Amanda and Jenn discuss mysteries, adoption reading, parenting memoirs, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked!

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Books Discussed

My Life in France by Julia Child

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub

Voracious by Cara Nicoletti

7 by Jen Hatmaker

Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott

Holy Is the Day by Carolyn Weber (recommended by Kate Scott)

Jesus As Mother by Caroline Walker Bynum (recommended by Kristen McQuinn)

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Livia Day, Cafe La Femme series (A Trifle Dead)

Attica Locke, Jay Porter series (Black Water Rising)

After Birth by Elisa Albert

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins

Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos

In On It by Elisabeth O’Toole

The Interracial Adoption Option by Marlene Gail Fine

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

Oxygen by Carol Cassella

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