Jenn and Amanda recommend nature writing, travel narratives, queer horror, and more on this week’s Get Booked!

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Books Discussed!

The Martian by Andy Weir

Lady Killer by Joelle Jones and Jamie S. Rich

The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales

Sex Criminals Volume 1: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky

Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins

The Boilerplate Rhino by David Quammen

An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie, transl by James Kirkup

Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere by Andre Aciman

Murder in the Marais by Cara Black

Zone by Mathias Enard, translated by Charlotte Mandell

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig (rec’d by Liberty)

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford – see also, Liberty

Incarceration Nations by Baz Dreisinger

Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello

Out by Natsuo Kirino, trans Stephen Snyder

Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (Danika)

Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam

Queers Destroy Horror, Nightmare Magazine

Lambda Literary, 6 of the Scariest Queer Horror Books Ever

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean

Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

Unveiled by Courtney Milan

Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh

Nobody’s Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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