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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Sentence by Louise Erdrich.

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Jenn and guest Charity Yoro give poetry recs, holiday gift picks, Erik Larson comps, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Daughters of Fire by Tom Peek

Kaui Hart Hemmings and Kawai Strong Washburn 

This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

The Black Count by Tom Reiss 

Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (CW: sex, drugs, rock-n-roll content)

Anne Carson (An Autobiography of Red)

Carmen Maria Machado (In the Dream House, cw: domestic abuse)

Ocean Vuong (On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous)

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Londoners by Craig Taylor

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other)

Kraken by China Mieville

You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened by Arisa White

Directed by Desire by June Jordan 

Autostraddle post: https://www.autostraddle.com/read-a-fcking-book-ten-lesbian-bisexual-poets-34457/

The Witch Boy series by Molly Knox Ostertag 

Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow

One Hundred Days by Alice Pung (cw: emotional and physical abuse)

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad.

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Matrix by Lauren Groff.

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Amanda and Jenn give their picks for various gifting requests in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Year of Wonders : a Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks and Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin (rec’d by Amanda)

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (cw: sexual assault, domestic violence)

Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (cw: pregnancy complications, body horror)

The Expanse by James S.A. Corey

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett 

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (cw: violence against women and children, racism, alcoholism)

Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins

Caffeinated by Murray Carpenter

Krampus by Brom

Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey

Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby (tw: racism)

They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzel Hall (so many cw’s y’all)

Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley

The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson (cw: addiction, mental illness, suicide, mention of child abuse)

Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh

Here’s a great post: https://bookriot.com/horror-books-for-middle-school/

Tales From The Hinterlands by Melissa Albert, per Sharifah’s rec on SFF Yeah

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss a bunch of different book group recs, books about caregiving, modern novels for classics lovers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Inflamed by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel (rec’d by Heather)

Of Echoes Born by ‘Nathan Burgoine, House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland, Alone by EJ Noyes, Nottingham and Thorn by Anna Burke (rec’d by Wynnde)

Pine by Francine Toon (rec’d by Georgia)

The Soul of Care by Arthur Kleinman

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Out by Natsuo Kirino, transl. by Stephen Snyder (tw: sexual assault, domestic violence/abuse, also very murdery)

Blake or the Huts of America by Martin R. Delaney (cw: slavery & related violence) h/t Nisi Shawl’s Black Speculative Fiction reading list

Matrix by Lauren Groff

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor

Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza 

A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (tw: suicide)

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Cordova

The Evangelicals by Frances FitzGerald

Blessed by Kate Bowler

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

Who Is Vera Kelly by Rosalie Knecht (cw: child abuse, homophobia, antisemitism)

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Swan Dive by Georgina Pazcoguin.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss thrillers and historical mysteries, moving with kids, read-alouds about socks in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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How to Be a Family by Dan Kois

The Telling Room by Michael Paterniti

The Guest List by Lucy Foley (tw: sexual assault, extreme bullying)

My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh (cw: alcoholism, child abuse, rape, disordered eating)

A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (rec’d by Cassie)

Dangerous Women by Hope Adams

Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March (cw: references to suicide, mention of rape and harm to children)

She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

The Golden Thread by Ravi Somaiya

Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott

Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts

My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead

Books & Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich

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This week, Jenn discusses Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko.

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