Amanda and Jenn recommend books to read after college, what to read to fill the void left by The Night Circus, and more. This episode is sponsored by Jakob’s Colors by Lindsay Hawdon and the Book Riot Store.
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Books Discussed
Adulting by Kelly Williams Brown
Getting Things Done by David Allen
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag by Jolie Kerr
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
The Quick by Lauren Owen
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord
Moods by Yoel Hoffmann (transl. Peter Cole)
Nowhere to be Found by Bae Suah (transl. Sora Kim-Russell)
Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin (New Directions Pearls)
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Art of the Novella, Melville House)
Tor.com’s Novella series
Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series
Dawn by Octavia Butler
Who Fears Death? by Nnedi Okorafor
The Keltiad by Patricia Kenneally (out of print/hard to find but worth it)
Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
Turbulence by Samit Basu
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
Complicit by Stephanie Keuhn
First Second: Gene Luen Yang, Dave Roman, Jorge Aguirre, MK Reed
Barry Lyga, James Dashner, Scott Westerfeld
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Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Poisoned Apples by Christine Heppermann
Me, My Hair, and I, edited by Elizabeth Benedict
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
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