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

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

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)

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

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