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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Life’s Work by Willie Parker. Follow 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss Amanda’s new job (!), Murakami read-alikes, the perfect plane read, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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. FEEDBACK Molly Harper’s Bluegrass Series (rec’d by another Amanda) Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell (rec’d by Tanelle) Books Discussed What’s Left of Me is Yours by Stephanie Scott (tw: violence against women) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid The Change by Kirsten Miller (tw: childhood sex abuse, obvious references to the Epstein/Maxwell case) Light Years From Home by Mike Chen (cw: dementia, loss of a parent) Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark Everfair by Nisi Shawl (cw: graphic violence and war crimes, racism) Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward (tw: suicide) House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild Haldol and Hyacinths by Melody Moezzi (tw: suicide attempts) For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag Post: Books Like Heartstopper Fence by C.S. Pacat, Johanna the Mad, Joana LaFuente, and Jim Campbell For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo. Follow 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn give some recommendations for AAPI Heritage Month in this week’s special themed episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Fill out our listener survey and be entered to win a $50 gift card to the indie bookstore of your choice! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo (out in July 2022) Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang (tw: racially motivated violence) IQ by Joe Ide The Verifiers by Jane Pek (cw: discussion of suicide) The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez (cw: child abuse) Intimacies by Katie Kitamura Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao (tw: child abuse) Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden (tw: addiction) Sonali Dev’s The Rajes series (cw: lots of trauma and angst) Gearbreakers & Godslayers (out June 28) by Zoe Hana Mikuta Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport(cw: violence against women and children incl. rape and abuse, racial slurs, violent racism, and basically everything else you can think of) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Open by Rachel Krantz. Follow 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss complicated relationships, summer books, shocking twists, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Fill out our listener survey and be entered to win a $50 gift card to the indie bookstore of your choice! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Feedback Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall (rec’d by Mel) Prosperity series by Alexis Hall (Jenn cannot believe she forgot!) Books Discussed Serena Singh Flips the Script by Sonya Lalli (tw domestic violence) Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (cw: alcohol abuse) The Guncle by Steven Rowley Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers (cw: anxiety) The Guest List by Lucy Foley (tw extreme bullying) The Old Woman With the Knife by Gu Byeong-Mo with Chi-Young Kim (cw: harm to women and children, death of an animal) The Expatriates by Janice YK Lee We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (cw: animal death, harm to children) The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (cw: sooooo much body horror and gore) Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar (cw: harm to children, sexual assault) The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black (The Cruel Prince) A post! Books Like A Court of Thorns and Roses Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr (cw: drug use, coercion, probably things I don’t remember) For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis. Follow 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss actionable activism, romances with elves, unrequited love, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Fill out our listener survey and be entered to win a $50 gift card to an indie bookstore! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Feedback Night Boat to Tangier and That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry; The Heart’s Invisible Furies and Shuggie Bain (rec’d by Elizabeth) Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World and A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon (rec’d by Amber) The Guest List by Lucy Foley (rec’d by Becky) Books Discussed In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (tw: domestic abuse) Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons by Marilyn Hacker (sample poem) Uptown Thief by Aya de Leon Travelers Along The Way by Aminah Mae Safi Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim (tw: rape) Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood  Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju Bonus TV rec: Our Beloved Summer on Netflix side character, from Jamie Geekerella by Ashley Poston  The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad Elvish by SG Prince Witchmark by CL Polk (cw: PTSD, harm to women and children) For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. Follow 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss spies in romance, books like Our Flag Means Death, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. FEEDBACK Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Alison Pataki, and By Any Other Name by Lauren Kate BOOKS DISCUSSED American Marriage by Tayari Jones (tw: sexual assault, racism) The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson (cw: drug use, sexual assault, violence, racism) Books Like “Our Flag Means Death”: https://bookriot.com/our-flag-means-death-books/ On a Lee Shore by Elin Gregory In Deeper Waters by FT Lukens Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov, Scott Duane, et al The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (tw: child sexual abuse, human trafficking) Always Only You by Chloe Liese Gamechanger by LX Beckett (they/them) American War by Omar El Akkad Veronica Speedwell series by Deanna Raybourn Sarah MacLean’s Bareknuckle Bastards series Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé (cw: lynching, child abuse, sexual abuse) Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews Alyssa Cole’s Loyal League series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse. Content warnings: harm to children, graphic violence Follow 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jenn and guest Kelly Jensen discuss books about moving on, animal narrators, colors in fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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. Feedback Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade (rec’d by Sophie, seconded by Ariel, and thirded by Elizabeth) Books Discussed Joyful by Ingried Fetell Lee Light Years From Home by Mike Chen (cw: dementia in a parent, loss of a parent) Charlotte Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro Library of the Dead by TL Huchu (cw: harm to children, racist policing) The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa Post: https://bookriot.com/cats-in-japanese-fiction/ BEASTARS by Paru Itagaki The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu O Beautiful by Jung Yun Hell of a Book by Jason Mott The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan (cw death by suicide) A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass (cw: death of a pet) For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices