Whether or Not to Shop This Weekend

Though I certainly don't want to be up at 3AM to buy groceries. As I said this week, I made sure to get enough groceries by Tuesday to avoid the Thanksgiving Eve grocery store crowds. 

And for the record, I did not wake up at 3AM yesterday or even today. I did get out yesterday, but waited until lunch time to get to McDonald's, then stopping at the Goodwill nearby. Was surprised not to see Goodwill crowded and to not see merchandise, especially clothes, dropped on the floor. One of the McDonald's in my town is across from Target. I didn't bother looking to see how packed the parking lot at Target was. I also had to get cat food at the Dollar Tree, which was also surprisingly not crowded either. I guess the crowds start to thin out by lunch time. 

As for today, just going anywhere at all remains unknown right now. Not even certain about ordering anything online. 

2025 Nonfiction Reader Challenge

 Another I have been doing for several years.

You can select, read and review a book from the categories listed below during the year for a total of up to 12 books; OR select, read and review any nonfiction book. A book may be in print, electronic or audio format.

Choose a goal:

Nonfiction Nipper: Read & review 3 books, from any 3 listed categories

Nonfiction Nibbler: Read & review 6 books, from any 6 listed categories

Nonfiction Nosher: Read & review 12 books, one for each category

Nonfiction Grazer: Read & review any nonfiction book. Set your own goal, or none at all, just share the nonfiction you read through the year.

Categories:

1. History: Jazz--Walter Dean Myers
2. Memoir/Biography: The Beautiful Struggle--Ta-Nehisi Coates
3. True Crime: The Devil's Highway--Luis Alberto Urrea
4. Science: Earth's Wild Music--Kathleen Dean Moore
5. Health: Tiny Beautiful Things--Cheryl Strayed
6. Food: Be Ready When the Luck Happens--Ina Garten
7. Travel
8. Garden: Dig In!:12 Easy Gardening Projects Suing Kitchen Scraps--Kari Cornell
9. Myth, Legend and Folklore: The Twelve Princesses--Gordon Fitchett
10. Islands 
11. How-To: Big Magic--Elizabeth Gilbert
12. Published in 2025

Book Challenge by Erin 22.0

 

Categories:

• 5 points: Freebie – read a book that is at least 200 pages: Tweet Cute--Emma Lord

• 10 points: read a book you intended to read in 2024 but didn’t get to it (or you added to your TBR in 2024): The Blackbirds--Eric Jerome Dickey

• 10 points: read a book with a main character who is an artist (performer, writer, musician, dancer): The Rom-Commers--Katherine Center

• 15 points: read a book with a picture of a sunset or sunrise on its cover: Sunrise Canyon--Janet Dailey

• 20 points: (chosen by Ashley NL) read a book recommended by book clubs of Jenna Bush, Oprah Winfrey, or Reese Witherspoon: Nightcrawling--Leila Mottley

• 20 points: (chosen by Dani D) read a book whose title starts with letter "I," but not I or any contraction of I (no I Will, I'm, I'll, I've...): It's the End of the World and I'm in my Bathing Suit--Justin A. Reynolds

• 25 points: read a book with a specific city/town name in the title (i.e. Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie, The Paris Library by Janet S Charles, The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin, Dongri to Dubai by S Hussain Zaidi): The Last Train to London--Meg Waite Clayton

• 30 points: read a book with a female villain: East of Eden--John Steinbeck

• 30 points: read a book written by an author whose first name is Erin or surname is Gray: Lalani of the Distant Sea--Erin Entrada Kelly

• 35 points: (chosen by Joanna D) read a book about climate change/climate fiction: The Mammoth Hunters--Jean M. Auel

Challenge completed on February 5

2025 Alphabet Soup – Author Edition Reading Challenge

This will be the second year I've done the Author Edition of Alphabet Soup, after years of just doing the Title Edition.

2025 Alphabet Soup – Author Edition Reading Challenge

Just for Fun!

It’s An Alphabet Challenge!

Start keeping track of your authors and by December 31, 2025

your bowls must be filled by one author for each letter of the Alphabet.

Be sure to include the book title too.

 Details

This challenge will run from January 1st, 2025 until December 31st, 2025.

You can join anytime. You do not have to post a review of the book. Books can come from any genre.

You do not need to link up each spoonful.

Make a page or a post or a GoodReads shelf where you will keep track of your spoonfuls. I keep track of mine on my Challenge Page.

Crossovers to other challenges are allowed and encouraged!

It’s an alphabet challenge!!! The challenge is to read one book that has an author whose first name, middle, or last name starts with every letter of the alphabet.

My books:

A The Mammoth Hunters--Jean M. Auel

B The Girls With No Names--Serena Burdick

C The Rom-Commers--Katherine Center

D The Blackbirds--Eric Jerome Dickey

E I Feel Bad About My Neck--Nora Ephron

F Ace of Shades--Amanda Foody

G The Signature of All Things--Elizabeth Gilbert

H The Beach Club--Elin Hilderbrand

I  Klara and the Sun--Kazuo Ishiguro

J Yellow Wife--Sadeqa Johnson

K Lalani of the Distant Sea--Erin Entrada Kelly

L Tweet Cute--Emma Lord

M Nightcrawling--Leila Mottley

N Hello Beautiful--Ann Napolitano

O Pieces of Happiness--Anne Ostby

P Mad Honey--Jodi Picoult

Q The Girl Who Knew Too Much--Amanda Quick

R It's the End of the World and I'm In my Bathing Suit--Justin A. Reynolds

S East of Eden--John Steinbeck

T This One Summer--Jillian Tamaki

U The Devil's Highway--Luis Alberto Urrea

V Around the World in 80 Days--Jules Verne

W Pardonable Lies--Jacqueline Winspear

X Angels Ride Bikes and Other Fall Poems--Francisco X. Alarcon

Y The Last Letter--Rebecca Yarros

Z Martin McLean, Middle School Queen--Alyssa Zaczek

Challenge completed on June 13

2025 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge

Another I have been doing for years is now up for 2025.

The Alphabet Soup Challenge means that by December 31, 2025

your bowls must be filled with one book for each letter of the Alphabet.

Each Letter Counts As 1 Spoonful

Details

This challenge will run from January 1st, 2025 until December 31st, 2025.

You can join anytime. You do not have to post a review of the book. Books can come from any genre.

Children’s Books and Novellas are acceptable but they need to be over 50 Pages. 

You do not need to link up each spoonful.

Grab a notebook or make a page or a post or a GoodReads shelf where you will keep track of your spoonfuls. I keep track of mine on my Challenge Page. 

Crossovers to other challenges are allowed and encouraged! 

It’s an alphabet challenge!!! The challenge is to read one book that has a title starting with every letter of the alphabet.

You can drop the A’s and The’s from the book titles as shown below.

 The First Main Word Needs To Be

The Letter You Are Counting 

Except For that pesky Q, X, AND Z titles then the word that starts with the challenge letter can be anywhere in the title. This year I have decided to allow book titles starting with EX for the X prompt.

My books:

A An American Marriage--Tayari Jones

B The Blackbirds--Eric Jerome Dickey

C Cold Hearted--Serena Valentino

D Dream When You're Feeling Blue--Elizabeth Berg

E East of Eden--John Steinbeck

F Fired Up--Jayne Ann Krentz

G The Girls With No Names--Serena Burdick

H Hello Beautiful--Ann Napolitano

I It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit--Justin A. Reynolds

J Jazz--Walter Dean Myers

K Klara and the Sun--Kazuo Ishiguro

L Lalani of the Distant Sea--Erin Entrada Kelly

M The Mammoth Hunters--Jean M. Auel

N Nightcrawling--Leila Mottley

O Openly Straight--Bill Konigsberg

P Pardonable Lies--Jacqueline Winspear

Q The Quilts of Gee's Bend--Susan Goldman Rubin

R The Rom-Commers--Katherine Center

S Sunrise Canyon--Janet Dailey

T Tweet Cute--Emma Lord

U Under the Same Stars--Libba Bray

V The Very Busy Day--Diana Hendry

W Where the Sky Lives--Margaret Dilloway

X

Y Yellow Wife--Sadeqa Johnson

Z Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind--Shunryu Suzuki

Thanksgiving Humor--Thursday 13

Colleen at The Thursday 13 holds a weekly blogging prompt where bloggers make a list of 13 things on Thursdays. The topic is for you to choose. The blog host doesn't have any official graphics to display on the Thursday 13 posts, so I decided to whip one up myself. 🙂  

 

Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating today. I'm sharing some new ones and old favorites.

