Amanda and Jenn recommend fun books for hard times, under the radar novels, and more in this week’s Get Booked!

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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

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