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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

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🗓️ 13 July 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn recommend fun books for hard times, under the radar novels, and more in this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by EveryLibrary and Harper Paperbacks, publishers of Erika Johansen’s bestselling Queen of the Tearling trilogy. 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 The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Citizen by Claudia Rankine I Shall Be Near to You by Erin Lindsay McCabe The Rogue Pirate’s Bride by Shana Galen Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson The Lightning Thief by Percy Jackson Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol 1 by Ryan North and Erica Henderson The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht The Girl From the Garden by Parnaz Foroutan The Fireman by Joe Hill The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel Anything by China Miéville (either The City and the City or Three Moments of an Explosion) Man by Kim Thuy, translated by Sheila Fischman Great by Sara Benincasa The Voice of the River by Melanie Rae Thon How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	AI is incredible. They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem, pirate style.
0:07.0	But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts.
0:14.0	It knows your schedule. It can turn a brainstorm into a brief and it doesn't need to be taught.
0:20.0	Because Slackbot isn't just another
0:22.4	AI. It's AI that knows your work as well as you do. Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot
0:28.8	to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:34.6	This is episode 37 and we're recording on Tuesday, July 12th.
0:37.7	I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:41.9	It's Tuesday. It feels like Monday for some reason, but it is Tuesday.
0:47.2	I woke up going, why isn't it Friday? Like thinking it was Thursday? But then it was,
0:51.8	it was just Tuesday and now I have sads.
0:55.8	Oh, don't have sads.
0:56.9	Have happys.
0:57.9	Okay.
0:58.8	I'm working on it.
1:00.3	I have more coffee and that I'll be fine.
1:00.6	Yeah.
1:02.3	So we have news.
1:03.5	We do have the news.
1:06.9	So we have Bookerite Live news.
1:12.0	Mara Wilson, everybody's favorite faceless old woman who lives in your house from the Welcome to Nightvale podcast slash also Matilda slash the little girl from Miracle on 34th Street
1:18.2	slash a million other things is coming to book ride live.
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