Amanda and Jenn discuss heroines in high fantasy, nonbinary reads, Swedish fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Survived by Her Longtime Companion by Chris Paynter (rec’d by Wynnde)

Montmorency series by Eleanor Updale, Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone and The Woman in White, In the Woods by Tana French (rec’d by Miranda)

The Living by Annie Dillard (rec’d by Katie)

Books Discussed

The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F. C. Yee

Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara (Chronicles of Elantra #1) (tw: harm to children, graphic violence)

No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll

Dreadnought by April Daniels (tw: transphobia, emotional abuse)

Annex by Rich Larson (tw transphobia, deadnaming, mild-ish body horror)

The Outside by Ada Hoffmann (tw: body horror, self-harm)

The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

Daughters of the Storm by Kim Wilkins (tw: harm to children)

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (tw self-harm, sexual assault)

Queer Magic by Tomás Prower

Camilla Lackberg

Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck (tw: body horror, issues of consent, suicide)

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (tw: harm to children)

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