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Get Booked

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Get Booked is a weekly show of personalized book recommendations.

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Bromance on the High Seas

Amanda and Jenn recommend excellent biographies, books for those who have lost a dog, and more on this week’s Get Booked!

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Books Discussed!

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Pandemic by Sonia Shah

Valerie’s new nature books post

anything by Annie Dillard

The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James

Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

John Adams by David McCullough

The Black Count by Tom Reiss

Muhammad Ali: Through the Eyes of the World edited by Mark Collings

Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead series

Neapolitann series by Elena Ferrante trans Ann Goldstein

Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy Trilogy (Sea of Poppies is #1)

Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin (Master & Commander is #1)

Storify list

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Agorafabulous!! by Sara Benincasa

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Mark Doty’s Dog Years (rec’d by Rebecca Hussey)

Merle’s Door by Ted Kerasote

A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff 

Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton, recommended by Liberty Hardy

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