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Summer Reading Challenge
Expert Level

The goal is to accomplish the tasks within the months they are featured:

June Reads:
√ Take Pride – The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 6: Imperial Phase, Part 2
√ Into the Great Wide Open – At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe
√ It’s the End of the World – Cloud Atlas
√ School’s Out for Summer - Good Morning, Midnight
√ Sick Day – The Purloined Letter
√ Hook ‘Em – Just So Stories
√ Sports-a-holic – The Art of Fielding
√ Dear Penpal – Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
√ Father Knows Best – Infinite Jest
√ Campfire Story – Zofloya
√ Ocean Blue – Billy Budd, Sailor


July Reads:
Get Your Grill On – The Faerie Handbook: An Enchanting Compendium of Literature, Lore, Art, Recipes, and Projects
√ Backyard BBQ – Mansfield Park
Forefathers – The Federalist Papers
√ The Colors of Summer – Lab Girl
√ Red, White, and Blue – The Red and the Black
√ Funny Bone – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
√ Embrace Your Inner Geek – So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know
√ Sun, Moon, and Stars – The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
I Feel a Breeze – Read a book that takes place at a nudist colony or features nudists
√ Beach Bum - The Essex Serpent
√ Sand Between My Toes - The Sea


August Reads:
Let’s Get It On – read a book that features falling in or out of love
√ It’s 12 O’clock Somewhere – Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
√ Stranded – Circe
One and Done – Read a book that you can finish in one day
Lucky to Have You – Read a book that you picked up at a library sale or thrift store
√ Girl Power – The Chaos of Longing
√ Life is a Highway – Big Sur
√ Time of Our Lives – Howl's Moving Castle
Memories – Read a book that you bought while on vacation


Tasks to read during any month that are designed to stretch your reading comfort zones:

Won’t Be Long – A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
√ Poet at Heart – Lullabies
You Have a Funny Accent – Read a book that was translated from another language
Read the World - Midnight's Children
Diversify Yourself – Read a book by an author of color
My What Big Teeth You Have – Read a book that puts a spin on a well-known fairy tale
√ High Noon – Vengeance Road
The Future is Bright –
The Book is Always Better – Read a book that is becoming a movie this year
√ TBRing It – 5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter
Unshelve it – Ulysses
Childhood Reboot – To Be or Not To Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure
Listen to Me –

Some of those sound like good reading topics

Thanks, i try to pick good books.

I just finished Infinite Jest. What a bear of a book.