Amanda and Jenn discuss the Singularity, Russian nonfiction, and novels about platonic friendships in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Books Discussed

Katie Macbride’s post: Required Reading for Understanding WTF Is Happening In Russia

Molly Wetta’s post!: A Russian History Reading List

Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Bela Shayevich

The Man Without a Face by Masha Gessen

Pushkin’s Children by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambell

The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky, translated by Tim Mohr

The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill

I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

Modern Lovers by Emma Straub

Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku (rec’d by Kristen)

To Be a Machine by Mark O’Connell

Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling

Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon-Silko

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Anything by Louise Erdrich (Plague of Doves)

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (with caveat)

When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen

Jackaby series by William Ritter

Words in the Air, edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton

Ausma Zehanat Khan’s Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty series (The Unquiet Dead)

How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford

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