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Amanda and Jenn recommend books about space, modern Westerns, and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Burning Glass by Kathryn Purdie and A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro. 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! Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Commander Hadfield Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson The Mercury 13 by Martha Ackmann Everything Leads to You by Nina Lacour The Superheroes Union: Dynama by Ruth Diaz (rec’d by Amanda Diehl) My Real Children by Jo Walton Safe Harbor by Radclyffe Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor Mort(e) by Robert Repino The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (rec’d by Alison) Hanzai Japan edited by Haikasoru  (rec’d by Rachel Cordasco) An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro Memories of Silk and Straw by Junichi Saga The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt The Son by Phillip Meyer Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart True Grit by Charles Portis Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko by Leslie Marmon Silko Jenny Han The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda Preeti’s YA recs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices