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🗓️ 2 November 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss steampunk, Native American authors, and great series on this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Madison Reed and Swoon Reads. 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 Everfair by Nisi Shawl Boneshaker by Cherie Priest Half-Made World by Felix Gilman Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko One Native Life by Richard Wagamese http://www.firstnations.org/books Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield The Bone People by Keri Hulme Come On Shore and We Will Kill You and Eat You All by Christina Thompson Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz Eight Feet in the Andes by Dervla Murphy Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy The 13th Tale by Diane Setterfield Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores by Jen Campbell The King’s English by Betsy Burton Cloudy With a Chance of Marriage by Kieran Kramer Flavia DeLuce series by Alan Bradley (The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie) Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn (The Duke and I) Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French (In the Woods #1) Codex Alera by Jim Butcher (Furies of Calderon #1) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Accardo, you'll save 25% on your first shop and get free delivery, which means if you were to buy a four cheese pizza, you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free.
0:10.2	Save and splurge at Arcado, the online supermarket. Geographical and other restrictions. Minimum spend, 60 pounds and charges apply.
0:16.6	New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com.
0:21.0	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:24.7	This is episode 54 in re-recording on November 1st.
0:27.7	I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:32.1	Hello.
0:33.3	Welcome. Welcome to our show.
0:34.9	Welcome to Tuesday, except it's Thursday when you're listening to this.
0:39.1	Well, it's Tuesday right now.
0:40.2	So it's all good.
0:42.9	We are like 11 days from Book Riot Live.
0:45.6	I know. How you doing?
0:47.4	Are you like, do you take vacation like immediately after? I don't remember from like.
0:52.8	I can't because I have to run a thousand reports and update six million spreadsheets, but I'll be taking a couple of
1:00.1	vacation days in the following weeks for sure. Because yeah, right now it's just all the time,
1:07.2	book riot live, all the time. We're stuffing the welcome totes this weekend.
1:16.8	That's going to be a blast. I like almost got buried in an avalanche of beanbag chairs in the storage unit last week. So you know. Welcome to behind the scenes. Welcome to behind the scenes of
1:23.4	Book Riot Live. It's it's crazy. We have spreadsheets and beanbag chairs, you should come join us. If you don't already have your ticket, you still have time to get one. Or you can just show up on the day and get one, honestly. Like, if you live in the area, just come by, come by and hang out with us. It's going to be so much fun. But if you get your ticket ahead of time, you can use our discount code, which is jazz hands. I'm making them right now.
2:01.1	You can't see me, but you have to believe me. So yes, if you go to book Riot Live.com and then hit the register button and use the code Jazz Hands. You will get $20 off your weekend pass or $10 off your day pass, and you should definitely come hang out with us. I won't talk about spreadsheets once during the actual thing, I promise. Well, not to you. No, that's right. I will get
2:08.1	spreadsheets, which will be awesome because I really like that. Yeah. Okay. So, as I mentioned,
2:13.0	this is a show for personalized reading recommendations. So how it works is you send us your
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