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Bookrageous Episode 68; Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball

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Bookrageous Episode 83; Banned BooksWhat We’re Reading
PaulStar Wars Aftermath by Chuck WendigSmuggler's Run: A Han Solo Adventure by Greg Rucka and Phil NotoUndermajor Domo Minor by Patrick DeWittThe Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi CoatesMarvel and a Wonder by Joe Meno
JoshThe Brothers Cabal by Jonathan HowardAsking For It by Kate HardingCinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy OrensteinMissoula by Jon Krakauer
PreetiBoys Don't Knit in Public by T. S. EastonIf I Was Your Girl by Meredith RussoHot Pterodactyl Boyfriend by Alan CumynGoing Bovine by Libba Bray
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The most frequently challenged and banned books in the USBanned Books Week is a Crock and the Bookriot responseTrivia about banned books week
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Bookrageous Episode 83; Banned Books

Bookrageous Episode 82; Diversity in Books

Intro Music; "Bad Karma" by Ida Maria

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:05] Victoire, Maryse Conde

[2:30] Bright Lines, Tanwi Nandini Islam

[3:40] Kalpa Imperial, Angelica Gorodischer

Josh

[5:00] Drinking in America, Susan Cheever (October 13 2015)

[6:10] The Witches: Salem, 1962, Stacy Schiff (October 27 2015)

[9:15] Out on the Wire, Jessica Abel

Preeti

[11:00] The Year We Fell Apart, Emily Martin (January 26 2016)

[13:15] Loki: Agent of Asgard

[15:35] Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates


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Intermission; "Intermission" by Lee Fields and the Expressions

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Diversity in Books

[23:50] We Need Diverse Books

[24:10] We Need Diverse Romance, twitter.com/wocinromance and twitter.com/diverseromance

[25:05] On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard

[25:50] Lambda Literary Awards (LGBTQ)
Stonewall Book Awards (LGBTQ)
Schneider Family Book Awards for disability in lit

[27:10] Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman

[27:50] Coretta Scott King Award (African American lit) 
Michael L. Printz Award 
Alex Awards (for adult books with YA appeal) 

[29:45] Words Without Borders
PEN America
Neustadt Prize for International Literature
Lambda Literary

[34:40] Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is, John Scalzi

[37:05] Liar, Justine Larbalestier

[38:05] The Kane Chronicles, Rick Riordan

[39:30] ‘Bring It On’: The Complete Oral History

[41:15] Nalini Singh

[42:48] Chimera, David Wellington

[43:20] My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, Jennifer Teege

[44:45] Gemsigns, Stephanie Saulter

[46:10] The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu

[46:30] The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere, John Chu

[47:20] Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli

[48:30] Radio Silence and Signal Boost, Alyssa Cole

[50:30] The Kitchen Daughter, Jael McHenry

[51:35] Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel

[51:50] Secret Wars: Romance

[53:15] The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl

[53:30] Batgirl, and its fixes for transphobic language

[53:55] Gotham Academy

[54:00] Fresh Romance

[54:10] Jem and the Holograms, Kelly Thompson and Sophie Campbell

54:25 Lumberjanes (now canon!)

54:50 George, Alex Gino

[55:30] Gracefully Grayson, Ami Polonsky

[58:00] Write Bloody Publishing

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Outro; "Bad Karma" by Ida Maria

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 go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous 
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Bookrageous Episode 82; Diversity in Books

Bookrageous Episode 81; Gamerageous
[show note links tk]
Intro Music; Gerudo Valley - Koji Kondo
What We’re Reading
- Write Bloody
Publishing
- Go Set A Watchman
- State of Play
- Undermajordomo
Minor
- It 

- Star Wars Dark
Disciple
- Heir to the Empire
(comic)
- Invisible Republic
- 7 SARAH DESSEN
BOOKS
- Along for the Ride
- Uncanny X Men
- Beginning of
Everything
- Me Earl and the
Dying Girl
- The Outsiders















- True Confessions
of Charlotte Doyle
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Intermission; Talk Dirty (To Me) - 8 Bit Universe
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- Hearthstone
- World of Warcraft
- The Sims
- Shovel Knight
- Mario Kart (new)
- Nidhogg
- Uncharted
- Tomb Raider
- Papers Please
- Westport
Independent
- Watch_Dogs
- The State of Play
- Rust
- Rust not pick
gender
- Fallout 4
- Fast
and the Furious 6
- Never Alone
- Mario Maker
-
Kieron Gillen new games journalism
- Level
One
- Penny
Arcade
- Scott
Pilgrim
-
Seconds
- Danny
O Dwyer (GameSpot)
-
Austin Walker (Giant Bomb)
- Phil
Kollar
- Leigh
Alexander
- Laura
Hudson
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Shadow of Mordor / Otherness
-
Clipping Through
-
Offworld
- Extra
Lives
- Super
Mario
-
Jacked
-
Console Wars
- Rise
of the Video Game Zinesters
- Boss
Fight Books
-
Yoshi's Island
-
Streets of Rage
-
Ocarina of Time
- Game
of Thrones
- Gone
Home
-
Tacoma
-
Eternal Darkness
-
Stanley Parable
- The
Last of Us
- Ready
Player One
-
Armada
-
Ender's Game
- The
Other Normal
- The
Infinity Ring
- 39
Clues
-
Minecraft
-
Ocarina of Time Manga
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Hyrule Historia
























