Book Discussion: Nominees for the 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards

 

When I saw the Goodreads Choice Awards nominees are now up for the first round of votings, I was excited, then shocked to see that a grand total of one book I'd read this year was nominated. I was thus only able to vote for that one. The one book I have read among the 2024 GR nominees is:

As far as other nominees go, there are several I have heard about, but not read, because I cannot find them at my library and don't want to spend money on them if I think (or even know!) I'll never read them again. I might try to look for e-books to borrow, but the drawbacks to this idea are 1) I can only take reading so many e-books 2) The particular book may not be available on the e-book services available through my public library and 3) Even if the book is on the service, if it's a new and popular one, it will likely have a long wait, often up to six months. (I often don't want to wait that long!) 

Two others have also posted blog entires on the  Goodreads awards. This one said how she felt out of touch, not having heard of some of the books nominated and having read some that she did not finish (DNF). There are also many I didn't know about either. Just how did she or I miss these and how did they get nominated? She also questioned why people are using the term "romantasy." 

Another blogger wondered about the following:

I believe this year they even took away the "Write in" nominees unless that was last year because they added a whopping TWO genre categories but yet still leave out a TON for the YA categories. I mean seriously, just SciFi/Fantasy and Fiction? That's it? You lump Paranormal, SciFi, Fantasy, Dystopian all into one category and then "the rest" goes into another? When adults get a "contemporary" and its own thriller, horror, SciFi, Fantasy, "Romantasy" categories? It's ridiculous!

Now that she has alerted readers to this, I too wonder why all forms of Fantasy can't be included under one category for the YA books. 

Again, there are lots of nominated books I have heard of but have been unable to find without having to buy them. And the fact that they've been nominated makes me want to read them even more. 

2025 NoveList Reading Challenge

 This is my third year of doing this challenge.

January: Mix things up with a genre blend: Lalani of the Distant Sea--Erin Entrada Kelly

February: Fall in love with an LGBTQIA+ romance: Openly Straight--Bill Konigsberg

March: Stay up to date with a book about current social issues: An ABC of Equality--Chana Ginelle Ewing

April: Read a book with neurodivergent characters: Popcorn--Rob Harrell

May: Enjoy a larger-than-life cinematic book: Beautiful Creatures--Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

June: Lighten up with a funny or whimsical graphic novel: New Kid--Jerry Craft

July: Enjoy a chilling summer with must-read horror:

August: Read a cli-fi, solarpunk, or hopepunk book:

September: Read a book set in the decade you were born:

October: Try an award-winning audiobook or graphic novel:

November: Tempt your tastebuds with a culinary read:

December: Go meta with books about books:  

Trying to Avoid Store Crowds

With Thanksgiving this week, one thing I am dreading is getting to the grocery store before the holiday and trying to avoid the crowds. I had to pick up something on Thanksgiving Day last year and when I arrived at Safeway, there was literally no place to park. Walgreens and Target were both closed, and only one line was a Rite Aid. So I went back to Safeway and found an empty parking space, and was able  to get what I needed. I was willing to fight the crowds on this one; getting into the store to begin with was the real challenge here.

But I'm hoping to avoid all this for this year. I already made a store run yesterday, but even before that I went to Dollar Tree to stock up on bathroom items before the holiday. These are things I don't want to have to rush down on Thanksgiving Day to get. And since I have Tuesdays off, I plan to get drinks for my potluck at work then, as well as something to take on Thursday. I'm going to a friend's for the holiday, the same one I went to last year. I really enjoyed it then. I plan to get a pie for that one. I was going to ry to make a no-bake pie, but since I have never tried such a recipe, I decided to get one at the store. Maybe another time I will try a no-bake pie, perhaps for Christmas. I'm going the store on Tuesday won't be crowded like that depicted in this photo.

And I would never even think of shopping on Friday early in the morning. If a grocery emergency should arise that day, I will wait until later in the day, hoping the crowds thin out by that time.

The 52 Book Club’s 2025 Reading Challenge

One of the ones I always look forward to doing. It's now here!

1. Pun in the title: Ace of Shades--Amanda Foody
2. Character with red hair:
3. Title starts with M: My Favorite Half-Night Stand--Christina Lauren
4. Title starts with N: Nightcrawling--Leila Mottley
5. Plot includes a heist:
6. Genre One: Set in spring: The Signature of All Things--Elizabeth Gilbert
7. Genre Two: Set in summer: The Beach Club--Elin Hilderbrand
8. Genre Three: Set in autumn:
9. Genre Four: Set in winter: Whiteout--Dhonielle Clayton
10. Author's last name is also a first name: Lalani of the Distant Sea--Erin Entrada Kelly
11. A prequel:
12. Has a moon on the cover:
13. Title is ten letters or less: Mad Honey--Jodi Picoult
14. Climate fiction: The Mammoth Hunters--Jean M. Auel
15. Includes Latin American history: Gods of Jade and Shadow--Silvia Moreno-Garcia
16. Author has won Edgar Award:
17. Told in verse: Tricks--Ellen Hopkins
18. Character who can fly:
19. Has short chapters: The Blackbirds--Eric Jerome Dickey
20. Fairy tale retelling: Spindle's End--Robin McKinley
21. Character's name in the title: Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books--Kirsten Miller
22. Found family trope: Table for Five--Susan Wiggs
23. A sprayed edge: Under the Same Stars--Libba Bray
24. Title is a spoiler:
25. Breaks the fourth wall:
26. More than a million copies sold:
27. Features a magician:
28. Crossover (set in a shared universe): The Girl Who Knew Too Much--Amanda Quick
29. Shares universe with Prompt 28: Fired Up--Jayne Ann Krentz
30. In the public domain: Around the World in 80 Days--Jules Verne
31. Audiobook has multiple narrators: Jazz--Walter Dean Myers
32. Includes a diary entry: On Agate Hill--Lee Smith
33. Standalone novel: The Rom-Commers--Katherine Center
34. Direction in the title: East of Eden--John Steinbeck
35. Written in 3rd person: Sunrise Canyon--Janet Dailey
36. Final sentence is less than six words long: The Fountains of Silence--Ruta Sepetys
37. Genre chosen for you by someone else:
38. Adventure story:
39. Has an epigraph:
40. Stream of consciousness narrative:
41. Cover font is in a primary color: New Kid--Jerry Craft
42. Non-human antagonist:
43. Explores social class: The Beautiful Struggle--Ta-Nehisi Coates
44. Celebrity on the cover: Be Ready When the Luck Happens--Ina Garten
45. Author releases more than one book a year:
46. Read in a "-ber" month:
47. "I think it was blue": Eleven--Tom Rogers
48. Related to the word "puzzle":
49. Set in a country with an active volcano: The Traveling Cat Chronicles--Hiro Arikawa
50. Set in the 1940s: Dream When You're Feeling Blue--Elizabeth Berg
51. 300-400 pages long: The Girls With No Names--Serena Burdick
52. Published in 2025:

She Reads Romance Books 2025 Romance Book Reading Challenge

 Doing this one again.

By focusing on the major categories, this gives you a lot of room to explore whatever romance book tropes you want within those categories. Like enemies to lovers? You could read this trope every month of the year for each challenge or mix it up along the way.

January – Contemporary Romance: The Rom-Commers--Katherine Center

February – Erotic Romance: My Favorite Half-Night Stand--Christina Lauren

March – Romantic Comedy: It Happened One Summer--Tessa Bailey

April – Historical Romance: The Girl Who Knew Too Much--Amanda Quick

May – Fantasy  Romance: Beautiful Creatures--Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

June – Queer Romance: Fingersmith--Sarah Waters

July – Sports Romance

August – Dark Romance

September – New Adult Romance

October – Paranormal Romance

November – Romantic Suspense

December – Holiday Romance

13 Nonfiction Books I Have Read This Year

Colleen at The Thursday 13 holds a weekly blogging prompt where bloggers make a list of 13 things on Thursdays. The topic is for you to choose. The blog host doesn't have any official graphics to display on the Thursday 13 posts, so I decided to whip one up myself. 🙂  

Because this is a book topic, I will also be posting it to the Book Blog Discussion Challenge, at Feed Your Fiction Addiction and It Starts at Midnight. 

