Recs For AAPI Heritage Month

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

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Amanda and Jenn give some recommendations for AAPI Heritage Month in this week’s special themed episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Fill out our listener survey and be entered to win a $50 gift card to the indie bookstore of your choice! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo (out in July 2022) Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang (tw: racially motivated violence) IQ by Joe Ide The Verifiers by Jane Pek (cw: discussion of suicide) The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez (cw: child abuse) Intimacies by Katie Kitamura Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao (tw: child abuse) Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden (tw: addiction) Sonali Dev’s The Rajes series (cw: lots of trauma and angst) Gearbreakers & Godslayers (out June 28) by Zoe Hana Mikuta Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport(cw: violence against women and children incl. rape and abuse, racial slurs, violent racism, and basically everything else you can think of) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:16.6	This is episode 329, and we are recording on May 17th.
0:20.9	I'm Jen Northington.
0:21.9	I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we're coming to you from Book Riot.
0:26.8	And today is a special show.
0:29.2	We're celebrating AAPI Heritage Month.
0:31.9	Woo-whoop.
0:33.1	I mean, we are always recommending Asian American and Pacific Islander authors, really, right?
0:38.7	But, like, let's take a special moment to shout them out.
0:42.4	So we've got recommendations coming up for Southeast Asian American, East Asian American, Pacific Islander, all kinds of different authors.
0:50.1	Many genres.
0:51.2	Many genres.
0:51.9	Oh, yeah, so many genres.
0:53.4	That was the fun part of planning for today.
0:55.4	I was like, I will have every genre.
0:58.4	Yeah, same.
0:59.1	I really tried to hit a nice mix of both ethnicities and genres, which made it for like a fun Tetris game.
1:08.1	Yeah, it was.
1:09.0	The Tetris is exactly right.
1:10.9	It was very fun to like go through my reading, you know, spreadsheets and, like,
1:15.3	try to, like, make the perfect, like, mini jigsaw puzzle for today.
1:20.5	Obviously, there's no, like, one list, right?
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