Tattooed Punk With A Heart Of Gold Get Booked

Amanda and Jenn discuss Iranian literature, light-hearted reads, favorite picture books, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.
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Books Discussed
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin
The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts (tw: suicide)
Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai (tw: abusive parent)
Shepherd by Catherine Jinks (tw: harm to children and, like, every animal possible)
The Broken Earth Trilogy (The Fifth Season #1) by NK Jemisin (tw: so much harm to children, forced breeding)
The Immortals of Tehran by Alireza Taheri Araghi (tw: suicide)
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover
Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara (tw: harm to children)
Want by Cindy Pon
The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland (tw: child abuse)
Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik (tw: racism, religious intolerance, internalized fat-shaming)
Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima
Thank You, Octopus by Darren Farrell
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