Paperbacks, publishers of Erika Johansen’s bestselling Queen of the Tearling trilogy. 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 Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Citizen by Claudia Rankine I Shall Be Near to You by Erin Lindsay McCabe The Rogue Pirate’s Bride by Shana Galen Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson The Lightning Thief by Percy Jackson Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol 1 by Ryan North and Erica Henderson The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht The Girl From the Garden by Parnaz Foroutan The Fireman by Joe Hill The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel Anything by China Miéville (either The City and the City or Three Moments of an Explosion) Man by Kim Thuy, translated by Sheila Fischman Great by Sara Benincasa The Voice of the River by Melanie Rae Thon How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda, Jenn, and guest author Courtney Milan answer your romance questions in this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Pinhole Press and Dream Jumper by Greg Grunberg and Lucas Turnbloom. 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 Devil’s Game by Joanna Wlde The Saint by Tiffany Reisz Forbidden by Charlotte Stein A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare How the Duke Was Won by Lenora Bell Where Dreams Begin by Lisa Kleypas Beyond Shame by Kit Rocha (The Beyond Series) Be My Fantasy by Alisha Rai Madame X by Jasinda Wilder Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer Austenland by Shannon Hale Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie Night Hawk by Beverly Jenkins Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon Safe Harbor by Radclyffe Something True by Karelia Stetz-Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn recommend beach reads, books to take camping, road trip audiobooks, and more. This episode is sponsored by Harper Paperbacks, publishers of Erika Johansen’s bestselling Queen of the Tearling trilogy and Hachette Books, publishers of I’m Your Biggest Fan by Kate Coyne. 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 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey Tigerman by Nick Harkaway The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell Lexicon by Max Barry Smoke by Dan Vyleta Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey She Matters by Susanna Sonnenberg Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam Friendship by Emily Gould Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell A Kiss at Midnight by Eloisa James This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead A Spy in the House by YS Lee How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu Cinder by Marissa Meyer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn recommend audiobooks for summer reading, books about menopause, Antarctic stories, and more! This episode is sponsored by The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes by Zach Dundas 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 New audiobooks newsletter! The Cutting Season by Attica Locke The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (read by Bryan Cranston) Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (read by Kathleen Wilhoite from The Gilmore Girls) Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (read by Lin-Manuel Miranda) My Last Continent by Midge Raymond (out June 21) Our Lady of Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke (rec’d by Swapna Krishna) All Around the World: Women Writers from Every Continent by Alison Peters We Mammals in Hospitable Times by Jynne Dilling Martin Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing The Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Persona by Genevieve Valentine Huntress by Malinda Lo Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause by Judy Norsigian The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor Lab Girl by Hope Jahren I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Me, My Hair, and I edited by Elizabeth Benedict Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn recommend books about pregnancy, mysteries, Irish fiction, and more! This episode is sponsored by TryAudiobooks.com and The Girls by Emma Cline. 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 Mentioned LGBTQ Episode Gilead by Marilynne Robinson A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (rec’d by Angel Cruz) Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories by Carson McCullers After Birth by Elisa Albert The Blue Jay’s Dance by Louise Erdrich Breeder by Ariel Gore From the Hips by Rebecca Odes and Ceridwen Morris, rec’d by Rachel Smalter Hall Ms. Marvel, Vol 1: No Normal by G Willow Wilson (editor Sana Amanat’s TED talk) The Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea, translated by Marilyn Booth The Faithful Scribe by Shahan Mufti Sex and the Citadel by Shereen El Feki (rec’d by Rioter Kareem Shaheen) Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Destiny’s Embrace by Beverly Jenkins The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan Wallbanger by Alice Clayton A Night Like This by Julia Quinn Flat-Out Sexy by Erin McCarthy A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy Black Lake by Johanna Lane Saints and Sinners by Edna O’Brien Green Shadows, White Whale by Ray Bradbury Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn recommend fun history books, fairytale retellings for adults, and more! This episode is sponsored by The Fireman by Joe Hill 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 Mentioned How To Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman White Trash by Nancy Isenberg A People’s History of Science by Clifford Conner The Black Count by Tom Reiss If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo Relish by Lucy Knisley Going Bovine by Libba Bray All-American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino N0S4A2 by Joe Hill Landline by Rainbow Rowell Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes Uprooted by Naomi Novik The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Roses and Rot by Kat Howard Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey Gunpowder Alchemy by Jeannie Lin Scarlet Devices by Delphine Dryden Blood of the Wicked by Karina Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn recommend books for the Read Harder and other book challenges! This episode is sponsored by Book of the Month Club and Pinhole Press. 