Amanda and Jenn discuss dark fiction, humorous SF/F, women breaking down barriers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Books Discussed

An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James

The Deepest Blue by Sarah Beth Durst

Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker

Documentary: SOMM

Shoot Like a Girl by Mary Jennings Hegar (tw: sexual assault, family abuse, misogyny)

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Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, transl by Nancy Forest-Flier (TW: child abuse, violence)

White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (tw: disordered eating, self-harm)

Frida Kahlo and her Animalitos by Monica Brown

Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, transl. by Lisa Dillman

Under My Hijab by Hena Khan, illustrated by Aaliya Jaleel

The Faithful Scribe by Shahan Mufti

The Parasol Protectorate series (Soulless #1) by Gail Carriger

Unraveling by Karen Lord

Pit Bull by Bronwen Dickey (tw: animal abuse)

The River of Doubt by Candice Millard

The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

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