Book Riot - The Podcast8 Touko 2017

#208: Moms, Dads, and Grad Recommendation Show, Part 1

Jeff and Rebecca answer listener recommendation requests for summer holidays and graduation. This episode is sponsored by: Woman No. 17 by Edan Lepucki Post Grad by Caroline Kitchener Out of the Box by Jemma Westing Books recommended in this show: The Wangs vs. The World by Jade Chang The Leavers by Lisa Ko The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford THE LIBRARY AT MOUNT CHAR by Scott Hawkins An Untamed State by Roxane Gay Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam’ I Crawl Through It by A.S. King The Martian by Andy Weir The Bone Street Rumba series by Daniel Jose Older IS EVERYONE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME? By Mindy Kaling OUR MAN IN HAVANA by Graham Greene Who Thought This Was a Good Idea by Alyssa Mastromonaco Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy Self-Inflicted Wounds by Aisha Tyler AND THEN THERE WERE NONE by Agatha Christie Endless Night by Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie Penance by Kanae Minato Good as Gone by Amy Gentry H IS FOR HAWK by Helen Macdonald THE ELEPHANT WHISPERER by Lawrence Anthony The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James Finding Beauty in a Broken World CALL THE MIDWIFE by Jennifer Werth Cutting for Stone by Abraham Vergese Dancer by Colum McCann I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong Neurotribes by Steve Silberman We Gon’ Be Alright by Jeff Chang See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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