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This is the Get Booked Podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

This is episode 18, and we are recording on Tuesday, March 1st. I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from

book riot.com. This is the third time we have started recording this show because I've

been having some technical difficulties. It's going to work. They say that third time is

the term, right? I feel good about this. Sure. I'm knocking on every piece of wood in my vicinity, which is really just this bookcase.

Yeah. All right. Moving on. Yes. So let's just, what are? Let's just jump on. Yeah, let's launch it in. We're both six, so we're going to do it to it. All right. This first question is my favorite. It's about space. Wait, wait. Do we need to tell people how to submit questions before we launch into them?

Yes.

Can you tell I've taken like 18 day quills? I don't know where I am. I forgot my name. Okay. So the way that this podcast works is if you have a reading recommendation that you need for yourself, for your book club, for a gift you want to give to someone, doesn't matter. You send them into us and we answer them on the show. So you can email them to us at get booked at bookright.com, or you can drop your question into the form at the bottom of every post for get booked that is on the site. So if you just go to bookrite.com, scroll down and all of the podcasts have their own little section on the homepage and just click on Get Booked, any of the episodes, the form is down there at the bottom. So, uh, if you need us to tell you what your book club should read next or you read a book that you loved and you want to read something just like it, whatever, doesn't matter. Get as granular and specific as you want, and we will find a way to answer your question. If we don't personally have an answer, we will take your questions back to the book write contributors of which there are over 100, and they read everything,

and we will find a recommendation for you. So that is how you submit questions to us. Okay. Here we go.

Question one. Here we go. All right, let's see. I listen to all the bookwrite podcasts, and I follow many writers on Twitter, but I've never felt the need to write in until now, and I blame you. Okay, thanks. I recently took advantage of the audible sale in Mary Roach's books, and after having heard Rebecca rave about them in several venues, I thought I should dive in. So I tweeted her for recommendations, and the one she mentioned was packing for Mars. I blew through it and loved it. And afterward, as I listened to other Mary Roach books, I realized there was a space-shaped hole in my heart. So I read The Martian. I've been meaning to get to it for a while and I needed to read it before the movie came out anyway. And it was so good, but now I'm stuck. I'm currently reading Randle Monroe's What If and loving it. scratching the right itches, but I need more space, fiction or nonfiction. Can You Help? Sincerely Lost in Space. Not really, I'm actually Jennifer in Florida, but I always want to design something that way. That's great. That's great. So that's Jennifer. Did you pick two novels? No, I did not. Oh, okay. I think one novel and one not novel, which is also known as nonfiction when you're not heavily medicated on cold medicine.

One novel and one truthy thing.

Yes.

All right.

You go first.

My non-truthy thing, as we are now calling it, is my novel recommendation for you is Red Mars by Kim

Stanley Robinson. It is a classic, and Kim Stanley Robinson is great. I've enjoyed reading him for

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