Amanda and Jenn discuss Dune read-alikes, books about motherhood, guides to witchcraft, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (rec’d by Carol)

Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan and The Bamboo Stalk by Saud Alsanousi (rec’d by Jenny)

Books Discussed

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu (cw: mention of suicide)

Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples 

The Celestial Trilogy (A Spark of White Fire #1) by Sangu Mandanna

How to Stop Losing Your Shit with Your Kids by Carla Naumburg

Guidebook to Relative Strangers by Camille T. Dungy

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The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (tw: racism)

When The Tiger Came Down the Mountain (Singing Hills Cycle #2) by Nghi Vo

Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells

Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark (cw: discussion of suicide)

Modern Tarot by Michelle Tea

Witches of America by Alex Mar

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Basic Witches by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck (cw: body horror)

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