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✔ 1. A book that includes a road trip - The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
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✔ 2. A book involving archeology or an archeologist - The Curse of the Pharaohs - Elizabeth Peters
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✔ 3. A collection of any year's best short fiction or stories edited by a favorite author - Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology - Jeffery Deaver
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✔ 4. Setting is the Sugar Islands of the Caribbean pre-1920 - i.e. Barbados, Trinidad, Jamaica, . . . - River Sing Me Home - Eleanor Shearer
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✔ 5. A book with more vowels than consonants in the title - Amora: Stories - Natalia Borges Polesso
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✔ 6. A book by an author born in Africa - The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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✔ 7. A book with the word "room" in the title - The Cold Room - Jason N. LaVelle
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✔ 8. A book with a subtitle - A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea- Masaji Ishikawa
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✔ 9. Read or re-read a book by your favorite author - No Second Chance - Harlan Coben
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✔ 10. A book selected by any book club (in real life or online, whether or not you are a member) - What Have You Done? - Shari Lapena
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✔ 11. Read a celebrity memoir - Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too! - Chelsea Handler
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✔ 12. Read a book containing an index - The American Home Front: 1941-1942 - Allistair Cooke
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1. Read a book with a football related word in the title (catch, clock, down, fumble, game, goal, half, huddle, line, pass, play, player, quarter, time, yard, etc.)
✔ 2. Read a book about giving up a bad habit or overcoming an addiction - Of Women and Salt - Gabriela Garcia
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✔ 3. A book written by an Indigenous author - The Berry Pickers - Amanda Peters
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4. A book with "today" or "tonight" in the title
5. Give a disliked author another chance
6. Read a play
7. Read a book with an object made of metal on the cover.
✔ 8. Read a book you have borrowed from your local library. The Baker's Daughter - Sarah McCoy
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9. Read a graphic novel
10. Read a book that is set in a country that borders your own.
✔ 11. Read a book with a title beginning with O - The Other Family - Loretta Nyhan
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12. A book published in the year you joined Goodreads
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✔ 1. Read a book with a paranormal element like a werewolf, witch, zombie, vampire, etc. - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna
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✔ 2. Read a book from the 2024 Play Book Tag Top Ten list. - Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
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✔ 3. Read a One Hit Wonder who published only one successful book) - Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
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✔ The Hidden Staircase4. Reread a chapter book that you originally read under the age of 18. - Carolyn Keene
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✔ 5. Read a book set in a National Park - Track of the Cat - Nevada Barr
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✔ 6. Read a classic - A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
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✔ 7. Read a book by an author you've been meaning to try, but never have read before - Five Survive - Holly Jackson
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✔ 8. A book set on a spaceship - Across the Universe - Beth Revis
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✔ 9. Read a book that won the Bram Stoker Award. - The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
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✔ 10. A book that involves genetics, heredity, or inheritance - The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
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✔ 11. A book written by an Indigenous author - Winter Counts - David Heska Wanbli Weiden
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✔ 12. Read a book that has been translated to English - At the End of the Matinee - Keiichiro Hirani
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✔ 1. A travel book - I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away- Bill Bryson
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✔ 2. A book with a plot including a circus or carnival - Something Wicked This Way Comes- Ray Bradbury
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✔ 3. Read a nonfiction book about food and or food culture - Yes, Chef- Marcus Samuelsson
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✔4. Read a book related to the Tudors - The Player King -Avi
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✔ 5. A book featuring a female athlete - One Life - Megan Rapinoe
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✔ 6. A book originally published under a pen name - Dead on Target - M. B. Beaton
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✔ 7. A book whose title contains an onomatopoeia - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Ian Fleming
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✔ 8. A book set in New York - Like Mother, Like Daughter - Kimberly McCreight
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✔ 9. The title is one past tense word - Schooled - Ted Fox
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✔ 10. Read a book set in a different hemisphere than where you live - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone = Benjamin Stevenson
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✔ 11. Read a book set primarily in a hospital - Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling - Lucy Frank
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✔ 12. Read a book set in 1925 or earlier - Little Souls - Sandra Dallas
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List #3
✔ 1. Book with a family tree - The Cousins - Karen M. McManus
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✔ 2. Book with a tree on the cover. - The Killing Plains - Sherry Rankin
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✔ 3. A book by a BIPOC author. - Yellowface - R. F. Kuang
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✔ 4. A book that fits the tag of hip, hippy or hipster - On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer - Rick Steves]
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✔ 5. Select one of your favorite authors and read their debut book - Play Dead
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✔ 6. Read a book set in your dream holiday destination - Homecoming - Kate Morton
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✔ 7. A book that has both a prologue and an epilogue - Cover Your Eyes - Mary Burton
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✔ 8. Read a book set in Minnesota - The Life We Bury - Allen Eskens
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✔ 9. A book that's won an award (of any kind) - Hidden Pictures - Jason Rekulak
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✔ 10. Read a book written by an author whose initials are sequential in the alphabet. eg: Amy Brown, Quinn Russell - Famous - Blake Crouch
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✔ 11. A book whose title contains an onomatopoeia - Bang! - Sharon G. Flake
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✔ 12. A fiction book based on a true story - Fire from the Rock - Sharon Draper
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List #4
✔ 1. A book by a Nobel Prize winner - Dear Life - Alice Munro
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✔ 2. A book you have always intended to read but never gotten around to it - Blind Justice - William Bernhardt
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✔ 3. Read a book with type of portal to an alternate world - Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire
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✔ 4. Read A book on the Tournament of Books longlist (any year). - Dream Girl - Laura Lippman
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✔ 5. Read a book set in a National park. - Ill Wind - Nevada Barr
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✔ 6. Read a book where one of the main characters is in military service - The Women - Kristin Hannah
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✔ 7. Read an "alternative" book (alternate history, alternative world, alternate identity, or alternative lifestyles) - The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
✔ 8 Read a fiction bestseller set in the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s. - Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll
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✔ 9. Read a book where the main character shares part of your name - Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons
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✔ 10. Read a book that has won an award (of any kind) - The Comfort of Ghosts - Jacqueline Winspear
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✔ 11. Read a book where the title is a pun or other play on words - Murder Over Easy - Rosie A. Point
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✔ 12. Read a book set in a country with a coast on the Mediterranean Sea - Beautiful Animals - Lawrence Osborne
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