Amanda and Jenn recommend books to read after college, what to read to fill the void left by The Night Circus, and more. This episode is sponsored by Jakob’s Colors by Lindsay Hawdon and the Book Riot Store.

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Books Discussed

Adulting by Kelly Williams Brown

Getting Things Done by David Allen

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag by Jolie Kerr

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

The Quick by Lauren Owen

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord

Moods by Yoel Hoffmann (transl. Peter Cole)

Nowhere to be Found by Bae Suah (transl. Sora Kim-Russell)

Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin (New Directions Pearls)

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Art of the Novella, Melville House)

Tor.com’s Novella series

Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series

Dawn by Octavia Butler

Who Fears Death? by Nnedi Okorafor

The Keltiad by Patricia Kenneally (out of print/hard to find but worth it)

Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin

Turbulence by Samit Basu

When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds

Complicit by Stephanie Keuhn

First Second: Gene Luen Yang, Dave Roman, Jorge Aguirre, MK Reed

Barry Lyga, James Dashner, Scott Westerfeld

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Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Poisoned Apples by Christine Heppermann

Me, My Hair, and I, edited by Elizabeth Benedict

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

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