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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn recommend series by POC, light-hearted books for book club, Southeast Asian Lit, and more on this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by TryAudiobooks.com and The A-Z of You and Me by James Hannah. 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 Mentioned Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel Jose Older Re Jane by Patricia Park Literary Brooklyn by Evan Hughes Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood (rec’d by Sharanya) The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma Ask the Passengers by A.S. King Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris Bellwether by Connie Willis Lamb by Christopher Moore The Vegetarian by Han Kang The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Pluto by Naoki Urasawa and Osamu Tezuka Big Machine by Victor LaValle In the Country by Mia Alvar The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin The Gun Dealer’s Daughter by Gina Apostol Black Water Rising by Attica Locke Primates of Park Avenue by Wednesday Martin Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie American Housewife by Helen Ellis Single Carefree Mellow by Katherine Heiny Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.9

This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:34.6

This is episode 29, and we're recording on Tuesday, May 17th.

0:37.8

I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from Book Riot.

0:42.2

Woo-hoo. Post-B-EA.

0:44.5

Yeah. I was just thinking. I was like, B.E.A was so good and I'm so tired, but it was so good.

0:51.9

It was. It was very productive. And I sent out all like like, my follow-up emails this morning, and I'm pretty good about it. I am still kind of exhausted. Like, the older I get, and the more BEAs I go to, the longer it takes me to recover. True facts. Like an old. Anyway. Yeah, I have to do my follow-ups today. But speaking of BEA, we got a lot of good meetings and had a lot of ideas about Book Riot

1:14.5

live.

1:15.6

So if you guys haven't already checked that out, you have like just about two weeks left to get

1:20.1

VIP passes, which are, there's $40 off the weekend pass.

1:24.8

Um, it's a discounted day pass.

1:26.3

If you can only come for one day, you get early

1:28.5

RSVP access to special events, and you get a free water bottle, which is awesome. Yeah, so you

1:35.3

should check that out. It's bookriottlive.com. We're making all kinds of good plans. You should

1:39.6

join us in November. It's November 12 and 13th. And this year we're sponsored again by Bookwitty,

1:44.2

who was our sponsor last year and had a really awesome booth. So that's pretty exciting too.

1:48.9

Yeah, yeah. Come see us. So if you are new to the show, this is a personalized reading

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