Amanda and Jenn recommend short stories on audiobook, poetry collections for beginners, and more on this week’s Get Booked.

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Books Discussed!

North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud

Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman

Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

Tor.com Collection: Season 1

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

Billy Collins

Dispatch from the Future by Leigh Stein

Life on Mars by Tracy K Smith

The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman

A Good American by Alex George

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson

The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

The Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi

The Faithful Scribe by Shahan Mufti

Body Where I Was Born by Guadalupe Nettel, J.T. Lichtenstein (Translation)

Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera,  Lisa Dillman (Translation)

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, translated by Thomas and Carol Christensen

The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden

The Vegetarian by Han Kang Deborah Smith (Translator)

Re Jane by Patricia Park

Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin, Kim Chi-Young (Translator)

Jade Lady Burning by Martin Limon

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