Amanda and Jenn discuss October reads, books set in India, angry female characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Here We Are by Graham Swift and Birchwood by John Banville (rec’d by Cat)

Books Discussed

All the Murmuring Bones by AG Slatter (tw: incest, child abuse)

The Library of the Dead by TL Huchu (cw: harm to children, racist policing incident)

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (tw: harm to children)

Books Set in India post: https://bookriot.com/books-set-in-india/

The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi (cw: intimate partner violence, infertility & miscarriage) 

The Merry Spinster by Daniel M. Lavery (may be listed under Mallory Ortberg)

Firebreak by Nicole Horner-Stace

White Oleander by Janet Fitch (tw: child abuse, suicide)

Educated by Tara Westover (cw: child abuse)

Elizabeth Gaskell

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Son by Phillipp Meyer (tw: torture, harm to children)

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich (cw: harm to pregnant women)

In the Garden of Spite by Camilla Bruce (tw: domestic violence, miscarriage)

They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzel Hall (cw: reference to teenage suicide, racism, cyber bullying, disordered eating, and others)

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