Get Booked

Amanda and Jenn discuss books about being non-binary, Maggie Nelson comps, historical fiction about real women, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s novels A Kind of Freedom and The Revisioners (rec’d by Sibyl)

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (C/a for physical / emotional abuse of minors) and Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (rec’d by Gina)

The Moon Within by Aida Salazar

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, illustrated by Phoebe Kobabe

The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles

The Remaking of Corbin Wale by Roan Parrish (cw: bullying, ableism)

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, transl. by Ginny Tapley Takemori

Hold Me by Courtney Milan

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Blow Your House Down by Gina Frangello (tw violence against women)

White Magic by Elissa Washuta (cw: intimate partner violence, PTSD, ableism, racism, disordered drug use)

Matrix by Lauren Groff

Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble (cw: death of animals)

Llama Llama Nighty Night by Anna Dewdney

Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Clock Star Rose Spine by Fran Wilde.

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado.

Trigger warnings for this title include: human trafficking, rape, sexual abuse of children, domestic violence.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss books for a retired dad who is basically Jimmy Buffett, books never mentioned on the show before, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Float Plan by Trish Doller and Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton (rec’d by Amanda)

Ellie Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan is Killing It and the sequel Finlay Donovan Knocks Em Dead (rec’d by Alice)

The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich

Tidesong by Wendy Xu 

Apartment Gardening by Amy Pennington and Kate Bingaman-Burt

All New Square Foot Gardening 3rd Edition by Mel Bartholemew et al

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Psalm for the Wild–Built by Becky Chambers

Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller (cw: domestic abuse)

Waiting for Tomorrow by Natacha Appanah, transl by Geoffrey Strachan

The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae, Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Sheree Renée Thomas (cw: transphobia; unjust incarceration; racism; homophobia) (out April 19)

The Girl Meets Duke series by Tessa Dare (#1 The Duchess Deal)

Jeannie Lin

A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie

The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends If The Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss a couple book club options, Ukrainian fiction, books to break a reading slump, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft by Tom Griffiths (rec’d by Laura)

Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko, transl by Julia Meitov Hersey 

Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk (also we have several great posts about this)

The Silence of Bones by June Hur

The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He (cw: intimate partner violence, sort of)

Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman

A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (cw: violent homophobia)

The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

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

Over The Top by Jonathan Van Ness (cw: child abuse, self-destructive behavior, disordered drug use)

Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss books set in the Caribbean, low-stakes fun, blind dates with sci-fi, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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The Backup by Erica Kudisch (rec’d by April)

American Pop by Snowden Wright (rec’d by Tori)

The Love Songs of WEB Dubois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (rec’d by Siobhan)

Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of Montecello, Morgan Jerkins’s Wandering in Strange Lands, and Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (rec’d by Gina)

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Machinehood by S.B. Divya (cw: death of a child, unwanted pregnancy)

His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie

The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard (cw: racial violence and slurs, harm to children)

Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto

Heroine Complex series by Sarah Kuhn

When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka

Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby (cw: violence against women and children) (rec’d by Annika)

Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim (tw rape, ethnic war)

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite

Dominicana by Angie Cruz (tw domestic violence)

When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, my new obsession (out March 15 but i don’t care)

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss romantic power dynamics, Only Murders in the Building read-alikes, the Amish, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles (rec’d by Stephanie)

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (rec’d by Aida)

The Watchmaker of Filigree St. by Natasha Pulley (rec’d by Kelly)

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten, transl. by Marlaine Delargy

Plain Secrets by Joe Mackall

When the English Fall by David Williams (rec’d by Margaret)

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco but also just read Witchmark

Dead Djinn Universe books by P. Djeli Clark

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

London Steampunk by Bec McMaster

Midnight Bargain by CL Polk

Iron Widow by (tw: rape) Xiran Jay Zhao

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin (cw: sexual assault, enslavement and coercion)

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Poppy War by RF Kuang (cw: BASICALLY EVERYTHING)

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