Amanda and Jenn recommend fairy tales for grown-ups, examinations of marriage (with rage-filled lady protagonists), and more on this week’s Get Booked.

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Books Discussed!

Where’d You Go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple

Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

Gemma Bovary by Posy Simmonds

Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel by Anya Ulinich

Jem and the Holograms Vol. 1: Showtime

Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust, translated by Kim Thompson

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Think of England by KJ Charles

Edinburgh by Alexander Chee, trigger warning for child molestation

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Cat Valente

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Get in Trouble by Kelly Link

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.S. Duffy

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

I Married You For Happiness by Lily Tuck

The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman

Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (trigger warning for domestic violence)

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