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🗓️ 25 August 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn recommend memoirs, very short books, adventure stories, and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Furious Rush by S. C. Stephens and Reco. 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 Negroland by Margo Jefferson Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Take This Man by Brando Skyhorse Fire Season by Philip Connors Code Talker by Chester Nez Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Beating Back the Devil by Maryn McKenna My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Selmair Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley We the Animals by Justin Torres The Devourers by Indra Das Serpentine by Cindy Pon Infomocracy by Malka Older Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson Summer and Bird by Katherine Catmull Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly Every Day by David Levithan Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang 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.
0:21.2	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:25.2	This is episode 43, and we are recording on August 23rd.
0:28.3	I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:33.2	Hello.
0:33.8	What, what?
0:34.5	How's it going?
0:36.4	It's going.
0:37.1	My neighbor's dog upstairs has been howling for two hours.
0:41.3	So if you all hear it, I apologize.
0:43.3	We didn't have any other time to record today, so...
0:46.3	Mysterious upstairs neighbor dog is a guest.
0:49.3	I guess.
0:50.3	I can't hear it, so I think we're going to be okay.
0:52.3	Okay, good.
0:53.3	We'll just assume that the dog is agreeing with literally everything I say. How about that? Yeah, and like, are my existence in general. Right. It's just like really vocally in support of that. I have no good fed way here. That's fine. Speaking of being vocally in sport of something, come to Book Riot Live.
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