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🗓️ 2 December 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Welcome to Episode 8, 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 Penguin Random House Audio and DK’s Holiday Gift Generator. 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! Penguin Drop Caps or the Clothbound Coralie Bickford-Smith collection Peter Sis’s illustration of The Conference of the Birds The Graphic Canon Stiff by Mary Roach The Skeleton Crew by Deborah Halber K Blows Top by Peter Carlson The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Louise Erdrich’s Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country A Good American by Alex George Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Georgette Heyer The Beekeeper’s Apprentice series by Laurie R. King Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Wallbanger by Alice Clayton To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Longbourn by Jo Baker The Martian by Andy Weir Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Never Surrender (new Churchill bio) by John Kelly The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighters’ Struggle for Freedom in W.W. I and Equality at Home by Peter N Nelson The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Into the Blizzard by Michael Winter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a biweekly show for personalized reading
0:34.5	recommendations. This is episode 8 and we're recording on Monday,
0:37.7	November 30th. I'm Amanda Nelson, your host and managing editor of Book Riot, and I am here
0:41.7	with our returning guest, Jen Northington, our events director. She's also the co-host of the
0:46.4	BookRage's podcast, a part-time bookseller at Word, and the member of five book groups. Thanks for
0:52.1	coming back on my show. Yay! I'm so glad to be here. This is my
0:55.8	favorite. Yay. So this is a special episode. This is our holiday recommendation episode. So all of the
1:02.8	questions that we got this week are related in some way to winter reading, holiday gift
1:09.2	giving presents, that kind of thing. But we got more questions
1:15.1	than we could really fit into the hour that we have for the show. So you do have another chance.
1:19.7	Our next episode will be in the middle of December. And so we can, we'll do another holiday rec show
1:25.7	then as well. So if you have gift giving questions about who,
1:30.0	you know, books that you want to give to people in your life, then just send them to get booked
1:34.6	at bookgriott.com or you can go to bookgriot.com slash get booked and go into the latest
1:42.0	episode and there will be a form at the bottom of the post where you can
1:45.6	just drop in your question and we will answer them not next week because this is a biweekly
1:51.2	show but the week after so yeah and so that's how this podcast works if you've never listened to us
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