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 Mentioned We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Sex Object by Jessica Valenti Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes A House of My Own by Sandra Cisneros Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel The Hours by Michael Cunningham 100 Books About Mental Illness post Marbles by Ellen Forney Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee The Second Amendment: A Biography by Michael Waldman The Son by Philipp Meyer The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Stoner by John Williams The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky Grimspace by Ann Aguirre Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole Ascension (Tangled Axon #1) by Jacqueline Koyanagi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and guest expert Preeti Chhibber take on kids book questions in this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Dietland by Sarai Walker and Bright Cellars. 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 Mentioned The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste EllRay Jakes series (EllRay Jakes is Not a Chicken!, #1) by Sally Warner and Jamie Harper Jason Reynolds Lee & Low Children’s Book Council Diversity site Kick by Walter Dean Myers Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch The Princess in Black by Shannon Hale & Dean Hale Princess Grace by Mary Hoffman The Best Princess Books for All Ages, post by Karina Glaser Abel’s Island by William Steig The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White Redwall by Brian Jacques The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary Ms. Marvel: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona Drama from Raina Telgemeier Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity by Dave Roman Cleopatra in Space: Target Practice by Mike Maihack Days with Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel The Savage Fortress by Sarwat Chadda The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart Sitting Still Like a Frog by Eline Snel, recommended by Molly Wetta’s library Charlotte and the Quiet Place by Deborah Sosin, recommended by Jessica Woodbury Mike Lupica The Hero Two Doors Down by Sharon Robinson Kid Owner by Tim Green Pets Are For Keeps, Animal Inn series by Virginia Vail Infinity Ring series (A Mutiny in Time #1), includes authors like Carrie Ryan and Matt de la Peña Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn recommend series by POC, light-hearted books for book club, Southeast Asian Lit, and more on this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by TryAudiobooks.com and The A-Z of You and Me by James Hannah. 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 Mentioned Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel Jose Older Re Jane by Patricia Park Literary Brooklyn by Evan Hughes Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood (rec’d by Sharanya) The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma Ask the Passengers by A.S. King Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris Bellwether by Connie Willis Lamb by Christopher Moore The Vegetarian by Han Kang The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Pluto by Naoki Urasawa and Osamu Tezuka Big Machine by Victor LaValle In the Country by Mia Alvar The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin The Gun Dealer’s Daughter by Gina Apostol Black Water Rising by Attica Locke Primates of Park Avenue by Wednesday Martin Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie American Housewife by Helen Ellis Single Carefree Mellow by Katherine Heiny Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn recommend AI sci-fi, funny books, political nonfiction, and more on this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood and The A-Z of You and Me by James Hannah. 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! Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie I, Robot by Isaac Asimov All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Chaos Station by Jenn Burke and Kelly Jensen Old Man’s War by John Scalzi The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani The Agency Series by YS Lee (A Spy in the House, #1) I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi Then Comes Marriage by Roberta Kaplan Forgetting to Be Afraid by Wendy Davis This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa Harris-Perry Stephen Graham Jones (Mongrels) Leslie Marmon Silko (Ceremony) Louise Erdrich (Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country) Bojan Louis (“If Nothing, The Land”) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and Amanda recommend nature writing, travel narratives, queer horror, and more on this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by The Killing Forest and Shadow Hour. 