Amanda and Jenn discuss Civil War reads, diverse middle-grade books, reading slumps, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Books Discussed

Wolf-speaker (Immortals #2) by Tamora Pierce

Get in Trouble by Kelly Link

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil

Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea

Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi

The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue (the review on Book Riot)

The Pioneer Woman by Ree Drummond

Take the Lead by Alexis Daria

The Passing of the Armies by Joshua Chamberlain

Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson (rec’d by Ta-Nehisi Coates)

The Bloodprint by Ausma Zehanat Khan

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

No Good Deed by Kara Connolly

Seeds of America trilogy (Chains #1) by Laurie Halse Anderson

My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead

27 Hours by Tristina Wright

Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham

Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin

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