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== Alicia's 2024 Reading List == | == Alicia's 2024 Reading List == |
Latest revision as of 02:31, 29 October 2024
Contents
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)
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
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