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 Martian by Andy Weir Lady Killer by Joelle Jones and Jamie S. Rich The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales Sex Criminals Volume 1: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins The Boilerplate Rhino by David Quammen An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie, transl by James Kirkup Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere by Andre Aciman Murder in the Marais by Cara Black Zone by Mathias Enard, translated by Charlotte Mandell Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig (rec’d by Liberty) Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford – see also, Liberty Incarceration Nations by Baz Dreisinger Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello Out by Natsuo Kirino, trans Stephen Snyder Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (Danika) Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam Queers Destroy Horror, Nightmare Magazine Lambda Literary, 6 of the Scariest Queer Horror Books Ever One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase Unveiled by Courtney Milan Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh Nobody’s Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenn and guest Swapna recommend comics for kids, superhero novels, graphic memoirs and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Live and the Oh, Comics! Podcast. 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 Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye, #1 of the Geronimo Stilton series Tiny Titans: Welcome to the Treehouse by Art Baltazar and Franco Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth by Judd Winick Secret Hero Society: Study Hall of Justice by Derek Fridolfs and Dustin Nguyen Turbulence by Samit Basu Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter Fallout (Lois Lane 1) by Gwenda Bond A Once Crowded Sky by Tom King Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (out June 7 2016) Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich The Sculptor by Scott McCloud Krishna: A Journey Within by Abhishek Singh Pretty Deadly Vol 1: The Shrike by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew March, Book One and March, Book Two by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell Showa: A History of Japan, 1926-1939 by Shigeru Mizuki, translated by Zack Davisson Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, et al Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, et al Lady Killer by Joelle Jones and Jamie S. Rich Anything by Lucy Knisley (Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn recommend excellent biographies, books for those who have lost a dog, and more on this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Live and our two new newsletters (sign up and be entered to win a $100 Amazon gift card). 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! State of Wonder by Ann Patchett Pandemic by Sonia Shah Valerie’s new nature books post anything by Annie Dillard The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff John Adams by David McCullough The Black Count by Tom Reiss Muhammad Ali: Through the Eyes of the World edited by Mark Collings Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead series Neapolitann series by Elena Ferrante trans Ann Goldstein Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy Trilogy (Sea of Poppies is #1) Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin (Master & Commander is #1) Storify list Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Agorafabulous!! by Sara Benincasa Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Mark Doty’s Dog Years (rec’d by Rebecca Hussey) Merle’s Door by Ted Kerasote A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan The Turner House by Angela Flournoy Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton, recommended by Liberty Hardy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn recommend audiobooks, light reading for dark times, and more on this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by 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! Split by Suzanne Finnamore Yes Please by Amy Poehler (on audio!) The essay in Tiny Beautiful Things When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes, read by the author Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini, read by the author, recommended by Brenna Clarke Gray Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Goodreads Author), Lola Rogers (Translator) Happy are the Happy by Yasmina Reza, translated by John Cullen Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord Yes, Chef: A Memoir by Marcus Samuelsson Uprooted by Naomi Novik Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson The Giver by Lois Lowry Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Citizen by Claudia Rankine If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken The Inheritance Trilogy by NK Jemisin Old Man’s War series series by John Scalzi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amanda and Jenn recommend South American lit, adult fiction for YA lovers, and more on this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam and the Book of the Month Club. 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! Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector, trans. Katrina Dodson (Brazil) Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra (Chile) Shantytown by Cesar Aira, translated by Chris Andrews (Argentina) With My Dog Eyes by Hilda Hilst, translated by Adam Morris (Brazil) The State We’re In: Maine Stories by Ann Beattie The Cider House Rules by John Irving The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin Cost by Roxana Robinson Maine by J Courtney Sullivan People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson The Last Girlfriend on Earth by Simon Rich Oye What I’m Gonna Tell You by Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes Unfinished Business by Anne-Marie Slaughter Getting to Yes by Ury, Fisher, Patton 50 Billion Dollar Boss edited by Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman Roses and Rot by Kat Howard (May 17th) Lexicon by Max Barry The Regional Office Is Under Attack by Manuel Gonzales The Killing Moon by NK Jemisin Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor Archivist Wasp by Nicole Horner-Stace An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Nafisi The Faithful Scribe by Shahan Mufti Body Where I Was Born by Guadalupe Nettel, J.T. Lichtenstein (Translation) Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman (Translation) Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, translated by Thomas and Carol Christensen The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden The Vegetarian by Han Kang Deborah Smith (Translator) Re Jane by Patricia Park Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin, Kim Chi-Young (Translator) Jade Lady Burning by Martin Limon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Barbara Kingsolver Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Cat Valente The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho Get in Trouble by Kelly Link Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.S. Duffy Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes I Married You For Happiness by Lily Tuck The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (trigger warning for domestic violence) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky, translated by Tim Mohr Me Before You by Jojo Moyes The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan The Ice Queen by Nele Neuhaus Chimera by David Wellington Beating Back the Devil, Maryn McKenna Cuckoo’s Calling, Robert Galbraith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 series The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz Read Harder Video Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan, Annie Tucker The Sea Is Our: Tales of Southeast Asia Steampunk On a Red Station Drifting by Aliette de Bodard Diversity in YA Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky All American Boys by Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Haikasoru (rec’d by Rachel Cordasco) An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro Memories of Silk and Straw by Junichi Saga The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt The Son by Phillip Meyer Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart True Grit by Charles Portis Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko by Leslie Marmon Silko Jenny Han The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda Preeti’s YA recs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Lamott On Writing by Stephen King Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed Year of Yes, Shonda Rhimes About Writing, Samuel Delaney Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer The Cutting Season, Attica Locke Orlando, Virginia Woolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi On Such a Full Sea, Chang-Rae Lee Radiance, Catherynne Valente A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar Grimspace by Ann Aguirre Cinder by Marissa Meyer Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie Consider Phlebas, Iain M Banks Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Incarceration Nations, Baz Dreisinger Yes Chef, Marcus Samuelsson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Past by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair (Amon Gert) What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric A. Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945 by William Sheridan Allen (Northeim, Germany) George by Alex Gino Better Nate Than Never by Tim Federle LGBTQ Books for Middle Grade Readers post Gracefully Grayson by Amy Polonski The Misfits by James Howe The Difference Between You and Me Arvida by Samuel Archibald Diving Belles by Lucy Wood Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman Thunderstruck and Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones Get in Trouble by Kelly Link Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 by Mat Johnson Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley (Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie) Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot My Man Jeeves by PG Wodehouse Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill Maybe Baby, edited by Lori Leibovich Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin I Can Barely Take Care of Myself by Jen Kirkman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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-political-campaign-novels/ Primary Colors by Anonymous The Children of Men by PD James Lumberjanes by Grace Ellis and Noelle Stevenson et al Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente Hildafolk series by Luke Pearson Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke Magic Marks the Spot by Caroline Carlson Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Art of the Novella, Melville House) Tor.com’s Novella series Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series Dawn by Octavia Butler Who Fears Death? by Nnedi Okorafor The Keltiad by Patricia Kenneally (out of print/hard to find but worth it) Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin Turbulence by Samit Basu When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds Complicit by Stephanie Keuhn First Second: Gene Luen Yang, Dave Roman, Jorge Aguirre, MK Reed Barry Lyga, James Dashner, Scott Westerfeld http://diversityinya.tumblr.com/ Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel Poisoned Apples by Christine Heppermann Me, My Hair, and I, edited