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Hard Boiled Cookbooks Jan 21, 2016

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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.

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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

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The Night Circus Void Jan 14, 2016

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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.

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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

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Grief, Translations, and Wacky British Fantasy Jan 07, 2016

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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

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Holiday Recommendations Part II Dec 17, 2015

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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

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Holiday Recommendations! Dec 02, 2015

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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

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Can I Get Kid Lit? Nov 19, 2015

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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

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Ready for Romance (at Book Riot Live!) Nov 12, 2015

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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

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Asking for Audiobooks Nov 05, 2015

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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

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Haunted by Horror Oct 22, 2015

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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

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Looking For LGBTQ Lit Oct 08, 2015

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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

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