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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Sharifah discuss heartbreaking YA, real-life heist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by PodX, Flatiron Books, and How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. 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. Feedback For horror westerns: In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson, Hunger by Alma Katsu (rec’d by Emily) Books Discussed The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (TW gun violence) The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan (TW suicide) Passing Strange by Ellen Klages The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi (contributor) Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi An Englishman in Madrid by Eduardo Mendoza, trans Nick Caistor By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paolo Coelho The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint Jade City by Fonda Lee The Cruel Prince by Holly Black Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Get Booked. PodX is May 31st through June 2nd in the heart of Nashville at the Music City Center.

0:56.4

Jen and I will both be there, and we are both on panels, including a session of Get Book Live,

1:02.7

where the audience will be asking us for book recommendations on the spot, which is going to be

1:07.7

very interesting to witness, I'm sure.

1:10.8

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If you end up at the show, do come find us and say hello.

1:35.1

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

1:39.8

This is episode 181, and we are recording on May 13th. I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Shrefer Williams, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.

1:44.1

Welcome, Sharifa.

1:45.6

Thank you. Have you been on this show before? I can't remember. I was just about to say I can't remember if I've been on. I think I have. I think I have actually. But it was a while back. It was before I was M.E. Before I was managing editor. So I'm sure I was like, what am I doing?

2:02.0

What am I talking about?

2:04.6

Um, was M.E. before I was managing editor. So I'm sure I was like, what am I doing? What am I talking

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