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Amanda and Jenn recommend fairy tales for grown-ups, examinations of marriage (with rage-filled lady protagonists), and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Live and the Start Here Giveaway. 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. Books Discussed! Where’d You Go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi Gemma Bovary by Posy Simmonds Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel by Anya Ulinich Jem and the Holograms Vol. 1: Showtime Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust, translated by Kim Thompson A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Think of England by KJ Charles Edinburgh by Alexander Chee, trigger warning for child molestation The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Cat Valente The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho Get in Trouble by Kelly Link Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.S. Duffy Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes I Married You For Happiness by Lily Tuck The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (trigger warning for domestic violence) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices