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February 11, 2021 Found Family That Kind of Wants to Kill Each Other
Amanda and Jenn discuss poetry audiobooks like Lana Del Rey’s, heartwarming reads, mythology and war, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.
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Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman (tw: for sexual assault and miscarriage) (rec’d by Margot)
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig (rec’d by Rose?)
Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology, edited by Ann Vandermeer (rec’d by Stephanie)
Books Discussed
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock (cw: so much violence and gore and weirdness)
The Dime by Kathleen Kent
The Longmire series by Craig Johnson (Cold Dish)
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Behold The Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells (disclosure: they write our SFF newsletter)
Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi
Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
Brimstone by Cherie Priest (tw: scenes of war)
Antigoddess by Kendare Blake (Goddess War #1)
I would leave me if I could by Halsey
At Blackwater Pond by Mary Oliver

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44 min
February 11, 2021 Found Family That Kind of Wants to Kill Each Other
Amanda and Jenn discuss poetry audiobooks like Lana Del Rey’s, heartwarming reads, mythology and war, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.
42 min
February 08, 2021 The Handsell: February 8, 2021
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Wintering by Katherine May.
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7 min
February 04, 2021 Labor Leader For Lizards
Amanda and Jenn discuss the War of 1812, Muslim middle-grade reads, classics by women, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.
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Books Discussed
1812: The War that Forged a Nation by Walter R. Borneman
Images of America: Prince George’s County, Maryland by Katharine D. Bryant and Donna L. Schneider
Prince George’s County, Maryland (Black America Series)
Girl Meets Duke series by Tessa Dare (The Duchess Deal)
The Brothers Sinister series by Courtney Milan (The Duchess War)
The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi
More to the Story by Hena Khan
Shepherd by Catherine Jinks (tw: many many many harms to animals)
The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak 1)
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (tw: torture)
A More Unbending Battle by Peter Nelson
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
The Living Is Easy by Dorothy West
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Atlas of Unknowns by Tania James

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40 min
February 04, 2021 Labor Leader For Lizards
Amanda and Jenn discuss the War of 1812, Muslim middle-grade reads, classics by women, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.
37 min
February 01, 2021 The Handsell: February 1, 2021
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat.
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7 min
January 28, 2021 Biggest Queen Energy
Amanda and Jenn discuss romances WITH pining, some great picture books, uplifting and escapist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.
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Mythos, Heroes, or Troy by Stephen Fry (rec’d by Alice)
Books Discussed
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (tw: child abuse)
All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (cw: sexual assault, death of animals)
First Laugh: Welcome Baby by Rose Ann Tahe, Nancy Bo Flood, Jonathan Nelson
Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao by Kat Zhang and Charlene Chua
Island of the Sea Women by Lisa See
The Man With the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi, translated by Darryl Sterk (cw: suicidal ideation, loss of a child)
Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai
How To Catch A Queen by Alyssa Cole (cw: description of panic and anxiety attacks)
The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by CM Waggoner
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward (tw: suicide)
Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
American Hippo by Sarah Gailey

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42 min
January 28, 2021 Biggest Queen Energy
Amanda and Jenn discuss romances WITH pining, some great picture books, uplifting and escapist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.
39 min
January 22, 2021 The Handsell: January 25, 2021
This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends God Land by Lyz Lenz.
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8 min
January 21, 2021 Big Shelob Energy
Amanda and Jenn discuss cozy murders, no pining, ending our productivity obsession, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.
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Bunheads by Sophie Flack (rec’d by Caroline)
My Casting Couch was too Short by Marion Dougherty (rec’d by Wynnde)
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, The Inheritance Trilogy by NK Jemisin, and The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie (rec’d by Cari)
Books Discussed
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
A Separation by Katie Kitamura
Off Base by Annabeth Albert (tw: homophobia)
40-Love by Olivia Dade (cw: mention of fatphobia)
Murder at the Grand Raj Palace by Vaseem Khan
Proper English by KJ Charles (cw: homophobia, racism)
How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Can’t Even by Anne Helen Petersen
A People’s Future of the United States, edited by Victor LaValle
Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu (cw: suicide)
Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee
Each Of Us A Desert by Mark Oshiro (cw: abusive parents, graphic violence)
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day by Winifred Watson (cw: casual racism & misogyny)

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46 min