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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.

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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

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Amanda and Jenn discuss stories about male friendship, arranged marriages, paranormal mysteries, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith (rec’d by Stephanie)

A Thousand Acres (1991) by Jane Smiley (content advisory for child abuse, including off-page sexual abuse) (rec’d by Gina)

Books Discussed

The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss

And Only To Deceive (Lady Emily Ashton series) by Tasha Alexander

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (tw: racism, sexual abuse)

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (cw: homophobia, antisemitism)

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (cw: ableism)

A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain

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Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel Jose Older

Here is a post of books about houses that are alive!

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Fen by Daisy Johnson

Two Old Women by Velma Wallis

How Much Of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang

Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

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Amanda and Jenn discuss place-based narratives, women breaking barriers, and books set in Vancouver in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by Carina Press, publisher of Rough and Tumble by Rhenna Morgan.

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Books Discussed

Rabbit Ears by Maggie De Vries (recommended by Brenna)

The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland (recommended by Brenna)

How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir by Amber Dawn

Better Living Through Plastic Explosives by Zsuzsi Gartner

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (“On Marriage”)

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (for example, this quote)

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed (particularly Like An Iron Bell)

I Married You For Happiness by Lily Tuck

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Negroland by Margo Jefferson

The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley

Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade

Home by Toni Morrison

We Were Soldiers Once and Young by Harold G. Moore and Joseph Galloway

The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

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Welcome to Episode 8, all about holiday gift giving recommendations! I brought Jenn Northington back to be my guest host for this one because she’s a book recommendation MACHINE, I tell you. Jenn is our Events Director here at Book Riot, cohost of the Bookrageous podcast, part-time bookseller at Word, and member of five book groups. Find her on Twitter @jennIRL.

This episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and DK’s Holiday Gift Generator.

For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.

Books Discussed on the Show!

Penguin Drop Caps or the Clothbound Coralie Bickford-Smith collection

Peter Sis’s illustration of The Conference of the Birds

The Graphic Canon

Stiff by Mary Roach

The Skeleton Crew by Deborah Halber

K Blows Top by Peter Carlson

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Louise Erdrich’s Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

A Good American by Alex George

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Georgette Heyer

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice series by Laurie R. King

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Wallbanger by Alice Clayton

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Longbourn by Jo Baker

The Martian by Andy Weir

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Never Surrender (new Churchill bio) by John Kelly

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighters’ Struggle for Freedom in W.W. I and Equality at Home by Peter N Nelson

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Into the Blizzard by Michael Winter

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Amanda and Jenn discuss memoirs by trans men, audiobooks for kids, some fantasy and dystopia, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by The History of Literature – A Podcast, Skyhunter by Marie Lu, and Care/of.

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Practical Magic trilogy by Alice Hoffman and Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (rec’d by Sibyl)

The Harwood Spellbook series by Stephanie Burgis, starting with Snowspelled (rec’d by Laura)

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson (rec’d by Jennifer)

Changing Our Mind by David Gushee (rec’d by Jessica)

Books Discussed

Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortbery / Daniel M. Lavery

Sorted by Jackson Bird

Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee (tw: child molestation, mugging, transphobia, PTSD & disassociation)

Soulless by Gail Carriger

The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall

Want by Cindy Pon

Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi

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The City We Became by NK Jemisin

Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole (