Amanda and Jenn discuss middle-grade read-alouds, atmospheric novels, snarky narrators, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey by Özge Samanci (rec’d by Jan)

Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen (rec’d by Sibyl)

Anthony Horowitz’s the Susan Ryeland series (first book: Magpie Murders) and the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries (first book: The Word is Murder) (rec’d by Ann)

Books Discussed

Fairest by Meredith Talusan (tw: racism)

Sorted by Jackson Bird

Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

Where The Mountain Meets The Moon by Grace Lin

Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison

The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, transl. by Anne McLean

Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (tw: rape & other violence towards women, harm to children including death, panic attacks & PTSD)

Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O’Keefe

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne

The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak

Suicide Prevention Lifeline: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ 

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel (tw: suicide attempts)

Please Like Me S2, particularly Episode 7

Post: https://bookriot.com/6-novels-featuring-mental-illness-world-suicide-prevention-day/

Borderline by Mishell Baker

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