Amanda and Jenn discuss a bunch of different book group recs, books about caregiving, modern novels for classics lovers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Inflamed by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel (rec’d by Heather)

Of Echoes Born by ‘Nathan Burgoine, House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland, Alone by EJ Noyes, Nottingham and Thorn by Anna Burke (rec’d by Wynnde)

Pine by Francine Toon (rec’d by Georgia)

Books Discussed

The Soul of Care by Arthur Kleinman

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Out by Natsuo Kirino, transl. by Stephen Snyder (tw: sexual assault, domestic violence/abuse, also very murdery)

Blake or the Huts of America by Martin R. Delaney (cw: slavery & related violence) h/t Nisi Shawl’s Black Speculative Fiction reading list

Matrix by Lauren Groff

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor

Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza 

A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (tw: suicide)

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Cordova

The Evangelicals by Frances FitzGerald

Blessed by Kate Bowler

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

Who Is Vera Kelly by Rosalie Knecht (cw: child abuse, homophobia, antisemitism)

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