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Get Booked is a weekly show of personalized book recommendations.

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Heart Feels Jun 09, 2016

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Amanda and Jenn recommend fun history books, fairytale retellings for adults, and more!

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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 Monstersby Lauren Beukes

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Roses and Rot by Kat Howard

Mr. Foxby 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

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Read Harder Jun 02, 2016

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Amanda and Jenn recommend books for the Read Harder and other book challenges!

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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

Marblesby 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

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Robot Problems May 26, 2016

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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.

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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

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Inappropriate Dead Baddies May 19, 2016

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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.

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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

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Gasping Into the Book May 12, 2016

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Amanda and Jenn recommend AI sci-fi, funny books, political nonfiction, and more on this week’s Get Booked!

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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”)

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Weird Number of Snakes May 04, 2016

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Jenn and Amanda recommend nature writing, travel narratives, queer horror, and more on this week’s Get Booked!

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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

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House-Wife, But Also Assassin Apr 28, 2016

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Jenn and guest Swapna recommend comics for kids, superhero novels, graphic memoirs and more on this week’s Get Booked.

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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)

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Bromance on the High Seas Apr 21, 2016

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Amanda and Jenn recommend excellent biographies, books for those who have lost a dog, and more on this week’s Get Booked!

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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

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It Gets Real Grey Apr 14, 2016

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Amanda and Jenn recommend audiobooks, light reading for dark times, and more on this week’s Get Booked!

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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

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Boyfriend, Spectral or Otherwise Apr 06, 2016

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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.

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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

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