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As we conclude the 7-year-long (!) experiment that has been Get Booked, Jenn takes a moment to look back and share some numbers! MOST RECOMMENDED AUTHORS: Kate Atkinson Jade Chang Yaa Gyasi RF Kuang CL Polk Sarah McCarry Celeste Ng Check out our other podcasts at bookriot.com/listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, “That Charcuterie Chick” Olivia Carney recommends a a summer fav, a cookbook, and one from the top of her TBR. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED The Art of the Board by Olivia Carney Book Lovers by Emily Henry Half Baked Harvest by Tieghan Gerard Gouda Friends by Cathy Yardley Find Olivia Carney on Instagram and TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jenn and Vanessa discuss scary books, stories about friendships, LGBTQ+ resources, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For a full list of questions, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. FEEDBACK The Paper Chase by John Jay Osborn Jr. Common Goal by Rachel Reid BOOKS DISCUSSED The Black Phone by Joe Hill  Ju-On by Kei Ohishi Seeing Gender by Iris Gottlieb Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría Hudes (cw: animal death, mentions of disordered eating, child abuse, and addiction) Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth (cw: child abuse, slavery, child death, intimate partner violence) How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz (cw: homophobia, partner abuse) Witches of New York by Ami McKay (cw: witch-hunt related violence) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, author and influencer Danielle Prescod talks about three of her recent favorite reads. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED: Token Black Girl by Danielle Prescod Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski (and Burnout) Tanqueray by Stephanie Johnson with Brandon Stanton Find Danielle on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, The Kiss Curse author Erin Sterling (a.k.a. Rachel Hawkins) recommends some spooky reads as we dream of Fall. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED: The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling (The Ex Hex) The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen BOOKS MENTIONED: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Lana Harper (The Witches of Thistle Grove) Ann Aguirre (Fix-It Witches) Not Your Average Hot Guy and Mr and Mrs Witch by Gwenda Bond Not the Witch You Wed by April Asher My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine (June 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, human rights laywer and author Julian Aguon recommends some of the books that have helped him during the pandemic. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED: No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies by Julian Aguon Sharks In the Time of Saviors by Kawaii Strong Washburn How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit The Red Deal by the Red Nation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jenn and Danika continue fine-tuning Human vs. Algorithm, with recs for Stranger Things read-alikes, law school (kind of), queer Berlin, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For a complete list of the questions discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed (rec’d by Cassie) Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston  The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean Buffalo Is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, debut author Carolyn Huynh recommends three books about the lives of women, each with their own angle. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huyhn The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang The Vegetarian by Han Kang The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin Find her online at Twitter and Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, You’re Invited author Amanda Jayatissa recommends three recent thrillers she could not put down. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED You’re Invited by Amanda Jayatissa Things We Do In The Dark by Jennifer Hillier The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead Someone Else’s Life by Lyn Liao Butler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jenn and Erica dive into the first-ever Human vs. Algorithm, looking for recs for romance, comfort reads, Queen’s Gambit read-alikes, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of the questions discussed in this episode, visit our website. BOOKS DISCUSSED A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria The Lucky Escape by Laura Jane Williams Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (cw: mention of child abuse, assault, transphobia, and racism) Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya Jada Jones: Rock Star by Kelly Starling Lyons and Vanessa Brantley-Newton Wedgie & Gizmo by Suzanne Selfors, illustrated by Barbara Fisinger The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach (he/him) (cw: gore, body horror, institutionalized homophobia) Stolen Focus by Johann Hari Murderbot by Martha Wells Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology by Vince A. Liaguno, Rena Mason Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Spider-Man’s Social Dilemma author Preeti Chhibber recommends some of her favorite comics! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Spider-Man’s Social Dilemma by Preeti Chhibber Spidey Vol. 1: First Day (Robbie Thompson / Nick Bradshaw) Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal (G. Willow Wilson, Sana Amanat, Adrian Alphona) Green Lantern: Legacy (Minh Lê/Andie Tong) Drawn Together, Minh Le & Dan Santat DC vs Vampires Vol. 1 (James Tynion IV, Matthew Rosenberg, Otto Schmidt) Avengers Assembly by Preeti Chhibber Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jenn and special guest and librarian Emily Pullen dig into reading recommendation algorithms, how they work (and don’t work), and what it means for our Get Booked experiment in this bonus episode. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. LINKS AND BOOKS NoveList StoryGraph Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil What We Do We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart Solito by Javier Zamora Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jenn and Vanessa announce an exciting experiment and ponder the evolution of the Get Booked feed in this Very Special Episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Life’s Work by Willie Parker. