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== 2024 Reading Challenge Categories ==
=== Read at least one book from each of the following categories (one category per book): ===
# A Ghost Story
# A Holocaust Book
# A Book with a Female Lead
# A Memoir about Drug Addiction
# A Book Nominated for the Booker Prize
# A Book Translated into English
# A Science Fiction Book
# A Banned Book
# A Literary Classic
# A Graphic Novel
# A Magical Realism Book
# A Book Obtained for Free

== Blazey's 2024 Reading List ==
=== Goal: 50 Books, Including Challenge Categories ===
# ''The Street of a Thousand Blossoms'' by Gail Tsukiyama (Category #12: A Book Obtained for Free)
# ''China Room'' by Sunjeev Sahota (Category #5: A Book Nominated for the Booker Prize)
# ''Tomb of Sand'' by Geetanjali Shree (Category #3: A Book with a Female Lead)
# ''Heaven'' by Mieko Kawakami (Category #6: A Book Translated into English)
# ''Rethinking College Student Development Theory Using Critical Frameworks'' edited by Elisa S. Abes, Susan R. Jones, and D-L Stewart
# ''Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities'' by Craig Steven Wilder
# ''The Book Eaters'' by Sunyi Dean
# ''The Buddha in the Attic: A Novel'' by Julie Otsuka
# ''Critical Whiteness Praxis in Higher Education: Considerations for the Pursuit of Racial Justice on Campus'' edited by Zak Foste and Tenisha L. Tevis
# ''Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology'' edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
# ''Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment without Burnout'' by Cal Newport
# ''Sisters of the Lost Nation'' by Nick Medina
# ''Rise Up!: Activism as Education'' edited by Amalia Dache, Stephen John Quaye, Chris Linder, and Keon M. McGuire
# ''Decolonizing Educational Research: From Ownership to Answerability'' by Leigh Patel
# ''Hello Beautiful'' by Ann Napolitano
# ''Crazy Rich Asians'' by Kevin Kwan
# ''Whale'' by Cheon Myeong-kwan, translated by Chi-Young Kim
# ''Just Research in Contentious Times: Widening the Methodological Imagination'' by Michelle Fine
# ''The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'' by Shehan Karunatilaka (Category #11: A Magical Realism Book)
# ''Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples'' by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
# ''China Rich Girlfriend'' by Kevin Kwan
# ''The Bone People'' by Keri Hulme
# ''The Secret to Superhuman Strength'' by Alison Bechdel (Category #10: A Graphic Novel)
# ''Burmese Days'' by George Orwell (Category #9: A Literary Classic)
# ''The Fox Wife'' by Yangsze Choo
# ''Rich People Problems'' by Kevin Kwan
# ''Sipsworth, a Novel'' by Simon Van Booy
# ''Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethic'' by Simon Blackburn
# ''The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century'' by Steven Pinker
# ''To be Taught, if Fortunate'' by Becky Chambers (Category #7: A Science Fiction Book)
# ''Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom'' by bell hooks
# ''Writing Down the Bone: Freeing the Writer Within'' by Natalie Goldberg
# ''Pedro Páramo'' by Juan Rulfo
# ''A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet'' by Becky Chambers
# ''The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness'' by Sy Montgomery
# ''Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds'' by adrienne maree brown
# ''Wishful Drinking'' by Carrie Fisher (Category #4: A Memoir about Drug Addiction)
# ''Unsettled Ground'' by Claire Fuller
# ''Exhalation: Stories'' by Ted Chiang
# ''The Dispossessed: A Novel'' by Urusal K. Le Guin
# ''Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy'' by Cathy O'Neil
# ''Linghun'' by Ai Jiang (Category #1: A Ghost Story)

== Alicia's 2024 Reading List ==
=== Goal: 10 Books ===
# ''The Island of Sea Women'' by Lisa See
# ''The Case Against Socialism'' by Rand Paul
# ''An Edible History of Humanity'' by Tom Standage
# ''Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West'' by Blaine Harden
# ''Cultured: How Ancient Foods Can Feed Our Microbiome'' by Katherine Harmon Courage
# ''Pachinko'' by Min Jin Lee
# ''Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962'' by Frank Dikötter

== Aubrey's 2024 Reading List ==
=== Goal: 25 Books, Including Challenge Categories ===
# ''Hello Beautiful'' by Ann Napolitano (Category #12: A Book Obtained for Free)
# ''Severance'' by Ling Ma
# ''Bea Wolf'' written by Zach Weinersmith and illustrated by Boulet (Category #10: A Graphic Novel)
# ''Such a Quiet Place: A Novel'' by Megan Miranda
# ''Tenderloin'' by Joy Sorman (Category # 6: A Book Translated into English)
# ''Sankofa'' by Chibundu Onuzo (Category #3: A Book with a Female Lead)
# ''Stargazing'' by Jen Wang (Category #10: A Graphic Novel)
# ''Some Kind of Happiness'' by Claire Legrand
# ''Snow and Rose'' by Emily Winfield Martin (Category #11: A Magical Realism Book)

== Melanie's 2024 Reading List ==
=== Goal: 15 Books, Including Challenge Categories, Applying Multiple Categories per Book ===
# ''Persepolis'' Marjane Satrapi (Category #3: A Book with a Female Lead; Category #6: A Book Translated into English; Category #10: A Graphic Novel)
# ''Girl In Pieces: A Novel'' by Kathleen Glasgow (Category #3: A Book with a Female Lead)
# ''Some Kind of Happiness'' by Claire Legrand
# ''Besties Work Out'' written by Kayla Miller and Jeffrey Canino, illustrated by Kristina Luu
# ''Lightfall: Shadow of the Bird'' by Tim Probert
# ''Night'' by Elie Wiesel (Category #2: A Holocaust Book)
# ''Even If We Break'' by Marieke Nijkamp (Category #12: A Book Obtained for Free)
# ''The Girl in the White Van'' by April Henry
# ''Girl Forgotten'' by April Henry
# ''Code Name Verity'' by Elizabeth Wein (Category #2: A Holocaust Book)
# ''The Book Thief'' by Markus Zusak
# ''The Boring Book: (Childrens Book about Boredom, Funny Kids Picture Book, Early Elementary School Story Book)'' by Shinsuke Yoshitake
# ''How to Survive Your Murder'' by Danielle Valentine
# ''Divergent'' by Veronica Roth

== Ramona's 2024 Reading List ==
=== Goal: 15 Books ===
# ''Beetle & the Hollowbones'' by Aliza Layne
# ''A First Time for Everything'' by Dan Santat
# ''The Fourteenth Goldfish: Believe in the Possible'' by Jennifer L. Holm
# ''Making Friends'' by Kristen Gudsnuk
# ''Bea Wolf'' written by Zach Weinersmith and illustrated by Boulet
# ''Stargazing'' by Jen Wang