by Elizabeth Benedict I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra The Merman by Carl-Johan Vallgren The Mersault Investigation by Kamel Daoud The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (and anything else from New Directions) anything Natsuo Kirino and Cixin Liu Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodische When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Get in Trouble by Kelly Link The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman Sarah Waters–Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith Drood by Dan Simmons Possession by A.S. Byatt Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea The Strangler Vine by MJ Carter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Vaughan and Fiona Staples Shadowshapers by DJ Older Twelfth Night by Shakespeare Christine Hepperman’s Poisoned Apples: Poetry for You Inside Out and Back Again, Thanhha Lai anything Ellen Hopkins 2 AM at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino Landline by Rainbow Rowell Where’d You Go Bernadette, Maria Semple Hogfather by Terry Pratchett The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper Let the Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist NOS4A2 by Joe Hill Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes Chimera, David Wellington Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 George Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Georgette Heyer The Beekeeper’s Apprentice series by Laurie R. King Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Wallbanger by Alice Clayton To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Longbourn by Jo Baker The Martian by Andy Weir Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Never Surrender (new Churchill bio) by John Kelly The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighters’ Struggle for Freedom in W.W. I and Equality at Home by Peter N Nelson The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Into the Blizzard by Michael Winter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Circumnavigated FairyLand in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld Breakaway by Kat Spears The Crossover by Kwame Alexander The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck (not a kid’s book!) Little House in Brookfield by Maria D Wilkes (more here) Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin and Lauren Tobia Not Norman by Kelly Bennett and Noah Z Jones (Board books I love: The Bear Snores On, Workman’s Indestructibles) Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen Max Found Two Sticks by Brian Pinkney Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena (Board books: Andy Warhol’s Colors by Susan Goldman Rubin; A Book of Sleep by Il Sung Na) Sabriel series by Garth Nix Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian’s Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive by Laura Hillenbrand Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 anthology — Alyssa Cole, Lena Hart, Kate McMurray, Stacey Agdern Courtney Milan – Brothers Sinister series (Suffragette Scandal) Zoraida Cordova “On the Verge” series – Luck on the Line Surviving Raine by Shay Savage Sierra Simone’s Priest Emma Chase’s Sustained Wallbanger by Alice Clayton Alisha Rai (Karimi Siblings is a good starting point) Contemporary authors: Kristan Higgins, Victoria Dahl, Julie James Asking for It by Lilah Pace A Strong Hand by Catt Ford Charlotte Stein’s Intrusion Jane O’Reilly – The Pleasure Principle Marjorie Liu (Dirk & Steele– Tiger Eye) Grimspace by Ann Aguirre Kristen Callihan – Steampunk Pamela Palmer – Feral Warriors (Desire Untamed) Angel’s Blood by Nalini Singh (fantasy/romance, Guild Hunter series) Amaryllis by Jayne Castle Linda Howard’s Mr. Perfect Alyssa Cole’s Mixed Signals (third in Off the Grid series) Tessa Dare’s Castles Ever After series Lorraine Heath – Scoundrels of St. James, London’s Greatest Lovers Lisa Kleypas – Start with “The Gamblers,” then Wallflowers, then Hathaways Monica McCarty – Highland Guard An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James Pocket Old School Christmas Anthologies Contemporary Romance dominates here (HQN Categories). Lily Everett – Home for Christmas Sarah Wendell Hannukah short – Lighting the Flames Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 on the Show! Dinner: A Love Story by Jenny Rosenstrach Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl Blood Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton Make the Bread, Buy The Butter by Jennifer Reese When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams Diving Belles by Lucy Wood Bossypants by Tina Fey Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher Assassination Vacation or Lafeyette in the Semi-United States by Sarah Vowell Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows The Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead Lovers at the Chamelion Club by Fancine Prose And the Show Went On by Alan Riding Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward On Immunity by Eula Biss Unspeakable by Meghan Daum We Should All Be Feminist by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Informed Air by Muriel Spark Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying by Carol Leifer Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Oreo by Fran Ross Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Jennifer Egan Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due Defy the Dark anthology (esp. Malinda Lo’s “Ghost Town” and “The Dark Side of the Moon” by Dia Reeves) The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Stories in any collection edited by Ellen Datlow The New Black edited by Richard Thomas (more here) Zone One by Colson Whitehead