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Get Booked

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Get Booked is a weekly show of personalized book recommendations.

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Grief, Translations, and Wacky British Fantasy

Welcome to Episode 10! Jenn Northington is back as my permanent co-host as we take the show weekly! *confetti cannon* This week we’re talking books to read after losing someone to suicide, modern works in translation, and more.

This episode is sponsored by The Lady’s Command by Stephanie Laurens and The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean.

For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.


Books Discussed on the Show!

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson

A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Nick Harkaway (The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, Tigerman)

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

anything Christopher Moore (Dirty Job is my personal favorite)

The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan

Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekback

The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra

The Merman by Carl-Johan Vallgren

The Mersault Investigation by Kamel Daoud

The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (and anything else from New Directions)

anything Natsuo Kirino and Cixin Liu

Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodische

When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams

Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Get in Trouble by Kelly Link

The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman

Sarah Waters–Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith

Drood by Dan Simmons

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea

The Strangler Vine by MJ Carter

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