Amanda and Jenn discuss genre novels about older characters, read-alikes for Ted Lasso, and wanderlust in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil (rec’d by Jeff)

Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan (rec’d by Linda)

Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage and Manners by Therese O’Neill and The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way by Bill Bryson (rec’d by Angie)

Books Discussed

Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather

Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (cw: racial violence)

Feeding the Monster by Seth Mnookin

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

Follow Your Arrow by Jessica Verdi (rec’d by Danika)

Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee

A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #1)

Dead in the Garden by Dalia Donovan

Check, Please!: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu (with thanks to Smexy Books) 

Window Seat by Aminatta Forna (comes out May 18)

The Outrun by Amy Liptrot (tw: mental illness, suicidal ideation, sexual assault)

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