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Young Adult, New Adult, Mystery AND Romance

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On today's episode, Adam is joined by frequent friends of the pod (and 2/3rds of the 3-headed Sass Monster) Andrea and Christina. The three of them hand out bunches of book recommendations that would best be categorized as falling under Young Adult, New Adult, Mystery AND/OR Romance. They talk diverse books, fan fiction, Andrea's birthday and the fact that since the birth of her child she's been reading some DARK novels.

Books mentioned on this episode:

The Arrangement by Sarah Dunn

Hush by John Hart

The Last Child By John Hart

One of us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

Magic City by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Pigeon Man by Joel Edward Stein

The Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick

The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

The Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel

Big Little Lies by Lane Moriarty

The 6 Tudor Queens series by Allison Weir

The Clipped Wings Series by Helena Hunting

My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbelestier

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton

Fragile by Jandra Sutton

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich

And the Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich

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