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Homer and Flathead Screwdrivers Mar 08, 2018

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Amanda and Jenn discuss Korean fiction, Central American authors, fluffy audiobooks, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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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

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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

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A Snowflake And A Cinnamon Bun Mar 01, 2018

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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.

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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)

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Gruesome But Funny Feb 20, 2018

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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.

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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

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Two Demi-Gods Going For A Walk Feb 13, 2018

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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.

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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

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If You're Into Dew Feb 07, 2018

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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.

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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

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Political Witch Nuns Jan 30, 2018

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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.

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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

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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

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Pirates Make Everything Better Jan 23, 2018

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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.

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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

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Festering Demonic Influences Jan 16, 2018

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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.

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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

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Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder