Amanda and Jenn discuss crime families, nonbinary characters, conspiracy theories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Books Discussed

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman

The Acacia series (The War With the Mein #1) by David Anthony Durham

The Worldbreaker Saga (The Mirror Empire #1) by Kameron Hurley

Hold Me by Courtney Milan

Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender by Nick Krieger

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

Every Day by David Levithan

Hot Season by Susan DeFreitas

The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth

Adaptation by Malinda Lo

20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, translated by WS Merwin and Cristina Garcia

Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy

Love Poems, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation

Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger

What Is This Thing Called Love by Kim Addonizio (a little eroticism, a little heartbreak)

Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector, translated by Katrina Dodson

The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Chin, translated by Chi-Young Kim

Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

100 Books about Starting Over post by Tracy Shapley

Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler

What You’re Really Meant to Do by Robert S. Kaplan

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