Amanda and Jenn discuss must-read literary fiction, queer fantasy reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Flatiron Books, publishers of The Night Country by Melissa Albert, and TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations.

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The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (rec’d by Stephanie)

Symphony for the City of the Dead by M. T. Anderson and the Classical Breakdown podcast (rec’d by Laura C)

The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia (rec’d by Summer)

Books Discussed

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (tw: sexual abuse of children)

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (tw: harm to children)

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo

Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover

How to Be a Family by Dan Kois

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (tw: slavery and associated violence)

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos, trans by Hildegard Serle

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (tw: body horror)

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel (tw: bubonic plague)

The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera

The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood

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