Amanda and Jenn discuss rich people problems, pregnant protagonists, book-slump busters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound by Grant Lawrence

Books Discussed

My Own Devices by Dessa (out Sept. 8)

Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich (WIT: http://biblibio.blogspot.com/)

Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran

Versailles by Kathryn Davis

Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea, translated by Marilyn Booth

People Like Us by Dominick Dunne (his Recommended episode)

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (26 hours, have fun!)

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner (audio rec’d by Nita Basu, 11 hours), trigger warning for suicidal ideation

Heartless by Gail Carriger

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

The Wangs vs. The World by Jade Chang

Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Poppy War by RF Kuang (tw: war crimes, rape, mandated sterilization, child abuse)

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