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Book genre musings and recommendations

Season 1, Ep. 4

In today's episode I break down the way in which I view genres for both my fiction collection and how we do it at school. I also recommend the following books:

  1. What we saw by Aaron Hartzler (TW - sexual violence)
  2. Salt to the sea by Ruta Sepetys 
  3. The extraordinaries by TJ Klune
  4. Cinder from The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
  5. Warcross by Marie Lu
  6. Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
  7. Navigating the stars from The Sentinels of the Galaxy by Maria V Snyder
  8. These Broken Stars from the Starbound Trilogy by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
  9. Illuminae from the Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Just in case you were interested in learning more about Hugh Herr, here is a link to his TED Talk profile and videos: https://www.ted.com/speakers/hugh_herr 

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