Jenn and guest Vanessa Diaz discuss Portuguese novels, ghost stories, unreliable narrators, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by The Devil’s Thief by Lisa Maxwell and Flight or Fright, edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent.

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Books Discussed:

Mech Cadet Yu by Greg Pak, art by Takeshi Miyazawa

Improvement by Joan Silber

Everything’s Trash, But It’s Ok by Phoebe Robinson

Blindness by Jose Saramago (tw: sexual assault, violence, rape)

The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry

My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due (tw: racial violence, rape, harm to children)

Affinity by Sarah Waters (tw: mention of suicide)

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante

Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall

Borderline by Mishell Baker (tw: self harm, suicide)

(Don’t) Call Me Crazy edited by Kelly Jensen

Long Division by Kiese Laymon

The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte

Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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