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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss books about mother-daughter relationships, climate change primers, engaging audiobooks, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian, new in paperback from Algonquin Books, 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 Daevabad Trilogy (City of Brass #1) by S.A. Chakraborty, Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, and City of Spires series (City of Strife #1) (rec’d by Eric) Books Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin The Magical Language of Others by EJ Koh (tw: suicidal thoughts and attempts, disordered eating, domestic violence, sexual assault, depression) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (trigger warnings: child abuse) The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells Climate Changed by Philippe Squarzoni NW by Zadie Smith Brick Lane by Monica Ali (tw: domestic violence) Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (tw: slavery) Book of Night Women by Marlon James, narrated by Robin Miles (tw: slavery & related violence) Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (rec’d by Jamie Canaves) How To Be a Movie Star by TJ Klune (tw: suicidal thoughts, depression, anxiety) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Tentacle by Rita Indiana, translated by Achy Obejas (tw: sexual assault, transphobia, homophobia, use of slurs, racism) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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This is episode 21st, and we are recording on January 21st.

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

0:47.0

Hello. Hello.

0:49.4

Welcome to the seventh month of January.

1:14.2

It does feel like it's been really long, but also really fast as time is want to do. What is time? Time is a flood circle. It's that wibbly wobbly time you want to do. That's what it is. That's what January is. Also, it's 19 degrees here today. Nice. And I don't have chili and it's like a travesty. I'm making stew today. My life is hard. Yeah, I need to do that thing.

1:21.0

Well, anyway, hello, everyone. We hope that you have stew or chili or whatever it is that you prefer when it is cold out. And thank you for joining us today. If you are new to the show, here's how it works.

1:26.9

Folks like y'all, or maybe you specifically,

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send in email or form requests for books of what you should read next. Like I said, you can send

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them via email, get booked at bookriot.com, or you can drop them in the form that's at the bottom

1:40.2

of the show notes on the site for every episode. And you can ask for suggestions for you,

1:45.0

for a family member or friend or a loved one, for book club, for gifting, just for whatever. And we

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will do our best to find you your next great read. If you have a time sensitive request,

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please put time sensitive and then the date you're hoping to hear back by either the subject line of the email or the very first line of the form, we'll do our best.

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