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🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn give some holiday gifting recs, immersive historical fiction, thrillers for book club, 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 The Secret History by Donna Tartt Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin (cw: antisemitism, harm to children) Pushout by Monique W. Morris The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (cw: racism) The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan The Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh (Sea of Poppies #1) Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (tw: sexual assault, mental illness, self-harm) So Lucky by Nicola Griffith The Lost Man by Jane Harper (tw: domestic violence, sexual assault) Lady Sherlock (A Study in Scarlet Women #1) by Sherry Thomas Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen (cw: ableist language around mental health) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is your latest idea.
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0:25.6	Do that with Acrobat. Learn more and try it out on Adobe.com. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:46.3	This is episode 310, and we are recording on December 14th.
0:50.3	I'm Jen Northington.
0:51.3	I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot
0:56.3	and the unseasonably warm December weather of Philadelphia. Oh, bummer. It's going to be in the
1:02.8	60s this week, which I guess I'm not super sad about because it means eating outside at restaurants
1:08.5	is nicer than if it was freezing. So there's that, I guess. I don't know. I just seem telling myself that we're still in autumn. So I should not be expecting very chilly, chilliness. But also climate change, you know. Yeah, yeah. Have you fired up your fireplace yet? I have once, but then it's the same here. It's like in the 60s.
1:28.0	I don't know. It's the South. I don't know. Every year I'm surprised. Well, it's December and it's still in the
1:31.6	50s or whatever. Right. You live here. Good job. Well, I know there was a lot of dramatic weather
1:37.1	in various places this past week. So we're sending our thoughts to everybody affected by that.
1:42.6	Hopefully you'll have some chiller, both literally and figuratively, weather coming to you.
1:49.2	All right.
1:49.6	So what is this show you perhaps are wondering if you are new here?
1:53.1	It is, we swear, a reading recommendation show.
1:55.4	You can send in your recommendation requests either via email, get booked at bookride.com, or you can drop them in the form that's at the bottom of the show notes on the site for each episode.
2:06.9	And you can ask for a recommendation for yourself. It can be for a friend or relative, family member, book club, whatever. We will potentially find you some books. If it's time sensitive, please put time
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