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss Amanda’s new job (!), Murakami read-alikes, the perfect plane read, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. FEEDBACK Molly Harper’s Bluegrass Series (rec’d by another Amanda) Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell (rec’d by Tanelle) Books Discussed What’s Left of Me is Yours by Stephanie Scott (tw: violence against women) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid The Change by Kirsten Miller (tw: childhood sex abuse, obvious references to the Epstein/Maxwell case) Light Years From Home by Mike Chen (cw: dementia, loss of a parent) Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark Everfair by Nisi Shawl (cw: graphic violence and war crimes, racism) Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward (tw: suicide) House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild Haldol and Hyacinths by Melody Moezzi (tw: suicide attempts) For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag Post: Books Like Heartstopper Fence by C.S. Pacat, Johanna the Mad, Joana LaFuente, and Jim Campbell For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn give some recommendations for AAPI Heritage Month in this week’s special themed episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Fill out our listener survey and be entered to win a $50 gift card to the indie bookstore of your choice! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo (out in July 2022) Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang (tw: racially motivated violence) IQ by Joe Ide The Verifiers by Jane Pek (cw: discussion of suicide) The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez (cw: child abuse) Intimacies by Katie Kitamura Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao (tw: child abuse) Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden (tw: addiction) Sonali Dev’s The Rajes series (cw: lots of trauma and angst) Gearbreakers & Godslayers (out June 28) by Zoe Hana Mikuta Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport(cw: violence against women and children incl. rape and abuse, racial slurs, violent racism, and basically everything else you can think of) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Open by Rachel Krantz. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss complicated relationships, summer books, shocking twists, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Fill out our listener survey and be entered to win a $50 gift card to the indie bookstore of your choice! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Feedback Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall (rec’d by Mel) Prosperity series by Alexis Hall (Jenn cannot believe she forgot!) Books Discussed Serena Singh Flips the Script by Sonya Lalli (tw domestic violence) Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (cw: alcohol abuse) The Guncle by Steven Rowley Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers (cw: anxiety) The Guest List by Lucy Foley (tw extreme bullying) The Old Woman With the Knife by Gu Byeong-Mo with Chi-Young Kim (cw: harm to women and children, death of an animal) The Expatriates by Janice YK Lee We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (cw: animal death, harm to children) The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (cw: sooooo much body horror and gore) Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar (cw: harm to children, sexual assault) The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black (The Cruel Prince) A post! Books Like A Court of Thorns and Roses Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr (cw: drug use, coercion, probably things I don’t remember) For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss actionable activism, romances with elves, unrequited love, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Fill out our listener survey and be entered to win a $50 gift card to an indie bookstore! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Feedback Night Boat to Tangier and That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry; The Heart’s Invisible Furies and Shuggie Bain (rec’d by Elizabeth) Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World and A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon (rec’d by Amber) The Guest List by Lucy Foley (rec’d by Becky) Books Discussed In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (tw: domestic abuse) Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons by Marilyn Hacker (sample poem) Uptown Thief by Aya de Leon Travelers Along The Way by Aminah Mae Safi Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim (tw: rape) Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood  Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju Bonus TV rec: Our Beloved Summer on Netflix side character, from Jamie Geekerella by Ashley Poston  The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad Elvish by SG Prince Witchmark by CL Polk (cw: PTSD, harm to women and children) For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss spies in romance, books like Our Flag Means Death, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. FEEDBACK Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Alison Pataki, and By Any Other Name by Lauren Kate BOOKS DISCUSSED American Marriage by Tayari Jones (tw: sexual assault, racism) The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson (cw: drug use, sexual assault, violence, racism) Books Like “Our Flag Means Death”: https://bookriot.com/our-flag-means-death-books/ On a Lee Shore by Elin Gregory In Deeper Waters by FT Lukens Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov, Scott Duane, et al The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (tw: child sexual abuse, human trafficking) Always Only You by Chloe Liese Gamechanger by LX Beckett (they/them) American War by Omar El Akkad Veronica Speedwell series by Deanna Raybourn Sarah MacLean’s Bareknuckle Bastards series Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé (cw: lynching, child abuse, sexual abuse) Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews Alyssa Cole’s Loyal League series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse. Content warnings: harm to children, graphic violence Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jenn and guest Kelly Jensen discuss books about moving on, animal narrators, colors in fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Feedback Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade (rec’d by Sophie, seconded by Ariel, and thirded by Elizabeth) Books Discussed Joyful by Ingried Fetell Lee Light Years From Home by Mike Chen (cw: dementia in a parent, loss of a parent) Charlotte Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro Library of the Dead by TL Huchu (cw: harm to children, racist policing) The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa Post: https://bookriot.com/cats-in-japanese-fiction/ BEASTARS by Paru Itagaki The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu O Beautiful by Jung Yun Hell of a Book by Jason Mott The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan (cw death by suicide) A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass (cw: death of a pet) For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss emotionally devastating fiction, entertaining history, Old Hollywood, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Feedback 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 For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Velvet Was The Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss books for dealing with homophobia, novels from around the world, and a variety of cozy reads in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Feedback The Mercy Thompson Series by Patricia Brigg for this and also any Charlaine Harris supernatural series (The Sookie Stackhouse series; Midnight, Texas; Grave series) (rec’d by Julie) The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews and Love and Saffron by Kim Fay (rec’d by Amanda) Books Discussed Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawab Judith Butler Interview regarding feminism and transphobia (and a follow-up) Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers The Immortals of Tehran by Alireza Taheri Araghi (TW suicide) Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (cw: slavery and related violences) Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (tw graphic harm to children, suicide) The Cutting Season by Attica Locke (cw: violence against women and children) The Man with the Poison Gun by Serhii Plokhy The She-Devil in the Mirror by Horacio Castellanos Moya, rec’d by Vanessa Diaz From Duke Till Dawn by Eva Leigh The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris (cw: gory violence, mention of rape) This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide. Trigger warnings: childhood sexual abuse, lynching Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss books about being non-binary, Maggie Nelson comps, historical fiction about real women, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Feedback Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s novels A Kind of Freedom and The Revisioners (rec’d by Sibyl) The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (C/a for physical / emotional abuse of minors) and Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (rec’d by Gina) Books Discussed The Moon Within by Aida Salazar Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, illustrated by Phoebe Kobabe The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles The Remaking of Corbin Wale by Roan Parrish (cw: bullying, ableism) Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, transl. by Ginny Tapley Takemori Hold Me by Courtney Milan Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Blow Your House Down by Gina Frangello (tw violence against women) White Magic by Elissa Washuta (cw: intimate partner violence, PTSD, ableism, racism, disordered drug use) Matrix by Lauren Groff Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble (cw: death of animals) Llama Llama Nighty Night by Anna Dewdney Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Clock Star Rose Spine by Fran Wilde. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado. Trigger warnings for this title include: human trafficking, rape, sexual abuse of children, domestic violence. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss books for a retired dad who is basically Jimmy Buffett, books never mentioned on the show before, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Feedback Float Plan by Trish Doller and Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton (rec’d by Amanda) Ellie Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan is Killing It and the sequel Finlay Donovan Knocks Em Dead (rec’d by Alice) Books Discussed The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich Tidesong by Wendy Xu  Apartment Gardening by Amy Pennington and Kate Bingaman-Burt All New Square Foot Gardening 3rd Edition by Mel Bartholemew et al The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Psalm for the Wild–Built by Becky Chambers Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller (cw: domestic abuse) Waiting for Tomorrow by Natacha Appanah, transl by Geoffrey Strachan The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae, Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Sheree Renée Thomas (cw: transphobia; unjust incarceration; racism; homophobia) (out April 19) The Girl Meets Duke series by Tessa Dare (#1 The Duchess Deal) Jeannie Lin A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends If The Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss a couple book club options, Ukrainian fiction, books to break a reading slump, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft by Tom Griffiths (rec’d by Laura) Books Discussed Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko, transl by Julia Meitov Hersey  Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk (also we have several great posts about this) The Silence of Bones by June Hur The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He (cw: intimate partner violence, sort of) Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston Ammonite by Nicola Griffith Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (cw: violent homophobia) The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (tw childhood sexual abuse, human trafficking) Over The Top by Jonathan Van Ness (cw: child abuse, self-destructive behavior, disordered drug use) Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss books set in the Caribbean, low-stakes fun, blind dates with sci-fi, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback The Backup by Erica Kudisch (rec’d by April) American Pop by Snowden Wright (rec’d by Tori) The Love Songs of WEB Dubois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (rec’d by Siobhan) Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of Montecello, Morgan Jerkins’s Wandering in Strange Lands, and Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (rec’d by Gina) Books Discussed The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling Machinehood by S.B. Divya (cw: death of a child, unwanted pregnancy) His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard (cw: racial violence and slurs, harm to children) Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto Heroine Complex series by Sarah Kuhn When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby (cw: violence against women and children) (rec’d by Annika) Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim (tw rape, ethnic war) When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite Dominicana by Angie Cruz (tw domestic violence) When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, my new obsession (out March 15 but i don’t care) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss romantic power dynamics, Only Murders in the Building read-alikes, the Amish, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles (rec’d by Stephanie) The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (rec’d