Get Booked

Amanda and Jenn discuss YA with no romance, classics worth picking up, escapist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by The Storybound Podcast, The Mason House, available now from Lanternfish Press, and Skyhunter by Marie Lu, with Fierce Reads.

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Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner (rec’d by Tirzah)

Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee 

1984 by George Orwell (tw: torture)

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (tw: all the bad things happen y’all — rape, harm to children, etc)

The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

The Switch by Beth O’Leary

Swordspoint and Tremontaine by Ellen Kushner, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Malinda Lo, etc.

American Indian Stories by Zitkála Sá

The Destroy Series in Uncanny Magazine and Lightspeed Magazine

Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

Into the Planet by Jill Heinerth

2AM at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (tw: racism, prejudice within minority communities)

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