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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