Episode 2: Genre deep dive, part 2

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Episode 2, part 2

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Show shout-outs (in order of appearance):

Fantasy/YA (young adult) (0:01:45)

  • Red Rising Saga (Red Rising; Golden Son; Morning Star; Iron Gold; Dark Age; and, Light Bringer) by Pierce Brown

  • ACOTAR (A Court of Thorns and Roses) (A Court of Thorns and Roses; A Court of Mist and Fury; A Court of Wings and Ruin; A Court of Frost and Starlight; and, A Court of Silver Flames) by Sarah J Maas

  • Crescent City duology (House of Earth and Blood, and, House of Sky and Breath) by Sarah J Maas

  • Throne of Glass series (The Assassin and the Pirate Lord; The Assassin and the Healer; The Assassin and the Desert; The Assassin and the Underworld; The Assassin and the Empire; Throne of Glass; Crown of Midnight; Heir of Fire; Queen of Shadows; Empire of Storms; Tower of Dawn; and, Kingdom of Ash) by Sarah J Maas

  • The Inheritance Games series (The Inheritance Games; The Hawthorne Legacy; The Final Gambit; and, The Brothers Hawthorne) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

  • The Chronicles of Narnia series (The Magician’s Nephew; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His Boy; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Trader; The Silver Chair; and, The Last Battle) by C. S. Lewis

  • @Ben Barnes

  • Shadow and Bone trilogy (Shadow and Bone; Siege and Storm; and, Ruin and Rising) by Leigh Bardugo

  • Six of Crows duology (Six of Crows, and, Crooked Kingdom) by Leigh Bardugo

  • Shadow and Bone on Netflix

  • His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; and, The Amber Spyglass) by Philip Pullman

Historical Fiction (0:21:47)

  • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

  • The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

  • Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

  • “DNF” = did not finish

  • Home Front by Kristin Hannah

  • The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

  • The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

  • The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

  • The Mothers by Brit Bennett

  • Circe by Madeline Miller

  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

  • The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

  • The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

  • The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray

  • Freedman/Johnson trilogy (Yellow Crocus; Mustard Seed; and, Golden Poppies) by Laila Ibrahim

Horror (0:34:00)

  • The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

  • Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  • Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

General Fiction (0:42:00)

  • Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

  • Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau

  • Beartown by Fredrik Bachman

  • The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

  • Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

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