Amanda and Sharifah discuss heartbreaking YA, real-life heist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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For horror westerns: In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson, Hunger by Alma Katsu (rec’d by Emily)

Books Discussed

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (TW gun violence)

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan (TW suicide)

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages

The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi (contributor)

Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi

An Englishman in Madrid by Eduardo Mendoza, trans Nick Caistor

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paolo Coelho

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan

Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint

Jade City by Fonda Lee

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

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