Amanda and Jenn recommend fairy tales for grown-ups, examinations of marriage (with rage-filled lady protagonists), and more on this week’s Get Booked.
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Books Discussed!
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Gemma Bovary by Posy Simmonds
Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel by Anya Ulinich
Jem and the Holograms Vol. 1: Showtime
Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust, translated by Kim Thompson
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Think of England by KJ Charles
Edinburgh by Alexander Chee, trigger warning for child molestation
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Cat Valente
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.S. Duffy
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
I Married You For Happiness by Lily Tuck
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (trigger warning for domestic violence)
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