Get Booked

Amanda and Jenn discuss college novels, urban fantasy, short audiobooks and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Books Discussed

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Grit by Angela Duckworth

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen, transl by Lola Rogers

Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea

anything by Mohsin Hamid (How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia)

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Angel’s Blood by Nalini Singh

Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Victor LaValle (The Ballad of Black Tom)

Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

Shrill by Lindy West

You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott

Rincey’s recs on YouTube: Short Books, Part 1 and Part 2

Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg (rec’d by Rachel Smalter Hall)

The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy (rec’d by Rachel Smalter Hall)

Pure by Julianna Baggott

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

The Killing Moon by NK Jemisin

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