Amanda and Jenn discuss communism in books, horror short-stories, veterinary memoirs, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked!

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Books Discussed

The Princess in Black by Shannon Hale

Olivia the Pig series by Ian Falconer

When You’re Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads by Barbara Luke and Tamara Eberlein

Feminist picture book post by Brandi

Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers, Marla Frazee

Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright

Communism: A Very Short Introduction by Leslie Holmes

Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990 by Vaclav Havel, transl. Paul Wilson

If Wishes Were Horses by Loretta Gage

Appointments at the Ends of the World by William Karesh

The Boilerplate Rhino by David Quammen

Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin

Ghost Summer by Tananarave Due

North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron

Queers Destroy Horror

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood

A Passage to India by EM Forster

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

America Day By Day by Simone de Beauvoir

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