The Next Best Book Club discussion

Beginner level- Summer related tasks

• Into the great wide open:
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
• Get your grill on (summer recipes/outdoor summer activities):
The Happy Pear Recipes for Happiness by David & Stephen Flynn
• The colour of summer (book with yellow green or sandy cover):
Circe by Madeline Miller
• Beach Bum (typical beach read): Well not really sure what a typical beach read is, for me it's a book I really want to read so...Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristof
• Sand between my toes (takes place in or around a beach or ocean):
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Ocean blue (takes place on the water):
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Hook'em (features fishing or fisherman):
The Mermaid by Christina Henry
• Sports-a-holic (features popular summer sport):
Barbarian days a surfing life by William Finnegan
• Campfire story (scares the bejesus out of you)
The Shining by Stephen King
• One and done (a book you can finish in one day):
The princess diarest by Carrie Fisher

Tasks to Stretch your comfort zone

• Let's get it on (features falling in or out of love):
Rebecca by Daphne du maurier
• Take Pride (LGBTQIA author or character):
We are okay by Nina LaCour
• Read the world (about country/culture not your own):
A river in darkness by Masaji Ishikawa
• Diversify yourself (by an author of colour):
The hate you give by Angie Thomas
• You have a lovely accent (translated from another language)
Percepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Won't be long (short stories/essays):
Men without Women by Haruki Murakami
• Poet at heart (book of poems):
Love and misadventure by Lang Leav
• My what big teeth you have (spin on a well-known fairy tale):
Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy by multiple authors and booktubers
• High noon (classic/comtempory western):
Bury my heart at wounded knee by Dee Brown
• TBRing it (from bottom of TBR pile):
The wild road by Gabriel King
• Unshelve it (sitting on your shelf for a while):
Days without end by Sebastian Barry
• Childhood reboot (choose-your-own adventure novel):
Wildflower girl (children of the famine # 2) by Marita Conlon-McKenna

Good luck my quite pages.... You have already chosen books for all categories. Amazing. I m still missing few...

Thanks Charu. It took me a while to search for books that might fit the challenge and still be something I was interested in reading. Goodluck with your challenge!

Enjoy!!! I've most of the Happy Pear cook books and always checking their Youtube channel too. Most recipes are very doable and full of flavours