Amanda and Jenn recommend audiobooks, light reading for dark times, and more on this week’s Get Booked!

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Books Discussed!

Split by Suzanne Finnamore

Yes Please by Amy Poehler (on audio!)

The essay in Tiny Beautiful Things

When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams

The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling

Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes, read by the author

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini, read by the author, recommended by Brenna Clarke Gray

Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Goodreads Author), Lola Rogers (Translator)

Happy are the Happy by Yasmina Reza, translated by John Cullen

Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord 

Yes, Chef: A Memoir by Marcus Samuelsson

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie 

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken

The Inheritance Trilogy by NK Jemisin

Old Man’s War series series by John Scalzi

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