Amanda and Jenn discuss several geographically specific reads, COVID art, memories in sci-fi, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.

Feedback

This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila (rec’d by Carol)

Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody (rec’d by Laura)

A Painted House by John Grisham, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (rec’d by Suzanne)

Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings (rec’d by Rachel)

Good Enough to Eat by Jae and Alison Gray, CW: it deals with real addiction and alcoholism (rec’d by Rose)

The Library of Legends by Janie Chang (rec’d by Susan)

Books Discussed

Alabama: The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

Utah: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (cw: homophobia)

Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera, transl Lisa Dillman

The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea (tw: rape, child abuse)

The Premonition by Michael Lewis

Together, Apart, by Erin A. Craig, Jennifer Yen, et al

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon (tw: harm to children)

The Blue Fox by Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb

Cheese and Culture by Paul Kindstedt

Edible by Daniella Martin

The Deep by Rivers Solomon, et al

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

The Chimes by Anna Smaill

The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee (cw: death of a child)

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices