Jenn and guest Charity Yoro give poetry recs, holiday gift picks, Erik Larson comps, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.
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Books Discussed
Daughters of Fire by Tom Peek
Kaui Hart Hemmings and Kawai Strong Washburn
This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
The Black Count by Tom Reiss
Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (CW: sex, drugs, rock-n-roll content)
Anne Carson (An Autobiography of Red)
Carmen Maria Machado (In the Dream House, cw: domestic abuse)
Ocean Vuong (On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous)
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Londoners by Craig Taylor
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other)
Kraken by China Mieville
You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened by Arisa White
Directed by Desire by June Jordan
Autostraddle post:
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The Witch Boy series by Molly Knox Ostertag
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow
One Hundred Days by Alice Pung (cw: emotional and physical abuse)
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