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King's Quest
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Outro; Gerudo Valley - Koji Kondo
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Bookrageous Episode 81; GAMERAGEOUS

Bookrageous Episode 80; Citizen

Intro Music; I'd Tell You But - Anti-Flag

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:00] Pym, Mat Johnson

[2:05] The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe (a real book!)

[2:25] Shadow Tag, Louise Erdrich

[3:15] Infinity Gauntlet #1, Dustin Weaver

Preeti

[5:58] A History of Glitter and Blood, Hannah Moskowitz

[8:13] The Scorpion Rules, Erin Bow

[11:15] Nightwing, Chuck Dixon and Scott McDaniel

Rahawa

[12:48] Every Kiss a War, Leesa Cross-Smith

[13:30] Rahawa’s Short Story of the Day on Twitter

[14:00] The Only Ones, Carola Dibbell

[15:30] Material, Ales Kot, Will Tempest

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Intermission; Dead End Alley - Bill Elm and Woody Jackson

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Citizen by Claudia Rankine

[23:10] 6 ways white supremacy takes its toll on Black people’s mental health, Salon, Terrell Jermaine Starr

[38:05] Is Serena Williams the Most Dominant American Athlete Today?, Bleacher Report, Merlisa Lawrence Corbett 

[40:00] ‘Hunger Games’ and Hollywood’s racial casting issue, CNN, Stephanie Goldberg

[41:30] Cameron Crowe Apologies for the Emma Stone Casting Fallout in Aloha, Vulture, Sean Fitz-Gerald

[41:40] Hollywood Diversity: Marvel Casting Tilda Swinton to Play Asian Man?, Breitbart, Kipp Jones

[47:30] Graywolf Press on Twitter

[49:00] PEN America 

[50:00] 2015 PEN World Voices Festival: Africa in Two Acts, PEN America YouTube


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Outro; I'd Tell You But - Anti-Flag

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Bookrageous Episode 80; Citizen by Claudia Rankine

Bookrageous Episode 79; Strong Female Characters

Intro Music; Ha Ha Ha by the Julie Ruin

What We’re Reading

Preeti

[1:30] One Man Guy, Michael Barakiva

[3:10] Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, Sara Farizan

[3:55] All the Bright Places, Jennifer Niven

[5:45] Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz

Jenn

[7:20] On Such a Full Sea, Chang-Rae Lee

[8:15] The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo, Cathy Hirano (Translator)

[10:15] The Vampire Tapestry, Suzie McKee Charnas; WORDs for Nerds

[11:45] The Cold Dish, Craig Johnson

[12:50] Hexed Vol. 1, Michael Alan Nelson, Dan Mora (July 7 2015)

Josh

[14:50] Last of the Sandwalkers, Jay Hosler (April 7 2015)

[17:30] I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend, Martin Short

[19:00] The Smartest Book in the World, Greg Proops

[20:30] The Riot Grrrl Collection, edited by Lisa Darms; The Punk Singer: A Film about Kathleen Hanna

Rebecca

[22:37] On Immunity, Eula Biss

[25:55] Quarantine, Rahul Mehta

[27:00] Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed, edited by Meghan Daum (March 31 2015)

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Intermission; They Meet from Ms Pac-Man (yes, the arcade game)

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Strong Female Characters

[30:15] I Hate Strong Female Characters, Sophia McDougall, New Statesman

[33:45] Jupiter Ascending

[35:55] Twilight, Stephenie Meyer

[36:40] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

[37:50] The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud

[39:35] Hausfrau, Jill Alexander Essbaum

[41:20] Not Here to Make Friends, Roxane Gay, BuzzFeed Books

[44:05] Tampa, Alyssa Nutting

[46:25] Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

[49:45] Rabbit novels, John Updike

[51:00] Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay

[53:00] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

[53:30] A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride (in paperback June 9 2015)

[55:05] Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories, Katherine Heiny

[57:00] Royal Wedding: A Princess Diaries Novel, Meg Cabot (June 2 2015)

[58:30] From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess, Meg Cabot (May 19 2015)

[1:03:00] We Need Diverse Books

[1:04:10] Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

[1:04:55] G. Willow Wilson and comics

[1:05:45] The Broad Inclusive Canvas of Comics, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic

[1:08:25] A Diverse, Gender-Swapped LOTR Recast, Book Riot

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Outdo; Ha Ha Ha by the Julie Ruin

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Bookrageous projects. We promise.


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Bookrageous Episode 68; Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball

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