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

This is episode 17 and we're recording on Tuesday, February 23rd. I am Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from bookriott.com. How you doing? Good. I'm a little sad because it's so rainy here. Yeah, it's disgusting here, too. Yeah. I guess that's February or something. Sure. Whatever. February is the cruelest month. T.S. Eliot was just wrong. Right. Wait, which one did T.S. Eliot's right? April. April. What's cruel about April? I don't know. The modernists give me a headache, so I don't actually ever, like, read T.S. Eliot. Well, you heard it here first. With the exception to Virginia Woolf, who can do no wrong, all the men are annoying, though. In fact, I'm going to talk about her today. So, like, excellent, you know, pre-segue, segue, segue, segue. My segue game is strong. It is. It is. You didn't even know. Are you sad about Harper Lee? Or is that

none of the thing you care about? I mean, of course I'm sad. And Umberto Echo. And this year, on the same day.

I know. This year's just been the worst. Like we, I don't understand what's going on. I'm not usually

like super affected by celebrity deaths, but Alan Rickman tore me up.

I was so sad about Alan Rickman.

And then Harper Lee, I just, you know.

Yeah.

David Bowie and Alan Rickman.

In the same week, I think that was.

It was like, and then Harper Lee and Umberto Hecker on the same day.

Like somebody wants us to be really sad. Man, I'm, I'm sad that, I mean, obviously the man cannot control when he dies, but I'm sad that he died on the same day as Harper Lee because then he lost, like, no one was paying attention, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a, it's a weird thing, the communal experience of grief on the internet, right? And like, when it doubles up, it's even weirder.

Yeah. All right. So now that we've talked about rain and death, let's move on. So for those of you who are listening for the first time, this is a reading recommendation show.

So you can write into us with your questions about, you know, books for your book club, books you want to give as gifts, read-alikes.

If you're looking for something to fill the void that a certain beloved title left in your soul, we can help you with that.

You can email your questions to get booked at bookgriot.com, or you can drop them into the form at the bottom of every post.

And we will answer your questions. So let's just go. Let's go. All right. First question, this is from Allison. I'm not much into mystery as a genre, but I do like fiction with mystery elements to it, or at least ones that feel less genre-ish. Example, I really like all of Town of French's books that I've read so far. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters is one of my favorite books that I read this year and probably ever, and I just read Rebecca by Daphne de Moray and really enjoyed that. Can you give me some other ideas for books that are mysteries without being mysteries?

And that, again, is from Allison.

So before we get started, I want to say what you're looking for, we did a post about, well, actually Jen wrote a post about yesterday.

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