Amanda and Jenn discuss Iranian literature, light-hearted reads, favorite picture books, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Books Discussed

I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin

The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts (tw: suicide)

Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai (tw: abusive parent)

Shepherd by Catherine Jinks (tw: harm to children and, like, every animal possible)

The Broken Earth Trilogy (The Fifth Season #1) by NK Jemisin (tw: so much harm to children, forced breeding)

The Immortals of Tehran by Alireza Taheri Araghi (tw: suicide)

Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover

Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi

Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara (tw: harm to children)

Want by Cindy Pon

The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland (tw: child abuse)

Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik (tw: racism, religious intolerance, internalized fat-shaming)

Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima

Thank You, Octopus by Darren Farrell

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