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🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss alternate history novels, more murder, culturally diverse romance, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Novel Gazing, Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. 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. Feedback Sourdough by Robin Sloan (rec’d by Tara) A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (TW for child abuse and child sexual assault, domestic violence, self-harm, suicide, drug use) (rec’d by Kelsey) Melissa Brayden’s Soho Loft series and Seven Shores series, Ann McMan’s Jericho series, Lise Gold’s Compass series, and Harper Bliss’ Pink Bean (rec’d by Wynnde) The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill, Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee, Cities of Salt by Abdul Rahman Munif, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif (rec’d by Sibyl) Books Discussed The Lost Man by Jane Harper As Long As We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Chaney (tw: violence towards women & children, including imprisonment, rape, child abuse, domestic violence; suicide, graphic violence) Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao (TW rape, trafficking, child abuse) The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich (tw: violence towards women and children, lynching) The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke Everfair by Nisi Shawl (tw: racism and violence) You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott Penance by Kanae Minato (tw: harm to children) Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (tw: domestic violence, child abuse, rape) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Accardo, you'll save 25% on your first shop and get free delivery,
0:04.6	which means if you were to buy a four cheese pizza,
0:07.3	you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free.
0:10.2	Save and splurge at Arcado, the online supermarket.
0:12.9	Geographical and other restrictions.
0:14.5	Minimum spend, 60 pounds and charges apply.
0:16.6	New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com.
0:19.8	Thank you. new customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Arcado.com.
0:34.3	This is the Get Booked Podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:37.7	This is episode 214 and we're recording on January 14th. I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from Book Riot
0:41.2	and I definitely almost said this is the Get Borked podcast.
0:48.5	Like it was coming out of my mouth. I caught it in time. Everything is fine.
0:53.8	That should be our side podcast.
0:56.8	Get bored. What would that even be about? Just chili and like hot chocolate and all of the
1:04.1	things that have gone wrong in the last however many hours since recording.
1:10.1	Something is in retrograde, but that's okay.
1:13.5	My brain.
1:14.2	My brain is in retrograde.
1:15.8	Anyway, so how the show works, it's called Get Booked, not Get Borked.
1:20.4	This is a podcast for reading recommendations, as I mentioned.
1:23.8	So if you need a reading recommendation request, or you have a reading recommendation request for you or your book club or a gift or whatever, you can send it to us via email at get booked at bookrider.com or you can drop it in the form in the show notes on the site. If it is time sensitive, please put that in the subject line or in big capital letters in the first line if you're using the form, so we'll get to it on time. We might email you back if we've already answered your question on the show or if we
1:47.3	aren't going to get your question on time. Okay, so we've got a few, many, so many pieces
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