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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jenn and guest Sarah Davis discuss book club picks, dancers, capital punishment, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Audible , EveryPlate, and Nurx. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, 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 Washington Black by Esi Edugyan The Night Ocean by Paul LaFarge (Cosmic Horror post) The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani “10 New Controversial Books to Shake up Your Book Club” Disoriental by Negar Djavadi, translated by Tina A. Kover Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler Pointe by Brandy Colbert (tw: eating disorders) Dancer by Colum McCann Burial Rites by Hannah Kent The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis A Touch of Stardust by Kate Alcott Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub The Study of Animal Languages by Lindsay Stern Ammonite by Nicola Griffith The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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to learn more. Before we get started with today's episode, we just wanted to let you know that if you are

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slash audible to sign up for your free trial and get two free audiobooks. This is the Get Book

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podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations. This is episode 169, and we are recording on February 19th.

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I'm Jen Northington, and I'm here with Sarah Davis, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.

1:20.3

Hello. Hi. So Sarah, you are both a contributor and a bibliologist for our TBR tailored book recommendations

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service. Will you tell us a little bit about that? Sure. So as a bibliologist, I'll receive a request

1:36.6

from someone. It could be either for recommendations only or for hardcover. And if they choose

1:43.8

hardcover, they'll get three hardcover new releases so

1:47.4

then people can give you feedback based on what you've recommended before and it's a really nice

1:52.4

mix of what people ask for because sometimes they're what they're looking for something really

1:56.9

specific and those are always both challenging and fun to find something for um and sometimes

2:03.6

people will want something that's a little bit more in their comfort zone and i also really like

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