Amanda and Jenn discuss non-boring literary fiction, books set in Jamaica, unreliable narrators, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (rec’d by Ericka)

Books Discussed

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins

Earthsinger Chronicles by L. Penelope (#1 Song of Blood and Stone)

Sacred Hunt (Hunter’s Oath) & Sun Sword series by Michelle West (rec’d by Liberty)

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson (cw: death by suicide, addiction, child neglect, racism and racial violence against Native peoples)

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn (tw homophobia)

Augustown by Kei Miller (cw via StoryGraph: polite brutality, racial violence)

Summer and Bird by Katherine Catmull

The Fairyland series (Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland) by Cat Valente (cw: mention of child abuse)

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (rec’d by Jess)

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