A Huge Crimey Thing

Amanda and Jenn discuss books set in the Caribbean, low-stakes fun, blind dates with sci-fi, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.
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The Backup by Erica Kudisch (rec’d by April)
American Pop by Snowden Wright (rec’d by Tori)
The Love Songs of WEB Dubois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (rec’d by Siobhan)
Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of Montecello, Morgan Jerkins’s Wandering in Strange Lands, and Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (rec’d by Gina)
Books Discussed
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
Machinehood by S.B. Divya (cw: death of a child, unwanted pregnancy)
His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard (cw: racial violence and slurs, harm to children)
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto
Heroine Complex series by Sarah Kuhn
When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby (cw: violence against women and children) (rec’d by Annika)
Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim (tw rape, ethnic war)
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan
The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite
Dominicana by Angie Cruz (tw domestic violence)
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, my new obsession (out March 15 but i don’t care)
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