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Adult Summer Reading 2018: 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 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
A Book with Lots of Characters
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by ISBN: 9780060929794 -
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by ISBN: 9780590353403 -
The Stand by ISBN: 9780385199575 -
A Game of Thrones by ISBN: 9780553381689
A Debut
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There There by ISBN: 9780525520375 -
Girls Burn Brighter by ISBN: 9781250074256 -
What We Lose by ISBN: 9780735221710 -
Everything Here Is Beautiful by ISBN: 9780735221963 -
The Astonishing Color of After by ISBN: 9780316463997
A Book in Translation
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The Story of My Teeth by ISBN: 9781566894098 -
My Brilliant Friend by ISBN: 9781609450786 -
The Door by ISBN: 9781590177716 -
Kafka on the Shore by ISBN: 9781400043668
A Book in Verse
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The Crossover by ISBN: 9780544107717 -
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by ISBN: 9780385535212 -
Brown Girl Dreaming by ISBN: 9780399252518 -
Long Way Down by ISBN: 9781481438254 -
Let Them Eat Chaos by ISBN: 9781632868770
A Book about Food or Drink
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The Cooking Gene by ISBN: 9780062379290 -
Sweetbitter by ISBN: 9781101875940 -
Kitchen Confidential by ISBN: 9781582340821 -
Like Water for Chocolate by ISBN: 9780385420167
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:
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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 -
When They Call You a Terrorist by ISBN: 9781250171085
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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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by ISBN: 9781606999592 -
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
A Book About a Musician
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A Visit from the Goon Squad by ISBN: 9780307592835 -
Just Kids by ISBN: 9780066211312 -
High Fidelity by ISBN: 9781573220163 -
Bellweather Rhapsody by ISBN: 9780544129917
A Book Set in Africa
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Half of a Yellow Sun by ISBN: 9781400044160 -
The Poisonwood Bible by ISBN: 9780060175405 -
Under the Udala Trees by ISBN: 9780544003446 -
Cutting for Stone by ISBN: 9780375414497
A Book with a Female Character Over 60
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Olive Kitteridge by ISBN: 9781400062089 -
The Banyan Tree by ISBN: 9781559705110 -
The Blind Assassin by ISBN: 9780385475723 -
Our Souls at Night by ISBN: 9781101875896 -
An Unnecessary Woman by ISBN: 9780802122148
A Book that Features a Library
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The Historian by ISBN: 9780316011778 -
The Shadow of the Wind by ISBN: 9781594200106 -
The Uncommon Reader by ISBN: 9780374280963 -
The Borrower by ISBN: 9780670022816
A Book Written by a Person of Color
For an extensive list of other authors of color, CLICK HERE.
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Sing, Unburied, Sing by ISBN: 9781501126062 -
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 Microhistory
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The Emperor of All Maladies by ISBN: 9781439107959 -
Gulp by ISBN: 9780393081572 -
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by ISBN: 9780802714473 -
Banana by ISBN: 9781594630385
A Book with a Monster in It
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The Monsters of Templeton by ISBN: 9781401322250 -
All the Birds, Singing by ISBN: 9780307907769 -
Meddling Kids by ISBN: 9780385541992 -
The Essex Serpent by ISBN: 9780062666376 -
A Monster Calls by ISBN: 9780763655594
A Book with an LGBT character or author
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Less by ISBN: 9780316316125 -
The Song of Achilles by ISBN: 9780062060617 -
Tales of the City by ISBN: 9780060924805 -
Marriage of a Thousand Lies by ISBN: 9781616957902 -
Juliet Takes a Breath by ISBN: 9781626012516
A Book with an Animal on the Cover
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The Secret Life of Cows by ISBN: 9780525557319 -
Furiously Happy by ISBN: 9781250077004 -
Magpie Murders by ISBN: 9780062645227 -
Stephen Florida by ISBN: 9781566894647
Science Fiction
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The Three-Body Problem by ISBN: 9780765377067 -
Station Eleven by ISBN: 9780385353304 -
Annihilation by ISBN: 9780374104092 -
Sleeping Giants by ISBN: 9781101886694
