Amanda and Jenn discuss books about ghosts, secret societies, folklore, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by Blind Date With a Book, Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz, now available from Algonquin Books, and All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg.

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Last of the Wine by Mary Renault, and really anything by her (rec’d by Scarlett)

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (rec’d by Scarlett)

Julian by Gore Vidal (rec’d by Scarlett)

The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George (rec’d by Scarlett)

Books Discussed

Bossypants by Tina Fey

If I Understood You Would I Have This Look On My Face by Alan Alda (plus, Clear+Vivid podcast)

Love Lives Here by Amanda Jette Knox (rec’d by Jess)

Sorted by Jackson Bird

She’s Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan

Wayward Children series (Every Heart a Doorway #1) by Seanan McGuire

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (tw: self-harm, family violence)

The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand

The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

The Spellbook of Katrina Von Tassel by Alyssa Palombo

The Rook by Daniel O’Malley (tw: graphic violence)

Mãn by Kim Thuy, translated by Sheila Fischman

Revenge by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder (tw: body horror, graphic violence)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth (tw: homophobia)

The Magnolia Sword by Sherry Thomas

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