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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss novels with interesting structures, queer YA, historical fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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The Brilliance Saga (Brilliance) by Marcus Sakey (rec’d by Carol)

The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism by Steve Kornacki; #Kornackithirst on Leslie Jones’s Twitter feed (rec’d by Kelly)

Milkman by Anna Burns

The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin (tw: graphic harm to children, institutionalized racism)

Huntress by Malinda Lo

Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel by A.W. Jantha

Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells

A Pale Light in the Black by KB Wagers

House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

The Kingston Cycle by CL Polk (Witchmark) (tw: violence against women & children, PTSD)

The Loyal League Series by Alyssa Cole (An Extraordinary Union) (tw: slavery)

The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee

Angel’s Blood by Nalini Singh

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (tw: domestic violence, harm to women & children, addiction)

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace (tw: child abuse)

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Once Upon A Time I Lived on Mars by Kate Greene.

This episode is sponsored by Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss books for garden inspiration, sci-fi for book club, Portrait of a Lady on Fire read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Penguin Teen, and A Drop of Midnight by Jason Diakité.

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Sarah Dunant: Birth of Venus, In The Company of the Courtesan, Sacred Hearts, Blood & Beauty, and In the Name of the Family (rec’d by Isabelle)

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked, edited by Sheila Black, Annabelle Hayse, and Michael Northen

The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham (tw: domestic abuse, alcoholism)

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (tw: domestic violence, self-harm)

All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry

Claire De Witt and the Bohemian Highway (#2 in series) by Sara Gran

Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older

The Chilling Effect series by Valerie Valdes

After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Valley Girls by Sarah Nicole Lemon.

This episode is sponsored by The Institute by Stephen King, now available in paperback from Gallery Books.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss superpowered characters, travel novels and nonfiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Care/of, and Sips by.

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Bird Box by Josh Malerman

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The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

A People’s History of the US by Howard Zinn

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh (tw: violence towards women and children including rape and domestic violence; terminated pregnancy; harm to animals)

Wonder Woman: Warbringer (that whole DC series also) by Leigh Bardugo

The Sidekick Squad by CB Lee (Not Your Sidekick)

An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie, transl. by James Kirkup

Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee (rec’d by Jaime Herndon)

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal (rec’d by Neha Patel) (cw: emotionally abusive home situation; difficulties with pregnancy; discussion of sex-selective abortion; assisted suicide; sexual harassment & misogyny)

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Fence by CS Pacat, Johanna the Mad, Joana La Fuente, and Jim Campbell

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams.

Trigger warnings: pet death, suicide 

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Amanda and Jenn discuss fantasy heists, novellas, historical fiction about Italy, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Book Trip, by C.J. Duarte, and Creatures by Crissy Van Meter, now in paperback from Algonquin Books.

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Alone by EJ Noyes, Mine by Georgia Beers, and The Secret of Sleepy Hollow by Andi Marquette (rec’d by Wynnde)

The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, Revised Edition by Karen Gordon (rec’d by Diane)

Want by Cindy Pon

Warcross by Marie Lu (tw: harm to children)

Two Old Women by Velma Wallis

The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette De Bodard (tw: PTSD, harm to women and children)

Renegades by Marissa Meyer

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (tw: graphic violence)

Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (tw: slavery)

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

The Vatican Princess by CW Gortner

Juliet by Ann Fortier (rec’d by Jess Pryde)

How to Be Danish by Patrick Kingsley

Incarceration Nations by Baz Dreisinger

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