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

This is episode 316, and we are recording on February 1st.

I'm Jen Northington.

I'm here with Amanda Nelson.

We're coming to you from Book Riot, and I'm still waiting for my morning caffeine to kick in.

The eternal struggle.

Usually by the time we sit down to record, I'm like ready to go.

But today, for whatever reason, I maybe should have

had two cups of something. So, yeah, the first of the month. That's just, yeah, it's draining.

Yeah, it's sleepy up in here. All right, well, welcome to the show. If you're new here,

it is, in fact, a personalized reading recommendation show, which means you can send in your request

for a reading recommendation. You can send those in either by email or, well, first let me give you

the email. It's get booked at bookriot.com. Or you can drop it in the form that's on the site.

We have show notes for every episode and you can put it in the form there. If you have a time sensitive request, you're hoping to hear back by a specific date. Put time sensitive, all caps, either in the subject line of the email or the very first line of the form. We'll do our best. We don't answer every question that we get because it's just not possible at this point, but you do answer a lot of them. And it can be a question for you. Maybe it's

for your book club. Maybe you need a gift for a friend or relative or whatever. Send them on in.

All right. So let's see. We have some feedback today from Kate, who says, a suggestion for Glenn

from episode 314 looking for books about academics and scientists.

The Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King is a fascinating history of anthropology through the

career of its early academics and practitioners, Franz Boas, and his students including Margaret

Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Zora Neil Hurston. So plenty of women academics, while they get

short academic shrift

in comparison to their male counterparts.

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