Amanda and Jenn discuss good “relationship reads,” Asian authors, classic retellings, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Books Discussed

Upstream by Mary Oliver

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Startup by Doree Shafrir (rec’d by Rebecca)

Chemistry by Weike Wang (tw: family emotional abuse)

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

How Long Til Black Future Month by NK Jemisin

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (tw: rape, gendered violence)

On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee (narrated by BD Wong)

The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner

Witchmark by CL Polk

The Good Women of China by Xinran, trans. By Esther Tyldesley

The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya, translated by Asa Yoneda (tw: body horror)

Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies

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