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The Night Circus Void

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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn recommend books to read after college, what to read to fill the void left by The Night Circus, and more. This episode is sponsored by Jakob’s Colors by Lindsay Hawdon and the Book Riot Store. 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 Adulting by Kelly Williams Brown Getting Things Done by David Allen The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag by Jolie Kerr Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay The Quick by Lauren Owen Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord Moods by Yoel Hoffmann (transl. Peter Cole) Nowhere to be Found by Bae Suah (transl. Sora Kim-Russell) Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin (New Directions Pearls) The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Art of the Novella, Melville House) Tor.com’s Novella series Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series Dawn by Octavia Butler Who Fears Death? by Nnedi Okorafor The Keltiad by Patricia Kenneally (out of print/hard to find but worth it) Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin Turbulence by Samit Basu When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds Complicit by Stephanie Keuhn First Second: Gene Luen Yang, Dave Roman, Jorge Aguirre, MK Reed Barry Lyga, James Dashner, Scott Westerfeld http://diversityinya.tumblr.com/ Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel Poisoned Apples by Christine Heppermann Me, My Hair, and I, edited by Elizabeth Benedict I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a biweekly show for personalized reading

0:34.6

recommendations. This is episode 11 and we are recording on Tuesday, January 12th. I'm Amanda Nelson, your host and managing editor, Book Riot, and I'm here

0:41.5

with co-host Jen Northington, who is our events director. Welcome back, of course.

0:46.3

Hey! If you missed our announcement last week and are wondering why Jen is here again,

0:50.8

it is because we are moving to a weekly format from biweekly and Jen is going to be

0:54.9

my perma co-host. Hooray. Super excited. Yeah. So me and Jencho. Forever and ever even. There were a lot of

1:03.6

jazz hands last week. There were. I sometimes wish, but not most of the time, but sometimes wish that

1:08.7

you guys could see me while I'm recording,

1:16.3

but not always because I'm usually wearing my pajamas. That would be awkward. So for those of you who are new to the show, this is a recommendation show. You can write in your recommendation request

1:21.4

for books for you, for your book club, for gifts, for whatever. If you need something to, like,

1:26.4

fill the Harry Potter void in your life, we can give you answers to that question. If you need something to like fill the Harry Potter void in your life, we can give

1:29.4

you answers to that question. If you need a present for your great aunt or whatever, a book

1:34.4

present, we can help you with that. We can help you with pretty much anything. So you can send

1:37.8

your questions to us on Twitter. You can email them to us at get booked at bookgriott.com or you can

1:43.3

go onto the get booked section of the book riot

1:45.1

website and just drop your question in the form that is at the bottom of every episode.

1:50.6

Okay, so let's just go ahead and get started. Yeah? All right. You want to read the first question?

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