User:Blheier/2024 Reading

2024 Reading Challenge Categories

Read at least one book from each of the following categories (one category per book):

1. A Ghost Story
2. A Holocaust Book
3. A Book with a Female Lead
4. A Memoir about Drug Addiction
5. A Book Nominated for the Booker Prize
6. A Book Translated into English
7. A Science Fiction Book
8. A Banned Book
9. A Literary Classic
10. A Graphic Novel
11. A Magical Realism Book
12. A Book Obtained for Free

Blazey's 2024 Reading List

Goal: 50 Books, Including Challenge Categories

1. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama (Category #12: A Book Obtained for Free)
2. China Room by Sunjeev Sahota (Category #5: A Book Nominated for the Booker Prize)
3. Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (Category #3: A Book with a Female Lead)
4. Heaven by Mieko Kawakami (Category #6: A Book Translated into English)
5. Rethinking College Student Development Theory Using Critical Frameworks edited by Elisa S. Abes, Susan R. Jones, and D-L Stewart
6. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
7. The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
8. The Buddha in the Attic: A Novel by Julie Otsuka
9. Critical Whiteness Praxis in Higher Education: Considerations for the Pursuit of Racial Justice on Campus edited by Zak Foste and Tenisha L. Tevis
10. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
11. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment without Burnout by Cal Newport
12. Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
13. Rise Up!: Activism as Education edited by Amalia Dache, Stephen John Quaye, Chris Linder, and Keon M. McGuire
14. Decolonizing Educational Research: From Ownership to Answerability by Leigh Patel
15. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
16. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
17. Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan, translated by Chi-Young Kim
18. Just Research in Contentious Times: Widening the Methodological Imagination by Michelle Fine
19. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Category #11: A Magical Realism Book)
20. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
21. China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
22. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
23. The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (Category #10: A Graphic Novel)
24. Burmese Days by George Orwell (Category #9: A Literary Classic)
25. The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
26. Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
27. Sipsworth: A Novel by Simon Van Booy
28. Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethic by Simon Blackburn
29. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
30. To be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers (Category #7: A Science Fiction Book)
31. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
32. Writing Down the Bone: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
33. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
34. A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
35. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
36. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
37. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (Category #4: A Memoir about Drug Addiction)
38. Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
39. Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
40. The Dispossessed: A Novel by Urusal K. Le Guin
41. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
42. Linghun by Ai Jiang (Category #1: A Ghost Story)
43. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
44. Saint X: A Novel by Alexis Schaitkin
45. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
46. Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education: The Journey Stories of Undocumented and Unafraid Community Activists by Susana Muñoz
47. The Assault by Harry Mulisch (Category #2 A Holocaust Book)
48. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
49. The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright

Alicia's 2024 Reading List

Goal: 10 Books

1. The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
2. The Case Against Socialism by Rand Paul
3. An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage
4. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
5. Cultured: How Ancient Foods Can Feed Our Microbiome by Katherine Harmon Courage
6. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
7. 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

1. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (Category #12: A Book Obtained for Free)
2. Severance by Ling Ma
3. Bea Wolf written by Zach Weinersmith and illustrated by Boulet (Category #10: A Graphic Novel)
4. Such a Quiet Place: A Novel by Megan Miranda
5. Tenderloin by Joy Sorman (Category # 6: A Book Translated into English)
6. Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo (Category #3: A Book with a Female Lead)
7. Stargazing by Jen Wang (Category #10: A Graphic Novel)
8. Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand
9. Snow and Rose by Emily Winfield Martin (Category #11: A Magical Realism Book)
10. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

Melanie's 2024 Reading List

Goal: 15 Books, Including Challenge Categories, Applying Multiple Categories per Book

1. Persepolis Marjane Satrapi (Category #3: A Book with a Female Lead; Category #6: A Book Translated into English; Category #10: A Graphic Novel)
2. Girl In Pieces: A Novel by Kathleen Glasgow (Category #3: A Book with a Female Lead)
3. Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand
4. Besties Work Out written by Kayla Miller and Jeffrey Canino, illustrated by Kristina Luu
5. Lightfall: Shadow of the Bird by Tim Probert
6. Night by Elie Wiesel (Category #2: A Holocaust Book)
7. Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp (Category #12: A Book Obtained for Free)
8. The Girl in the White Van by April Henry
9. Girl Forgotten by April Henry
10. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (Category #2: A Holocaust Book)
11. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
12. The Boring Book: (Childrens Book about Boredom, Funny Kids Picture Book, Early Elementary School Story Book) by Shinsuke Yoshitake
13. How to Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine
14. Divergent by Veronica Roth
15. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Category #9: A Literary Classic)
16. Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Val Emmich with Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul
17. Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford

Ramona's 2024 Reading List

Goal: 15 Books

1. Beetle & the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
2. A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
3. The Fourteenth Goldfish: Believe in the Possible by Jennifer L. Holm
4. Making Friends by Kristen Gudsnuk
5. Bea Wolf written by Zach Weinersmith and illustrated by Boulet
6. Stargazing by Jen Wang