Amanda and Jenn discuss character-driven sci-fi, non-Western fantasy, escapist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by The Storybound Podcast, Saga Press, publishers of speculative fiction like Stephen Graham Jones’ THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS, Rebecca Roanhorse’s BLACK SUN, and more, and Care/of.

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Stepping Stone by Karin Kallmaker

Strawberry Summer by Melissa Brayden

Too Close to Touch by Georgia Beers

Just Jorie by Robin Alexander

(rec’d by Wynnde)

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Baron (rec’d by Lauren)

Books Discussed

The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh (tw: rape, murder, child abuse)

Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess (tw: assault, bigotry, separation from a child)

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (tw: violence against children, sexual assault, eugenics)

Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp, as rec’d by Waubgeshig Rice (Recommended) (tw: child abuse)

Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

The Chilling Effect and Prime Deceptions by Valerie Valdes

Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai (tw: abusive parent, panic attacks)

Shades of Magic series by VE Schwab

The Books of Ambha (Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash) by Tasha Suri

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik (tw: racism, fatphobia)

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