Amanda and Jenn recommend hard sci-fi, darkly humorous fiction, personal finance books, and more on this week’s Get Booked!

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Books Discussed

The Fever by Megan Abbott

The Stand by Stephen King

Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante

Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Jessica Jones: Alias Vol 1 by Brian Michael Bendis

Out by Natsuo Kirino

Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, trans by Ken Liu

Time Salvagers by Wesley Chu

The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ

The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee

I’ll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin

“not Murakami” picks from Episode 38

The Birth of Korean Cool by Euny Hong

The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim

The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey

Get a Financial Life by Beth Kobliner

I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi

The Perfect Balance by Hannah McQueen

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