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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss chapter books about girls, thrillers, undersea stories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, One Good Deed by David Baldacci, and Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson. Subscribe to 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 Serial Killers: Murder Without Mercy by Nigel Blundell (rec’d by Sharon) Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik (rec’d by Sibyl) The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar (rec’d by Sibyl) Spoonbenders by Darryl Gregory (rec’d by Sibyl) The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (rec’d by Sibyl) Books Discussed My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar (tw: sexual assault) Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (tw: child abuse) Lola Levine is Not Mean by Monica Brown The Case of the Missing Moonstone (Wollestonecraft Detective Agency #1) by Jordan Stratford, illustrated by Kelly Murphy (rec’d by Karina of Kidlit These Days) My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Case Histories by Kate Atkinson Markswoman by Rati Mehrotra Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri Low by Rick Remender, Greg Tocchini, Dave McCaig Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant Her Halloween Treat by Tiffany Reisz Thirsty by Mia Hopkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.4

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1:04.5

This is the Get Bookbooked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

1:09.0

This is episode 191, and we are recording a little bit

1:12.5

early on July 26. I'm Jen Worthington, and I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you

1:17.6

from Book Riot. This is going to come out in August. We're talking to you from the past. We're always

1:25.9

talking to you from the past. That's true. That is how this works.

1:29.6

That is how this works. Yeah, I forgot like what year it was slash what day it was and I'm traveling

1:34.7

next week. So we're recording a little bit early and I'm not as far along into my reading as I

1:40.0

like to be. But here we are. This is, this is the summer and this is what happens.

1:44.7

True story. Summer problems. Yes. This is, this is the summer and this is what happens. True story.

1:51.0

Summer problems. Yes. Hashtag summer problems. Let's see. So if this is the first time you're listening, welcome. And as we said at the top, this is a weekly show for personalized reading

1:55.8

recommendations, which means listeners like you send us questions for what they should read next, what their book club should read next, what they should get for a friend or a relative, et cetera, et cetera. And we do our best to find you a good pick. If you want to send in a question, you can send it in via email, get booked at bookriot.com, or drop it in the form. This is the bottom of the show notes on the site for every episode. And if you have a time sensitive request, like it's somebody's birthday or you're going to be traveling somewhere, please put the date and time sensitive at the very top of your request, either in the subject line of the email or the very first line of the form. We will do our best. If we don't think we'll get to it on the air,

2:35.0

or if you've asked a question that we've answered a couple times, we might shoot you an

2:38.2

email response. So keep an eye out for those. All right. So we have a bunch of feedback from listeners.

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