Amanda and Jenn discuss books about mother-daughter relationships, climate change primers, engaging audiobooks, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian, new in paperback from Algonquin Books, and Book Riot Insiders.

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Daevabad Trilogy (City of Brass #1) by S.A. Chakraborty, Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, and City of Spires series (City of Strife #1) (rec’d by Eric)

Books

Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin

The Magical Language of Others by EJ Koh (tw: suicidal thoughts and attempts, disordered eating, domestic violence, sexual assault, depression)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (trigger warnings: child abuse)

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

Climate Changed by Philippe Squarzoni

NW by Zadie Smith

Brick Lane by Monica Ali (tw: domestic violence)

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (tw: slavery)

Book of Night Women by Marlon James, narrated by Robin Miles (tw: slavery & related violence)

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (rec’d by Jamie Canaves)

How To Be a Movie Star by TJ Klune (tw: suicidal thoughts, depression, anxiety)

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Tentacle by Rita Indiana, translated by Achy Obejas (tw: sexual assault, transphobia, homophobia, use of slurs, racism)

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