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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss audiobooks for kids, debut fiction, and overlooked classics on this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Deadly Silence by Rebecca Zanetti and Playster. 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 11 Most Recommended Books from Get Booked’s First Year The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden, narrated by Tony Shalhoub The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, narrated by Michael York The Turner House by Angela Flournoy Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer All the Birds Singing by Evie Wyld We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis The Language of Secrets by Ausma Zehanat Khan The Reader by Traci Chee Iron Cast by Destiny Soria Archivist Wasp by Nicole Horner-Stace Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White, The Moonstone) 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup She by H. Rider Haggard Orlando by Virginia Woolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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buy a four cheese pizza, you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free. Save and splurge

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at Arcado, the online supermarket. Geographical and other restrictions. Minimum spend, 60 pounds

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

0:21.0

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

0:24.9

This is episode 53, and we are recording on October 25th.

0:28.2

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

0:32.3

Hello. Hello. I watched Hocus Pocus last night.

0:35.8

Did you? So that's my Halloween plan. Is Hocus Pocus last night. Did you? So that's my, that's my Halloween plan. It's Hocus Pocus and Beetlejuice. I went to Rebecca's house. She made like a chorizo black bean soup out of the new Anthony Bourdain cookbook. And we watched Toccus and it was excellent. There were margaritas involved. It was a good time. Yes, good. Yes, good. Living right.

0:56.8

Speaking of living right.

0:59.0

It's like, how do I segue this? Book Riot Live reminder. It's only, oh my God, it's like

1:05.3

less than 20 days away right now as we record this. That's crazy. You should come join us.

1:11.5

It's going to be amazing.

1:12.6

It is November 12th and 13th here in New York City, and there's going to be a ton of amazing

1:18.1

authors and panels and games and meetups and just the whole nine yards.

1:22.7

If you like book things, it is all of your favorite book things and favorite book people,

1:26.7

we hope.

1:27.6

You should use code jazz hands when you register because that will get you $20 off your weekend pass or $10 off a day pass, but you should really come for both days and, okay, I'm done. Book Riot Live.com. Go check it out. Come to see us. It's going to be so much fun. Whatever. It's all right. Oh, I wanted to mention before we

1:46.1

get into the show that this is our 53rd episode. So we've been going for about a year and Jen

1:51.2

put together a post for the site that's our like 11 most recommended titles. Is it 11? It's 11.

1:57.4

Yes, most recommended titles on the show. And it's just super interesting. So if that's like data that you'd be interested in seeing, you can go check out the post. The first one is Sorcercer to the Crown, of course. Obviously, which is also a Riot Read Book Club pick because we just can't get enough of it. Yup, yep, yep. Anyway, so how the show works. Like I said, this is a personalized reading recommendation show. So you send us in your reading recommendation request. You can email them to us at book riot or excuse me, get booked at bookwrit.com, or you can drop them in the form at the bottom of the show notes. If you have a question that is time sensitive, like your book club is meeting in a month and you need a book for it or something like that. Please note in the subject line or the first line of your question that it's time sensitive. So we can try to answer it on time. We've also started emailing responses to people who are asking questions that we've answered on the show before. So keep an eye on your inbox. Also, you might get an email question instead of getting it answered on the air if it's something that we've covered. So moving on, we're going to do our first question and then our first sponsor and then we will get to it. All right. Our very first question is from Randy. I teach a concurrent enrollment college composition class for high school seniors. Part of the syllabus

3:08.5

for the spring semester involves covering literary analysis. In addition to plays, poems,

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