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🗓️ 29 September 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss fall books, science & technology history, novels about cults, and more on this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by What the Dickens?! by Bryan Kozlowski and The Case of the Defunct Adjunct by Frankie Bow. 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 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry The Secret History by Donna Tartt Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Pandemic by Sonia Shah Grunt by Mary Roach I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud Girls From Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe (recommended by Rachel Fershleiser) Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (recommended by Rachel Fershleiser) Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu Arcadia by Lauren Groff The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Galante Post on Cult Hits: 5 YAs To Satisfy Your Kimmy Schmidt Cravings by Sona Charaipotra The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte, trans. Sonia Soto The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger Oye What I’m Gonna Tell You by Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés 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 weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:34.7	This is episode 48 and we are recording on September 27th.
0:38.1	I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:42.4	In rainy fall days. Yeah, yeah. I feel like it's a good thing that we have fall questions today
0:47.6	because today is the perfect day to answer them. It is. We're both wearing sweaters for like the first
0:53.6	time in months, which is nice.
0:55.4	Yep. And it's rainy and a little chilly.
1:00.1	I'm going to make hot chocolate later.
1:02.7	You live so right. I live right. I do. I do.
1:07.1	Speaking of things that are happening in the fall, do you like my segue.
1:10.1	That was good. That was good. I just want to remind everybody that Book Riot Live is
1:15.3	46 days away as of this recording, I do believe.
1:19.2	And you should join us.
1:20.2	It's here in New York City.
1:21.5	It is going to happen on November 12th and 13th.
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1:28.5	you will get $20 off your weekend pass or $10 off your day pass.
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