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Adult Summer Reading 2017: Book BINGO help
Book Bingo Challenge
Thank you for participating in our Book Bingo Challenge! It is just that - intended to be challenging, but if you get stuck, here are many resources for book lists, links to our catalog, etc.
We hope to get you reading a little bit outside your comfort zone, but most importantly, HAVE FUN!
A Book about Plants or Nature
Click here for many more BOOKS ABOUT PLANTS.
Click here for more books about NATURE.
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Wicked Plants by ISBN: 9781565126831 -
The Botany of Desire by ISBN: 9780375501296 -
The Soul of an Octopus by ISBN: 9781451697711 -
The Signature of All Things by ISBN: 9780670024858
A Book with a Face on the Cover
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1Q84 by ISBN: 9780307593313 -
Version Control by ISBN: 9780307907592 -
Rome by ISBN: 9780307268440 -
The Girls by ISBN: 9780812998603
A Book Featuring Travel
For many more books featuring travel, CLICK HERE.
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On the Road by ISBN: 9780143120285 -
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Blood River by ISBN: 9780802118776 -
The Annotated Huckleberry Finn by ISBN: 9780393020397
A Book of Poetry
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Autobiography of Red by ISBN: 9780375401336 -
The Abridged History of Rainfall by ISBN: 9781944211264 -
The Last Vispo Anthology by ISBN: 9781606996263 -
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by ISBN: 9781555977412 -
Blackacre by ISBN: 9781555977504
A Book with a Latino/a Main Character
CLICK HERE for more books with Latina/o characters.
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This Is How You Lose Her by ISBN: 9781594487361 -
The Story of My Teeth by ISBN: 9781566894098 -
The Book of Unknown Americans by ISBN: 9780385350846
A Book with a Non-Human Character
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Big Questions by ISBN: 9781770460478 -
Flatland by ISBN: 9780691025254 -
Mort(e) by ISBN: 9781616954277 -
Animal Farm by ISBN: 9780679420392 -
The Bees by ISBN: 9780062331151 -
Interview with the Vampire by ISBN: 9780345337665
Current Events
We have lots of book on all current event topics from multiple points of view. To get some ideas, check out these lists:
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/current-events
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The World Is Flat by ISBN: 9780374292799 -
Just Mercy by ISBN: 9780812994520 -
Red Line by ISBN: 9781442255708 -
The Home That Was Our Country by ISBN: 9781568585321 -
Trump Revealed by ISBN: 9781501155772
A Graphic Novel or Comic Book
For our very extensive list of graphic novels for adult (owned by the library) CLICK HERE.
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Persepolis by Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran's last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.ISBN: 9780375422300 -
Asterios Polyp by Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this “escape” really about? As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is.ISBN: 9780307377326 -
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Meet Charlie Chan Hock Chye. Now in his early 70s, Chan has been making comics in his native Singapore since 1954, when he was a boy of 16. As he looks back on his career over five decades, we see his stories unfold before us in a dazzling array of art styles and forms, their development mirroring the evolution in the political and social landscape of his homeland and of the comic book medium itself.ISBN: 9781101870693 -
Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by ISBN: 9781770460201 -
A Banned Book
For more information about banned books, Banned Books Week, censorship, and an extensive list of banned and challenged books, CLICK HERE.
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To Kill a Mockingbird by ISBN: 9780061743528 -
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by ISBN: 9780545069670 -
The Handmaid's Tale by ISBN: 9780385490818 -
Nineteen Eighty-Four by ISBN: 9780679417392
A Book featuring MAGIC!
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All the Birds in the Sky by ISBN: 9780765379948 -
The Queen of the Tearling by ISBN: 9780062290366 -
Fooling Houdini by ISBN: 9780061766213 -
The Magicians by ISBN: 9780452296299
A Bestseller
The best sellers don't have to be current best sellers, but if you want some ideas, here is the link to the list for this week.
A Book Set in a Faraway Place
This category can be books about any faraway place - real, imagined, or extraterrestrial. Travel to someplace interesting!
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by ISBN: 9780345391803 -
A Thousand Splendid Suns by ISBN: 9781594489501 -
In a Sunburned Country by ISBN: 9780767903851 -
The Martian by ISBN: 9780804139021
A Book Written by a Person of Color
For an extensive list of other authors of color, CLICK HERE.
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White Teeth by At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. Set against London’s racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence.ISBN: 9780375703867 -
Delicious Foods by Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she disappears without a trace. Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old Eddie, now left behind in a panic-stricken search for her, Darlene has been lured away with false promises of a good job and a rosy life. In Delicious Foods, James Hannaham tells the gripping story of three unforgettable characters: a mother, her son, and the drug that threatens to destroy them. Through Darlene's haunted struggle to reunite with Eddie, through the efforts of both to triumph over those who would enslave them, and through the irreverent and mischievous voice of the drug that narrates Darlene's travails, Hannaham's daring and shape-shifting prose infuses this harrowing experience with grace and humor.ISBN: 9780316284943 -
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukoe-the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love.ISBN: 9781594489587
A Book that is More than 1 1/2" Thick
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Jerusalem by ISBN: 9781631491344 -
Infinite Jest by ISBN: 9780316920049 -
The Goldfinch by ISBN: 9780316055437
A Book Based on a True Story
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The Paris Wife by Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness--until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group--the fabled "Lost Generation"--that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.ISBN: 9780345521309 -
Dreamland by From a steamship, hundreds of immigrants strain for a glimpse of the promised land. As they approach, they see New York being consumed by flames. Their despair quickly turns to amazement as they realise that the searing flames are really the lights of Coney Islands' Dreamland Amusement Park.ISBN: 9780060193096 -
In Cold Blood by On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy.ISBN: 9780679745587
An Audiobook
These audiobooks are particularly captivating.
Check out the following lists for more listening ideas:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliafurlan/books-make-everything-better
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Lincoln in the Bardo by ISBN: 9780553397574 -
Just Kids by ISBN: 9780062109385 -
The Diviners by ISBN: 9780449808733
