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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.

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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)

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Bad Choices All Over the Place Mar 17, 2016

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Amanda and Jenn recommend witchy fiction, books for Downton Abbey fans, and more on this week’s Get Booked.

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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

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Sex and Drugs and the Rocky Horror Picture Show Mar 10, 2016

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Amanda and Jenn recommend horror, Nancy Drew read-a-likes for grownups, and more on this week’s Get Booked.

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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

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Also, Some Camels Mar 03, 2016

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Amanda and Jenn recommend books about space, modern Westerns, and more on this week’s Get Booked.

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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

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Saddled With a Murdress Feb 25, 2016

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Amanda and Jenn recommend literary mysteries, fantasy romance, self-help for creative types, and more on this week’s Get Booked.

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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

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Mermaids Because of Reasons Feb 18, 2016

Show notes

Amanda and Jenn recommend works of magical realism, portal fantasy, epic sweeping family sagas, and more!

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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

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Send Me Short Stories Feb 10, 2016

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Amanda and guest co-host Liberty recommend short story collections, WWII nonfiction, and more.

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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 Troubleby Kelly Link

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OMG I LOVE READING Feb 04, 2016

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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.

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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