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In this bonus episode of Recommended, producer Jenn Northington takes us through the numbers of the past five seasons.
BOOKS & AUTHORS DISCUSSED
Samantha Irby
Jeanette Winterson
Ursula Le Guin (Changing Planes, The Left Hand of Darkness)
Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)
Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith)
Dominick Dunne (People Like Us, An Inconvenient Woman)
Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre, Villette)
Octavia Butler (Wild Seed, Lilith’s Brood, Parable of the Sower)
Alexandre Dumas (Three Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo)
Sonali Dev
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Zen Cho
Becky Chambers
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Recommended By The Numbers

In this episode, Wendy Xu recommends Claudia Gray and Tommy Pico recommends A.R. Ammons.
This episode is sponsored by Lanternfish Press and HMH.
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A transcript of this episode is available here.
BOOKS DISCUSSED
Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker
Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray
Lost Stars by Claudia Gray
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Pluto by Naoki Urasawa
Feed by Tommy Pico
Tape for the Turn of the Year by A.R. Ammons
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Wendy Xu and Tommy Pico

In this episode, Jeanette Winterson recommends Virginia Woolf and Nafiza Azad recommends Shailja Patel.
This episode is sponsored by Lerner Books and Wednesday Books.
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A transcript of this episode is available here.
BOOKS DISCUSSED
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad
Migritude by Shailja Patel
Fatima Asghar
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Jeanette Winterson and Nafiza Azad

In this episode, Garth Nix recommends Alexandre Dumas and Silvia Moreno-Garcia recommends Charles Williams.
This episode is sponsored by OwlCrate Jr, a subscription box for middle grade readers, and Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu, with Fierce Reads.
You can subscribe to Recommended in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or in your podcast player of choice. The show can also be found on Stitcher.
A transcript of this episode is available here.
BOOKS DISCUSSED
Angel Mage by Garth Nix
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, translated and abridged by Lowell Bair
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Hot Spot, a.k.a. Hell Hath No Fury, by Charles Williams
Dead Calm by Charles Williams
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Garth Nix and Silvia Moreno-Garcia

In this episode, Jami Attenberg recommends Patti Smith and Valerie Valdes recommends Diana Wynne Jones.
This episode is sponsored by The Dark Lord Clementine by Sarah Jean Horwitz, new from Algonquin Young Readers, and William Morrow Paperbacks.
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A transcript of this episode is available here.
BOOKS DISCUSSED
All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
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