Amanda and Jenn discuss fall books, science & technology history, novels about cults, and more on this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Books Discussed

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Pandemic by Sonia Shah

Grunt by Mary Roach

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

Girls From Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe (recommended by Rachel Fershleiser)

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (recommended by Rachel Fershleiser)

Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu

Arcadia by Lauren Groff

The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Galante

Post on Cult Hits: 5 YAs To Satisfy Your Kimmy Schmidt Cravings by Sona Charaipotra

The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte, trans. Sonia Soto

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury

The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger

Oye What I’m Gonna Tell You by Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés

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