Protest Knitting

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. Subscribe to 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. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback The Pirate Cruncher by Johnny Duddle and anything by Isabella Bird (rec’d by Mel) Books Discussed 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices