Amanda and Jenn discuss the Singularity, Russian nonfiction, and novels about platonic friendships in this week’s episode of Get Booked.
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Books Discussed
Katie Macbride’s post: Required Reading for Understanding WTF Is Happening In Russia
Molly Wetta’s post!: A Russian History Reading List
Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Bela Shayevich
The Man Without a Face by Masha Gessen
Pushkin’s Children by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambell
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky, translated by Tim Mohr
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill
I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku (rec’d by Kristen)
To Be a Machine by Mark O’Connell
Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling
Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon-Silko
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Anything by Louise Erdrich (Plague of Doves)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (with caveat)
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen
Jackaby series by William Ritter
Words in the Air, edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton
Ausma Zehanat Khan’s Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty series (The Unquiet Dead)
How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford
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