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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore.

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Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore (cw: PTSD, violent harm to women and children (and men, just everyone), rape, self-harm, suicide)

Graceling, Fire, and Winterkeep

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Amanda and Jenn discuss genre-benders, hopeful visions of the future, overlooked literary fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud and Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (rec’d by Kelly)

Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

SFF Yeah episode on Genre-Blenders

That Inevitable Victorian Thing by EK Johnston

The Feminist Utopia Project, edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff

Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg

The Mason House by T. Marie Bertineau (tw: domestic violence, alcoholism)

The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix (Sabriel, Lireal)

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (tw: rape, racism, racial slurs)

America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo (tw political torture)

My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki (tw: child abuse, domestic violence, lots of weird dark stuff that i can’t remember precisely)

Dead in the Garden by Dahlia Donovan (tw: racism, ableism, homophobia)

Death at Breakfast by Beth Gutcheon (tw: suicide, drug abuse, child abduction, fatphobia)

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

The Half-God of Rainfall by Innua Ellams (tw: rape on the page)

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss novels about ballerinas, career advice for the average Jane, gay vampires, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese (rec’d by Rebecca)

Ann Patchett (rec’d by Wynnde)

The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith

His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie (rec’d by Gina)

Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead

Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipoitra and Dhonielle Clayton

June by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Carrie Fisher (Postcards from the Edge, Princess Diarist)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh (tw: self-harm, suicide, sexual assault, disordered eating)

Can’t Even by Anne Helen Peterson

Ask A Manager by Alison Green

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim

The Noble Hustle by Colson Whitehead

The Switch by Beth O’Leary

Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey (Book One: Kushiel’s Dart)

The Dreamblood Duology by NK Jemisin (tw: violence and abuse towards women and children, sexual assault)

Everafter by Nell Stark and Trinity Tam

Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Basic Witches by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss WWII historical fiction, soft boys in fiction, themes for reading in 2021, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien

Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole (cw: laced drink) 

Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

The Summoner series by Taran Matharu

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi (tw: violent anti-Semitism; racism; child abuse)

The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung (tw: rape)

The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar (tw: sexual assault, violence towards refugees)

How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee (tw: rape)

Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie

The Killing Moon by NK Jemisin (tw: harm to children)

January, Learn Something New in 2021: read some memoirs, We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib (tw: racism)

Theme: Novellas, The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

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