Amanda and Jenn recommend horror, Nancy Drew read-a-likes for grownups, and more on this week’s Get Booked.

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Books Discussed!

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due

Horror episode!

Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

Hexed by Michael Alan Nelson

Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers and Marla Frazee

Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match by Monica Brown and Sara Palacios

Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins

The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex

Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt de la Pena

Sabriel by Garth Nix

The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley

Ausma Zehanat Khan’s mystery series

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

Read Harder Video

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan, Annie Tucker

The Sea Is Our: Tales of Southeast Asia Steampunk

On a Red Station Drifting by Aliette de Bodard

Diversity in YA

Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn 

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

All American Boys by Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds

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