Amanda and Jenn discuss non-human narrators, stories about ladies doing it for themselves, books set in Japan, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Stoner by John Williams, Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones and Sing Unburied Sing, Montana 1948 by Larry Watson, and My Antonia by Willa Cather (rec’d by Elizabeth)

Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, White Palace by Glenn Savan (rec’d by Wynnde)

Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, and The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (rec’d by Cate)

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K Hamilton (rec’d by Kelly)

Books Discussed

Spinster by Kate Bolick

Finding Freedom by Erin French (cw: addiction, domestic abuse, harm to animals)

Shinju by Laura Joh Rowland

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba, Vol. 1 by Koyoharu Gotouge with John Werry (Translator), Stan!, Adam Grano, Mike Montesa, John Hunt (cw: harm to children, mostly off-screen)

Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

When Aidan Became A Brother by Kyle Lukoff, Kaylani Juanita

The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner

The Unspoken Name by AK Larkwood

A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (cw: harm to children, graphic violence)

Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey (tw: rape, harm to children)

The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka (Roxane Weary #1) (cw: violence against women and minors including rape, kidnapping, imprisonment)

The Deep by Rivers Solomon (tw: slavery)

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton (narrated by a crow and also a cow and a polar bear, dogs and cats and sparrows)

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