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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by Donna Freitas.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss nostalgia reads, sapphic fantasy, nature writing, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili (TW: war, addiction, loss of a pregnancy, violence and Nazis) (rec’d by Cat)

The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland (tw: child abuse)

Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper

The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo

The Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson (cw: child abuse, addiction)

Witchmark by CL Polk

Vivid by Beverly Jenkins (cw: racism)

The Tiger’s Daughter by K Arsenault Rivera

The Unbroken by C.L. Clark (cw: abuses of the colonial variety)

The Home Place by J Drew Lanham 

World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo

A Pale Light in the Black by KB Wagers (cw: emotionally abusive parents)

Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman

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Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller (cw: suicidal thoughts; subject of book is a white supremacist, and it is discussed), rec’d by Danika

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss their favorite books and reading stats from 2021, and their goals for 2022 in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Cultish by Amanda Montell

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Matrix by Lauren Groff

Jenn’s SFF picks: the Holiday Gifting episode & Year End Favorite episode of SFF Yeah!

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

The Girl With Stars In Her Eyes by Xio Axelrod

Believers by Lisa Wells

Decoding Despacito by Leila Cobo

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed

Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

The Conductors by Nicole Glover

The Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thomas

The Dead Djinn Universe series by P. Djeli Clark

Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall

What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Middlemarch by George Eliot.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss queer book club picks, courtroom dramas, romance fantasy, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Seraphina’s Lament by Sarah Chorn (rec’d by Jen Zink)

The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc

Northern Light by Kazim Ali (cw: discussion of suicide)

The Night Swim by Megan Goldin (tw: sexual assault)

A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight (rec’d by Jamie)

Death by Dumpling by Viven Chien

Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (cw: harm to children, racism and racial slurs)

Sam Wu is Not Afraid series by Katie and Kevin Tsang, Nathan Reed Illustrator (Sam Wu is Not Afraid of Ghosts)

Rutabaga the Adventure Chef by Eric Colossal

The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (cw: emotional abuse)

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Payback’s A Witch by Lana Harper 

The Summoner series by Taran Matharu (The Novice)

Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Sweat Equity by Jason Kelly.

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Amanda and Jenn give some holiday gifting recs, immersive historical fiction, thrillers for book club, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin (cw: antisemitism, harm to children) 

Pushout by Monique W. Morris

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (cw: racism)

The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo

Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh (Sea of Poppies #1)

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (tw: sexual assault, mental illness, self-harm)

So Lucky by Nicola Griffith

The Lost Man by Jane Harper (tw: domestic violence, sexual assault)

Lady Sherlock (A Study in Scarlet Women #1) by Sherry Thomas

Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman

We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen (cw: ableist language around mental health)

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Intimacies by Katie Kitamura.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss Dune read-alikes, books about motherhood, guides to witchcraft, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (rec’d by Carol)

Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan and The Bamboo Stalk by Saud Alsanousi (rec’d by Jenny)

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu (cw: mention of suicide)

Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples 

The Celestial Trilogy (A Spark of White Fire #1) by Sangu Mandanna

How to Stop Losing Your Shit with Your Kids by Carla Naumburg

Guidebook to Relative Strangers by Camille T. Dungy

Post: Great Books About Motherhood

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (tw: racism)

When The Tiger Came Down the Mountain (Singing Hills Cycle #2) by Nghi Vo

Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells

Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark (cw: discussion of suicide)

Modern Tarot by Michelle Tea

Witches of America by Alex Mar

Post: Books For Beginner Witches 

Basic Witches by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck (cw: body horror)

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