Since November is Nonfiction month, I decided to include a list of some of the nonfiction I have read this year so far (not just in November!) and how/why I chose them. Just choosing 13 was difficult, since I'm sure I've read more than that number of nonfiction books! These are not listed in any particular order.

1. My Name is Mary--Mary Fisher: My most recent read on this list. I was looking for a book by an author who's HIV positive (for this challenge) and came across this one is my library's database. What I did not know was that this author spoke at the Republican Convention in 1992, making me think I probably shouldn't read it! But at least it was before Trump!
2. Favorite Dog Stories--James Herriot: I went looking for All Creatures Great and Small at the library, but did not see it! The database says they have it! I was in a hurry, and was looking for an animal-related memoir and saw this one. It was a short, easy read. Also during November.
3. Killers of the Flower Moon--David Grann: I just had to read this one after hearing about the movie (I have not watched it). There was a wait at the library for this one, so I guess others had the same thing in mind.
4. Sourdough Sagas--Herbert L. Heller: I mentioned this one in another post I made to both challenges in June, on new-to-me authors I've read this year. As I said then, an older friend gave me some books he'd had, including this one, one of the first books I read this year. The subject of this story collection was a new one to me: pioneering and gold in Alaska from 1883 to 1923. 
5. Paris: The Memoir--Paris Hilton: I honestly don't know why I chose this, but I may have been curious. All I want to say about this 😉
6. Into the Wild--Jon Krakauer: One I had known about for sometime, but did not get around to reading until this past year. I may have heard about the film first, but have not attempted to watch it, even after reading the book.
7. Broad Band--Claire E. Evans: One of the challenges I'm doing this year includes reading books from each of the Dewey Decimal System numbers (thus adding to how much nonfiction I've read so far this year). I was having a hard time choosing something for the 000s. I had tried to get this one earlier in the year, but It was checked out, and I put it on hold, but it never came back when it was supposed to! I decided against it for the time being, but checked it out later when it was in.
8. World of Wonders--Aimee Nezhukumatathil: I needed a book on climate change. I chose this one since it was the one I could find at the library that I had not read already, per my Goodreads account.
9. Savage Beauty--Nancy Milford: I knew very little about Edna St. Vincent Millay before reading this. I was looking for a book on a poet or writer. I was also looking for a book mentioned in a TV show or streamed series, and found out after I was finished reading this book that it is one of the books from the Rory Gilmore Reading List, so I went back to add it to the challenges that called for the TV show/streaming series category.
10. Rolling Warrior--Judith Heumann: I saw this one while looking for a book by a disabled author. It's a very thought-provoking memoir about how one girl paralyzed by polio who fought for her rights after she was denied a chance to go to school and to get a teacher's license because of her disability.
11. Rebel Chef--Dominique Crenn: Chose this one when looking for a food memoir. So many of the ones I found when I looked for such books I had already read. I wanted to read a new, one so this what I picked.
12. Lilibet: An Intimate Portrait of Elizabeth II--Carolly Erickson: I was looking for a book on a woman who ruled. This one looked good. Unfortunately it's a little outdated, as it was published a year before the wedding of Charles and Camilla.
13. The Mountain is You--Brianna Wiest: Every year I seem to have the self-help prompt, and it's become a dreaded genre of mine. I basically read the book, with no self-help intended. This book was no exception. Do any of you read self-help and do you intend to follow what the book says? This wasn't the only self-help I read this year, BTW.

These are just some of the nonfiction books I have read this year so far. I know I'll  get at least one in December. I've read many true crime books, as I have had that prompt many times.

Read With Allison’s 2025 Reading Challenge

 My third time doing this one.

