Amanda and Jenn discuss indie horror books, feeling connected, cinnamon roll characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by The Chronicles of Now podcast from Pushkin Industries, Flatiron Books, publisher of His & Hers by Alice Feeney, and Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle, now available from Algonquin Books.

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Douglas Preston’s Monster of Florence (rec’d by Kim)

Dawn by Octavia Butler (book 1 in her Xenogenesis series) and The Caphenon: Book 1 in The Chronicles of Alsea series by Fletcher DeLancey (rec’d by Wynnde)

Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos (rec’d by Charleen)

Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean (rec’d by Kristi)

JY Yang’s Tensorate Series (First book is The Black Tides of Heaven) (rec’d by Amber)

The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer (rec’d by Lee)

In the Shadow of Statues by Mitch Landrieu (rec’d by Laura)

Books Discussed

The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

Saga: Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

The Overstory by Richard Powers (tw: suicide, self harm)

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Somewhere in the Middle by Deborah Francisco Douglas

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (tw: racism, harm to children)

Elegy For the Undead by Matthew Vesely (October 13 2020) from Lanternfish Press (Seanan McGuire’s thread)

The Bromance Book Club series by Lyssa Kay Adams

Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker

Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden (tw: body horror)

The Tensorate Series by JY Neon Yang (tw: harm to children)

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