by Aida) The Watchmaker of Filigree St. by Natasha Pulley (rec’d by Kelly) Books Discussed The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten, transl. by Marlaine Delargy Plain Secrets by Joe Mackall When the English Fall by David Williams (rec’d by Margaret) The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco but also just read Witchmark Dead Djinn Universe books by P. Djeli Clark The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey London Steampunk by Bec McMaster Midnight Bargain by CL Polk Iron Widow by (tw: rape) Xiran Jay Zhao The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin (cw: sexual assault, enslavement and coercion) Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas Poppy War by RF Kuang (cw: BASICALLY EVERYTHING) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Eve out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss multi-generational family stories, realistic small towns, queer international horror, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead (rec’d by Laura) The Mickey Rawlings mystery series by Troy Soos (rec’d by Suzanne) We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry (rec’d by Alicia)  Joe Harris, the Moon by Joyce A. Miller (rec’d by Marilyn) Books Discussed Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden Subpar Parks by Amber Share Jawbone by Mónica Odeja, transl. by Sarah Booker A Small Charred Face by Kazuki Sakuraba, transl. by Jocelyne Allen Weather by Jenny Offill Incarceration Nation by Baz Dreisinger The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (tw racism, domestic abuse) The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (cw: child death, addiction, domestic abuse, homophobia) Women and Power by Mary Beard A Tiger in the Kitchen by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy Invisible Library series by Genevieve Cogman The Reader by Traci Chee (cw: violent harm to children) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss a bunch of great queer reads, give book picks inspired by “Burn, Butcher, Burn” (IYKYK), and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed Girl Serpent Thorn by Melissa Barshardoust (rec’d Margaret) The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by CM Waggoner (cw: drug use, addiction, & drug related morally gray choices) Tentacle by Rita Indiana, transl. by Achy Obejas The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (cw: rape, racial slurs, racism, harm to children) From Scratch by Tembi Locke The Book of Delights by Ross Gay The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud Burning Roses by SL Huang (cw: animal death, child abuse) Next Year, For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson Weekend by Jane Eaton Hamilton (cw: racism, transphobia, infertility and miscarriage, intimate partner violence, death by suicide, ableism, hospitalization for chronic illness, deadnaming) Luster by Raven Leilani Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas (cw: bullying, disordered eating, harm to children) Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie We Set The Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Saving Us by Katharine Hayhoe. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss baseball in fiction, women in music, “histo-tainment”, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback The Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King (rec’d by Kate) Books Discussed The Body Where I Was Born by Guadalupe Nettel, transl. by JT Lichtenstein The Girl With Stars in Her Eyes by Xio Axelrod Dead in the Garden by Dahlia Donovan LGBTQ+ Mystery Post  Criminal Gold by Ann Aptaker Beauty Queens by Libba Bray Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (cw: harm to animals, gore)  Shelter by Jung Yun (tw domestic violence, sexual assault) The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang (cw: speculated harm to animals) Lumberjanes: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters, Brooklyn Allen, Maarta Laiho, Aubrey Aiese Goldie Vance by Hope Larson, Brittney Williams, and Sarah Stern Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Diamond Ruby by Joseph Wallace Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss war stories, the Cold War, wealthy women, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee (rec’d by Amanda) The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (rec’d by Annie)  The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey (rec’d by Elizabeth) Books Discussed You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe What It is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes Honey, Olive, Octopus by Christopher Bakken Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki, transl. by Karen Van Dyck (rec’d by Rebecca Hussey) The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch The Gilded Wolves series by Roshani Chokshi (cw: ableism, antisemitism, racism) House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild (rec’d by Cassie) Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu (cw: homophobia) Girl at War by Sara Novic (tw ethnic violence, lots and lots (and lots) of harm to children) Everfair by Nisi Shawl (cw: harm to children, racism and racial violence) American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson John Le Carre Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (cw: harm to children, violent homophobia, animal abuse, rape) A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel Versailles by Kathryn Davis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder and Markus Juslin. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss books about artists, nature, boundaries, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback The Secret of Snow by Viola Shipman and Who is Maude Dixon by Alexandra Andrews (rec’d by Amanda) Real Life by Brandon Taylor and In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (rec’d by Elizabeth) Books Discussed The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton Conjure Women by Afia Atakora (cw: slavery & related violence, complications in pregnancy, rape) Shepherd by Catherine Jinks (tw: bad things happening to animals) Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (cw: discussion of suicide, child abuse, and rape; on-page drug use) Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble (tw: suicide, harm to animals) Once Upon A River by Bonnie Jo Campbell (cw: rape, addiction, violence against women & children) Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab Alyssa Cole’s How To Find A Princess and A Prince on Paper Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel The Archivist Wasp Saga by Nicole Kornher-Stace What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt The Great Man by Kate Christensen The Fossil Hunter by Shelley Emling Everyday Ubuntu by Mungi Ngomane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices