Amanda and Jenn discuss contemporary virgin heroines, dinner book-clubs, autumnal and/or spooky reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke (rec’d by Laura)

Goldy Bear series (Catering To Nobody) by Diane Mott Davidson, Sloan Krause series by Ellie Alexander (rec’d by Suzanne)

Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton (rec’d by Carol)

For keeping up with favorite authors: Fantastic Fiction (rec’d by Jennifer)

Futhermore by Tahereh Mafi (rec’d by Rachael)

Theatrical by Maggie Harcourt (rec’d by Zara)

Books Discussed

Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey 

A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole (cw: emotionally abusive parent)

Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

How To Be A Movie Star by TJ Klune

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha (tw: extreme, violent bullying)

Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover (cw: on-page violence related to war)

Zone One by Colson Whitehead

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Cordova

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Work For It by Talia Hibbert (rec’d by Jess Pryde, cw: severe depression and mental health issues)

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur (cw: child abuse and domestic violence, racism including use of slurs)

Hold Me by Courtney Milan (tw: mentions of suicide)

Teach Me by Olivia Dade

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