Get Booked

Amanda and Jenn discuss YA with no romance, classics worth picking up, escapist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by The Storybound Podcast, The Mason House, available now from Lanternfish Press, and Skyhunter by Marie Lu, with Fierce Reads.

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The Pirate Cruncher by Johnny Duddle and anything by Isabella Bird (rec’d by Mel)

Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner (rec’d by Tirzah)

Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee 

1984 by George Orwell (tw: torture)

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (tw: all the bad things happen y’all — rape, harm to children, etc)

The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

The Switch by Beth O’Leary

Swordspoint and Tremontaine by Ellen Kushner, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Malinda Lo, etc.

American Indian Stories by Zitkála Sá

The Destroy Series in Uncanny Magazine and Lightspeed Magazine

Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

Into the Planet by Jill Heinerth

2AM at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (tw: racism, prejudice within minority communities)

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso.

This episode is sponsored by See Her Die by Melinda Leigh.

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Amanda and Jenn look back on five years of recommendations and whether or not they would still recommend old favorites in this special 250th episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by The Storybound Podcast, White Fox by Sara Faring, with Fierce Reads, and Penguin Teen.

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Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee

Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple

Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu

Milkman by Anna Burns

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

The Wangs Vs. The World by Jade Chang

Acacia: The War With the Mein by David Anthony Durham

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole

Infomocracy by Malka Older

Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Physical Disobedience by Sarah Hays Coomer.

This episode is sponsored by Norton Young Readers, publishers of Bearmouth, by Liz Hyder, winner of the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize for Older Readers.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss graphic novels for kids, wanderlust reads, grown characters in fantasy, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by The History of Literature – A Podcast, Traitor by Amanda McCrina with Fierce Reads, and Flatiron Books, publisher of The Insomniacs by Marit Weisenberg.

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Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search if God in America by Jeff Chu, Unclobber by Colby Martin, and One Coin Found (rec’d by Amy)

Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays vs. Christians Debate by Justin Lee (rec’d by Jessica) 

Border by Kapka Kassabova

The Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian, rec’d by Aram

Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff

Little Witch Academia by Yoh Yoshinari, Keisuke Sato, Trigger

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Things Hoped For by Chencia C. Higgins

Grumpy Monkey by Suzanne Lang, illus. by Max Lang

The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad and S.K. Ali, illustrated by Hatem Aly

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

Travels With Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn

The Wolf of Oren–Yaro by KS Villoso

Tea With the Black Dragon by R.A. MacAvoy

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

The Magical Language of Others by EJ Koh (tw: suicidal thoughts and attempts, disordered eating, domestic violence, sexual assault, depression)

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.

This episode is sponsored by Size Zero by Abigail Mangin.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss memoirs by trans men, audiobooks for kids, some fantasy and dystopia, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by The History of Literature – A Podcast, Skyhunter by Marie Lu, and Care/of.

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Practical Magic trilogy by Alice Hoffman and Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (rec’d by Sibyl)

The Harwood Spellbook series by Stephanie Burgis, starting with Snowspelled (rec’d by Laura)

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson (rec’d by Jennifer)

Changing Our Mind by David Gushee (rec’d by Jessica)

Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortbery / Daniel M. Lavery

Sorted by Jackson Bird

Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee (tw: child molestation, mugging, transphobia, PTSD & disassociation)

Soulless by Gail Carriger

The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall

Want by Cindy Pon

Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi

Hey YA Episode: On YA “Boy Books” And Driving In The Midwest

The City We Became by NK Jemisin

Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole (When No One Is Watching)

Princess in Black by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, illustrated by LeUyen Pham

Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace 

Dear Martin by Nic Stone 

A Boy And His Dog at the End of the World by CA Fletcher (cw: reference to suicide, harm to animals, reference to rape, use of gender reveal as a plot point)

Like a Mother by Angela Garbes

From the Hips by Rebecca Odes and Ceridwen Morris (rec’d by Jaime)

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