Amanda and Jenn discuss emotionally devastating fiction, entertaining history, Old Hollywood, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Tweet Cute and When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord (rec’d by Lauren)

Read Between The Lines by Rachel Lacey (rec’d by Kady)

Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee (rec’d by Cara W.)

Books Discussed

Leap of Faith by Queen Noor

The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, transl by Stephen Snyder 

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (cw: child abuse, sexual assualt, transphobia)

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

Music Is History by Ahmir Questlove Thompson with Ben Greenman

Tana French, In the Woods (cw: harm to children)

Edna O’Brien, Saints and Sinners

Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (tw violence against women, harm to children)

The Poppy War series by R.F. Kuang (cw: all of them) 

The Masquerade series by Seth Dickinson (also all the CW)

Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo, out May 10 (cw: gore, coercion) A

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

The I Survived Series

Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love for children’s library

The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon

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