Reading Us the (Book) Riot Act: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 15

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Amanda Nelson, managing editor of Book Riot and host of BR's own book recommendation podcast, joins Frank and Gwen to discuss book recommendations. (What else?)

What We're Reading Now

This Is Your Brain on Parasites by Kathleen McAuliffe (and the sheep parasites that can live in ants):

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

The Dig by John Preston

Harry Potter audiobooks, narrated by Jim Dale

Michael Grant: the Gone series and Front Lines

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson

Ava Gardner: "Love Is Nothing" by Lee Server

Mogambo

Hot Topix

Lois Duncan:

• Book Riot essay about her books teaching the author to confront fear
• New Yorker essay
• The Face on the Milk Carton  (oops! this one is by Caroline B. Cooney, another classic YA horror writer... )
• I Know What You Did Last Summer
• Much more of her work available to be checked out from NYPL

Guest Star

Amanda Nelson, the managing editor of Book Riot, and her podcast, Get Booked

Edelweiss

What BR contributor Swapna read on her trip to Antarctica

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo (and a BR story about its cover)

Amanda's most-recommended books:

• The Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
• Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

Gwen's most-recommended books:

• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
• Missoula by Jon Krakauer

Anything but Books

Amanda: Murder, She WroteFrank: The Mirror Crack'd with Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, and Kim NovakGwen: Maggie Smith's viral poem, "Good Bones," and more of her poetry

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