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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