The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle Slade House by David Mitchell The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell The Darkling by R.B. Chesterton Resource one for diversity Question (Write World) Lesley Conner (adult)– The Weight of Chains and Amy Lukavics (teen)– Daughters unto Devils Resource two for diversity Question Wytches by Scott Snyder The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor Ghost Radio by Leopoldo Gout Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter Ring by Koji Suzuki Nazareth Hill by Ramsey Campbell NOS4A2 by Joe Hill The Rising by Brian Keene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Time Traveler by Everett Maroon Huntress by Malinda Lo Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m danforth Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin Prairie Ostrich by Tamai Kobayashi Adaptation by Malinda Lo Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller The Color Purple by Alice Walker Sphinx by Anne Garreta, translated by Emma Ramadan all of Sarah Waters’s other books, especially Fingersmith The Summer We Got Free by Mia Mckenzie The Last Nude by Ellis Avery The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie My Education by Susan Choi Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, trans Lisa Dillman Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley (and anything from Melville House’s Art of the Novella) Two Or Three Things I Know For Sure by Dorothy Alison The Story of Ruth and Eliza by Kristen Stone Sisterhood by Julie R Enszer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to Episode 2! This episode focuses on recommendation questions about comics and graphic novels (with bonus Books About Books and Books About Asia questions). ERGO, I brought on Ardo Omer, comics expert to the max, to be this week’s co-host. Ardo is a contributor at Panels and a senior writer at Women Write About Comics. She started out as a book blogger before expanding into writing about comics and television. When she’s not imagining her home of Toronto as Gotham 2.0, she’s obsessing over K-Pop and Jdramas. Follow her on Twitter @ArdoOmer. This episode is sponsored by Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta and Penguin Random House Audiobooks. 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! Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue Deconnick and Val Delandra Rat Queens by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Laura Tavishati The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North and Erica Henderson SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki Hark! The Vagrant & Step Aside Pops by Kate Beaton But I Really Wanted To Be An Anthropologist by Margaux Motin The Wicked & the Divine- Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie Ms. Marvel- G Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona Wytches by Scott Snyder, Jock Y: The Last Man by Brian K Vaughan, Pia Guerra (Pencils) and José Marzán, Jr. (Inker) Velvet by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection edited by Hope Nicholson Josh’s Read Harder video Tell me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sarah Farizan Through the Woods by Emily Carroll This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki Virgil by Steve Orlando, J.D. Faith, Chris Beckett, and Tom Mauer (Steve Orlando also writes Midnighter comic at DC Comics) Oath kickstarter Low- Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini Lazarus- Greg Rucka and Santiago Arcas ODY-C- Matt Fraction and Christian Ward The Wake by Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage by Jen Van Meter and Roberto De La Torre Womanthology: Space Storied Life of AJ Fikry (Gabrielle Zevin) Too Loud a Solitude- Bohumil Hrabal The Club Dumas- Arturo Perez-Reverte and Sonia Soto Exquisite Corpse by Pénélope Bagieu Thief of Lies by Brenda Drake (2016) On the Noodle Road by Jen Lin-Liu Soy Sauce for Beginners Kirstin Chen China Wakes: the Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, Nicholas Kristof/Sheryl WuDunn The Undertaking of Lily Chen by Danica Novgorodoff The Divine by Boaz Lavie, Asaf Hanuka, and Tomer Hanuka Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to our first episode! I brought on Jenn Northington to be my guest host for our kickoff event because, to be frank, no one knows books like Jenn knows books. She 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 Entry Island by Peter May and Killer Run by Lynn Cahoon. 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! Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam Life after Life by Kate Atkinson All the lesbian romance for Marissa The Martian by Andy Weir The Engagements by J Courtney Sullivan Tigerman by Nick Harkaway The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee Tusk that Did the Damage by Tania James Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller anything edited by Kate Bernheimer Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin Fledgling, Octavia Butler The Ground Beneath her Feet, Salman Rushdie Re Jane by Patricia Park the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We’ve got a new podcast coming your way! Get Booked will be a biweekly write-in show for personalized book recommendations, whether they’re for you, your great Aunt Sally, or anyone else in your life! Want to know what to read to fill the Harry Potter void? We’re here for you. Need a bookish gift for your dad? On it. Want a list of excellent romance novels for your book club? I’ve got your back. I’ll be hosting the show, and each week I’ll have a new guest host to help me. Check out this quick preview episode for a taste and subscribe in iTunes here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices