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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn recommend audiobooks for summer reading, books about menopause, Antarctic stories, and more! This episode is sponsored by The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes by Zach Dundas and Book Riot Live. 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 New audiobooks newsletter! The Cutting Season by Attica Locke The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (read by Bryan Cranston) Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (read by Kathleen Wilhoite from The Gilmore Girls) Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (read by Lin-Manuel Miranda) My Last Continent by Midge Raymond (out June 21) Our Lady of Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke (rec’d by Swapna Krishna) All Around the World: Women Writers from Every Continent by Alison Peters We Mammals in Hospitable Times by Jynne Dilling Martin Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing The Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Persona by Genevieve Valentine Huntress by Malinda Lo Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause by Judy Norsigian The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor Lab Girl by Hope Jahren I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Me, My Hair, and I edited by Elizabeth Benedict Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:10.2

Save and splurge at Arcado, the online supermarket. Geographical and other restrictions. Minimum spend, 60 pounds and charges apply.

0:16.6

New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com.

0:20.9

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

0:25.6

This is episode 34 and we are recording on June 20th.

0:29.4

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

0:34.0

Party duty.

0:34.9

Happy Monday.

0:37.5

I'm caffeinated, so it's a happy Monday for me.

0:42.6

Yeah.

0:43.2

Yeah.

0:43.8

Mm-hmm.

0:44.9

I'm so out of it.

0:47.5

I can't even tell.

0:48.7

Yesterday was Father's Day, right?

0:50.3

Oh, yeah.

0:51.1

It's just a crazy, like holidays are always crazy.

0:53.9

Mm-hmm. It was also June teens. So. Yes. Yes, yeah. It's just a crazy, like holidays are always crazy. It was also June

0:55.2

teens. So. Yes, yes it was. But yeah. Yeah. Well, okay, Monday. I'm glad to be, I don't even

1:04.6

know what I'm saying. Y'all, somebody get me some more coffee. Okay. Well, Amanda gets some more

1:10.8

coffee. I will tell you some more about this podcast. Well, Amanda gets some more coffee.

1:11.6

I will tell you some more about this podcast.

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