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Holiday Recommendations Part II

Get Booked

Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Episode 9, our second episode all about holiday gift giving recommendations! I brought Jenn Northington back to be my guest host for this one because she’s a book recommendation MACHINE, I tell you. Jenn is our Events Director here at Book Riot, cohost of the Bookrageous podcast, part-time bookseller at Word, and member of five book groups. Find her on Twitter @jennIRL. This episode is sponsored by the Book Riot Quarterly Box and YA Quarterly Box. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed on the Show! Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (for discussion) Old Man’s War by John Scalzi Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho China Mieville, Embassytown Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera The Body Where I Was Born by Guadalupe Nettel Terra Nostra, Carlos Fuentes Clandestine in Chile, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a report, written by Gabriel García Márquez Saga Vol 1. by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples Shadowshapers by DJ Older Twelfth Night by Shakespeare Christine Hepperman’s Poisoned Apples: Poetry for You Inside Out and Back Again, Thanhha Lai anything Ellen Hopkins 2 AM at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino Landline by Rainbow Rowell Where’d You Go Bernadette, Maria Semple Hogfather by Terry Pratchett  The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper Let the Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist NOS4A2 by Joe Hill Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes Chimera, David Wellington Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a biweekly show for personalized reading

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recommendations. This is episode nine and we are recording on Monday, December 14th. I'm Amanda Nelson, your host and the managing editor of Book Riot,

0:41.5

and I'm here once again with returning guest, Jen Northington, our events director at Book Riot,

0:45.9

also co-host of the BookRages podcast, part-time bookseller at Word, and member of five

0:50.4

different book groups. Thank you for coming back on the show. I love being here.

0:55.7

So we got so many questions for holiday recommendation, like requests for people giving

1:02.0

gifts that we had to split it up into two shows. I did not predict that was going to happen.

1:06.0

I really thought we'd be able to get it all into the last episode, but we didn't. So I brought Jen

1:09.6

back to do part two.

1:11.4

There is also a holiday recommendation episode of the main book riot podcast. So if you listen to

1:17.7

the main book riot podcast with Jeff O'Neill and Rebecca Shinsky, and I'm on it like once every six to

1:22.4

eight weeks, they did a special episode that was just this sort of format. People wrote it with their questions, and Jeff and Rebecca recommended books to them, too.

1:30.1

So if you're looking for ideas, you don't have a specific question in mind.

1:33.7

Maybe you can go back and listen to part one of our holiday recommendations, which came up two weeks ago, or you can, and or slash or.

1:41.1

You can listen to the book riot main podcast, and they have an episode about it as well.

1:46.0

Aren't there a couple of YouTube videos too?

1:48.0

Yes, there have been two YouTube videos.

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