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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn recommend books for the Read Harder and other book challenges! This episode is sponsored by Book of the Month Club and Pinhole Press. 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 We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Sex Object by Jessica Valenti Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes A House of My Own by Sandra Cisneros Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel The Hours by Michael Cunningham 100 Books About Mental Illness post Marbles by Ellen Forney Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee The Second Amendment: A Biography by Michael Waldman The Son by Philipp Meyer The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Stoner by John Williams The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky Grimspace by Ann Aguirre Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole Ascension (Tangled Axon #1) by Jacqueline Koyanagi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:10.2

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0:16.6

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0:24.2

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

0:27.2

This is episode 31, and we are recruiting on Wednesday, June 1st.

0:30.0

I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northlington, and we are coming to you from bookriott.com.

0:31.6

And on this show, specifically, we have a theme, which we rarely do these days.

0:35.5

But for this show, we're going to be talking about your questions for the Read Harder Challenge, which is a reading challenge that we have up on the site. This is the second year that we've done it. And I think it's 50, no, 24 tasks. Yes, two a month, right? Yes, math is fundamental. Yes, 24 tasks. And it's designed by, who is one of our O.G contributors. She's been around since the beginning. And it's great. The challenge is designed to get you out of your reading comfort zone. So genres you've never tried before, authors you've never tried before, that sort of thing. And so we've gotten a lot of questions about people needing help with tasks for that. So that's what we are going to be answering today.

1:12.9

Before we do that, Jen has some Book Riot Live news that she wants to get to.

1:16.1

Oh, yeah.

1:16.6

I'm like doing a dance over here.

1:18.7

So I don't know if you've been paying attention to Book Riot Live, but we just announced today, June 1st, that we have Walter Mosley.

1:32.2

Yay! I'm like freaking out. So Walter Mosley, who is like a legend,

1:37.9

he's the author of the Easy Rollins mystery series. He's won a Grammy. The man is like amazing. I saw that in the post that you wrote about it. What did he win a Grammy for? I don't even know.

1:43.1

Who cares? Doesn't matter? He's written so many

1:46.4

amazing books. I like was thinking about it this morning and I like want to do a whole show that's

1:50.8

nothing about like, nothing but like recommending Walter Mosley books. But anyway, um, he's going to be a

1:55.6

book riot live. So therefore you should too. And we're so excited that we extended the early bird discount to the end of this month.

2:03.6

So you now have until June 30th to get $40 off your tickets, which are also VIP tickets still,

2:08.9

which get you early access to special RSVP panels, which there will be, because we got Walter Mosley.

2:18.8

And so you should go to books.

2:20.2

You're so fancy, Jen.

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