Amanda and Jenn discuss actionable activism, romances with elves, unrequited love, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Night Boat to Tangier and That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry; The Heart’s Invisible Furies and Shuggie Bain (rec’d by Elizabeth)

Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World and A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon (rec’d by Amber)

The Guest List by Lucy Foley (rec’d by Becky)

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (tw: domestic abuse)

Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons by Marilyn Hacker (sample poem)

Uptown Thief by Aya de Leon

Travelers Along The Way by Aminah Mae Safi

Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim (tw: rape)

Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones

It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood 

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju

Bonus TV rec: Our Beloved Summer on Netflix side character, from Jamie

Geekerella by Ashley Poston 

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad

Elvish by SG Prince

Witchmark by CL Polk (cw: PTSD, harm to women and children)

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss spies in romance, books like Our Flag Means Death, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Alison Pataki, and By Any Other Name by Lauren Kate

American Marriage by Tayari Jones (tw: sexual assault, racism)

The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson (cw: drug use, sexual assault, violence, racism)

Books Like “Our Flag Means Death”: https://bookriot.com/our-flag-means-death-books/

On a Lee Shore by Elin Gregory

In Deeper Waters by FT Lukens

Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov, Scott Duane, et al

The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta

In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (tw: child sexual abuse, human trafficking)

Always Only You by Chloe Liese

Gamechanger by LX Beckett (they/them)

American War by Omar El Akkad

Veronica Speedwell series by Deanna Raybourn

Sarah MacLean’s Bareknuckle Bastards series

Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé (cw: lynching, child abuse, sexual abuse)

Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews

Alyssa Cole’s Loyal League series

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse.

Content warnings: harm to children, graphic violence

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Jenn and guest Kelly Jensen discuss books about moving on, animal narrators, colors in fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade (rec’d by Sophie, seconded by Ariel, and thirded by Elizabeth)

Joyful by Ingried Fetell Lee

Light Years From Home by Mike Chen (cw: dementia in a parent, loss of a parent)

Charlotte Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro

Library of the Dead by TL Huchu (cw: harm to children, racist policing)

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa

Post: https://bookriot.com/cats-in-japanese-fiction/

BEASTARS by Paru Itagaki

The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown

Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith

Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani

Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu

O Beautiful by Jung Yun

Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan (cw death by suicide)

A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass (cw: death of a pet)

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss emotionally devastating fiction, entertaining history, Old Hollywood, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Tweet Cute and When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord (rec’d by Lauren)

Read Between The Lines by Rachel Lacey (rec’d by Kady)

Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee (rec’d by Cara W.)

Leap of Faith by Queen Noor

The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, transl by Stephen Snyder 

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (cw: child abuse, sexual assualt, transphobia)

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

Music Is History by Ahmir Questlove Thompson with Ben Greenman

Tana French, In the Woods (cw: harm to children)

Edna O’Brien, Saints and Sinners

Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (tw violence against women, harm to children)

The Poppy War series by R.F. Kuang (cw: all of them) 

The Masquerade series by Seth Dickinson (also all the CW)

Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo, out May 10 (cw: gore, coercion) A

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

The I Survived Series

Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love for children’s library

The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Velvet Was The Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss books for dealing with homophobia, novels from around the world, and a variety of cozy reads in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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The Mercy Thompson Series by Patricia Brigg for this and also any Charlaine Harris supernatural series (The Sookie Stackhouse series; Midnight, Texas; Grave series) (rec’d by Julie)

The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews and Love and Saffron by Kim Fay (rec’d by Amanda)

Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawab

Judith Butler Interview regarding feminism and transphobia (and a follow-up)

Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

The Immortals of Tehran by Alireza Taheri Araghi (TW suicide)

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (cw: slavery and related violences)

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (tw graphic harm to children, suicide)

The Cutting Season by Attica Locke (cw: violence against women and children)

The Man with the Poison Gun by Serhii Plokhy

The She-Devil in the Mirror by Horacio Castellanos Moya, rec’d by Vanessa Diaz

From Duke Till Dawn by Eva Leigh

The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan

Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins

An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris (cw: gory violence, mention of rape)

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide.

Trigger warnings: childhood sexual abuse, lynching

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