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ATY Summer Reading Challenge 2021
June 1-August 31, 2021

JUNE
4/4 as of July 10!

1. Start of Summer
a. Read a happy book.
➰b. Read a book published in June, July, or August.
Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland #2) by Anthony Horowitz
June 29 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
June Buddy Read
c. Read a book from one of the following lists:
- Beach Read Royalty Recommends Summer Books
That Summer by Jennifer Weiner
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient #3) by Helen Hoang
Middlemarch by George Eliot
A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
Sleeping Bear: A Thriller by Connor Sullivan
The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson
Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
Wings of Ebony by J. Elle
- Readers' Hottest Books of Summer
The Portrait of a Mirror by A. Natasha Joukovsky
We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
Falling by T.J. Newman
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy
Appleseed by Matt Bell
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot #1) by Becky Chambers
House of Sticks by Ly Tran
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford by Clint Smith
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary
*- Armchair Traveling: Books Set in Every U.S. State

2. June Birthday: Octavia E. Butler
➰a. Read a book whose main character is a Black woman.
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #16) by Alexander McCall Smith
July 10 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
b. Read a science fiction book.
Speaker for the Dead
July Buddy Read
c. Read a winner of the Hugo Award.

3. Pride Month
➰a. Read a book with at least 5 different colors of the rainbow on the cover.
Moon Pie by Simon Mason
July 6 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
b. Read a book featuring an LGBTQIA+ protagonist (not side character).
c. Read a book written by an author who was nominated for the Lambda Award.
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
August Popsugar Monthly Group Read
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Death Before Dessert: A Vanessa Harrington Cozy Mystery by A.E. Radley
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho

4. Set Sail
➰a. Read a book that starts with a letter in SAILING.
Skyward (Skyward #1) by Brandon Sanderson
June 20 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
b. Read a book with a boat on the cover.
c. Read a book that takes place completely on an island.

JULY
4/4 as of July 17!

1. Halfway there!
a. Read a book with a number in the title.
The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding by Sarah Burns
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America by Josephine Donovan
➰b. Read a book that is divided into multiple parts (rather than, or in addition to, chapters).
Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross #1) by James Patterson
June 13 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
c. Read a book featuring twin characters.

2. July Birthday: Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller is an American novelist, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe. Miller spent ten years writing The Song of Achilles while she worked as a Latin and Greek teacher. Madeline Miller was born on July 24, 1978.

➰a. Read a book whose author's initials are found in MADELINE MILLER.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
July 17 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
b. Read a retelling of a myth, fable, or fairytale.
c. Read a book nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction.
Bel Canto

3. It's Winter Down South
a. Read a romance book.
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
b. Read a book with snow on the cover.
➰c. Read a book whose title starts with a letter in FROSTY THE SNOWMAN.
Monogamy by Sue Miller
June 6 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

4. Take a Dip
➰a. Read a book whose title starts with a letter in OCEAN.
Ender in Exile (Ender's Saga #1.2) by Orson Scott Card
July 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
July Buddy Read
b. Read a book whose author initials can be found in TAKE A DIP.
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
c. Read a book featured on one of these lists:
- 34 of the Best Beach Reads to Help You Escape
- 2021 Summer Reading List: 48 of the Best Books for Adults, Teens, and Kids
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard
The Islanders by Mary Alice Monroe
- The Best Beach Reads of Summer 2021

AUGUST
4/4 as of July 11!

1. Back to School
a. Read a book by an author who is new-to-you.
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
➰b. Read a YA book
First Meetings in Ender's Universe (Ender's Saga #0.5) by Orson Scott Card
June 24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
c. Read a book often tested on the AP Literature exam, as found on this list.
✨*Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
✨*House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
✨*Frankenstein: The 1818 TextMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
*Things Fall Apart (African Trilogy #1) by Chinua Achebe
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
*Sula by Toni Morrison
*Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
*The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
*The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction by Stephen Crane
*Push by Sapphire
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
*O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Native Son by Richard Wright
*Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
*Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
The Middle Passage by V.S. Naipaul
*Middlemarch by George Eliot

2. August Birthday: John Green
➰a. Read a contemporary book.
Dear Martin (Dear Martin #1) by Nic Stone
June 13 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
b. Read a stand-alone novel (not part of a series).
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
c. Read a book nominated for the Printz Award.
The Sun Is Also a Star
*The Hate You Give
Long Way Down
*Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
*Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
*An Abundance of Katherines

3. Summer Reading
a. Read the newest book by a favorite author.
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
➰b. Read the next book in a series you've already started.
Origin (Robert Langdon #5) by Dan Brown
July 11 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
c. Read a book published in 2021 that you've been looking forward to.
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

4. Jump on a Plane
a. Read an adventure book.
Origin
➰b. Read a book set in a country you've never visited.
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax #2) by Dorothy Gilman
Turkey
June 26 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
c. Read a book featuring a character who travels to multiple countries.