Amanda and Jenn discuss place-based narratives, women breaking barriers, and books set in Vancouver in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by Carina Press, publisher of Rough and Tumble by Rhenna Morgan.

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Books Discussed

Rabbit Ears by Maggie De Vries (recommended by Brenna)

The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland (recommended by Brenna)

How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir by Amber Dawn

Better Living Through Plastic Explosives by Zsuzsi Gartner

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (“On Marriage”)

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (for example, this quote)

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed (particularly Like An Iron Bell)

I Married You For Happiness by Lily Tuck

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Negroland by Margo Jefferson

The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley

Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade

Home by Toni Morrison

We Were Soldiers Once and Young by Harold G. Moore and Joseph Galloway

The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

Rejected Princesses by Jason Porath

Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science by Rachel Swaby

Sally Ride by Lynn Sherr (recommended by Swapna)

Girl at War by Sara Novic

Kody Keplinger (DUFF, Run)

The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked edited by Sheila Black, Michael Northen, Annabelle Hayse

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis

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