1. 2024 bestseller
2. Set in winter: Whiteout--Dhonielle Clayton
3. Highest rated book on TBR:
4. Genre: Fantasy: Gods of Jade and Shadow--Silvia Moreno-Garcia
5. You and author share first initial: Sunrise Canyon--Janet Dailey
6. Five words in title: Dream When You're Feeling Blue--Elizabeth Berg
7. Gold lettering on cover: Maya and the Rising Dark--Rena Barron
8. Set in a  city known for its nightlife:
9. Book gifted to you: Spindle's End--Robin McKinley
10. Genre: Romance: My Favorite Half-Night Stand--Christina Lauren
11. Ugly cover: The Beautiful Struggle--Ta-Nehisi Coates
12. By two authors: Beautiful Creatures--Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
13. In a series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold--Shikazu Kawaguchi
14. Five-star prediction:
15. Cover with a night sky: Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains--Susan Elderkin
16. Set in a small town: It Happened One Summer--Tessa Bailey
17. Indie author: The Beach House--Rachel Hanna
18. Book from a subscription box:
19. Out of your comfort zone: Rider of Lost Creek--Louis L'Amour
20. Audiobook: Green is a Chili Pepper--Roseanne Greenfield Thong
21. About secrets:
22. Multiple POVs: The Girls With No Names--Serena Burdick
23. Set at a lake:
24. Book you've owned longer than one year:
25. Illustrated cover: It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit--Justin A. Reynolds
26. Genre: Contemporary Fiction:
27. Title starts with E: East of Eden--John Steinbeck
28. Recommended by a friend: Pieces of Happiness--Anne Ostby
29. About revenge:
30. Library book: Openly Straight--Bill Konigsberg
31. Mood read: From the Desk of Zoe Washington--Janae Marks
32. Number in title: Eleven--Tom Rogers
33. Two books by the same author (1): The Signature of All Things--Elizabeth Gilbert
34. Two books by the same author (2): Big Magic--Elizabeth Gilbert
35. Book with a  map:
36. Genre: Mystery:
37. About friendship:
38. Set somewhere you wouldn't want to visit:
39. Underhyped book:
40. Mostly black cover: The Blackbirds--Eric Jerome Dickey
41. Book that scares you:
42. Character's name in title: The Two Lives of Lydia Bird--Josie Silver
43. Genre: Thriller: Mad Honey--Jodi Picoult
44. Set in a different time period: The Last Train to London--Meg Waite Clayton
45. About travel:
46. Book you've been putting off: The Mammoth Hunters--Jean M. Auel
47. Book adapted to TV/movie: Around the World in 80 Days--Jules Verne
48. Holiday scene on cover:
49. 2025 new release: Under the Same Stars--Libba Bray
50. Book you think will surprise you:
51. Popular book:
52. Reread a favorite book:

Booklist Queen’s 2025 Reading Challenge

 Another favorite of mine is now up for 2025.

1. Meant to read last year: Tweet Cute--Emma Lord
2. Goodreads Winner in 2024:
3. Romantasy:
4. About siblings: Hello Beautiful--Ann Napolitano
5. Book becoming movie/show in 2025: Klara and the Sun--Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Spy thriller:
7. Women's fiction: The Girls With No Names--Serena Burdick
8. Title starts with C: Cloud Atlas--David Mitchell
9. Nonfiction book about health: Tiny Beautiful Things--Cheryl Strayed
10. Twist ending: Mad Honey--Jodi Picoult
11. Published in 2015:
12. Fiction & Nonfiction by same author: The Signature of All Things--Elizabeth Gilbert
13. Fiction & Nonfiction by same author: Big Magic--Elizabeth Gilbert
14. Mythology retelling:
15. Own but haven't read:
16. Set in the Middle East: The Master and Margarita--Mikhail Bulgakov
17. Sequel: The Guncle Abroad--Steven Rowley
18. Debut author:
19. Heartwarming story: The Last Letter--Rebecca Yarros
20. Book that took a while to read: The Mammoth Hunters--Jean M. Auel
21. Classic recommenced to you: The Diary of a Goose Girl--Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
22. Villain as protagonist: Cold Hearted--Serena Valentino
23. Set in the summer: The Beach Club--Elin Hilderbrand
24. 2024 bestseller:
25. Green cover: Prodigal Summer--Barbara Kingslover
26. Bottom of TBR:
27. Author from Africa:
28. Book that makes you cry:
29. About a politician:
30. Popular book you've never read: Klara and the Sun--Kazuo Ishiguro
31. Illustrated book: Around the World in 80 Days--Jules Verne
32. Audiobook with multiple narrators: Jazz--Walter Dean Myers
33. Set in the suburbs:
34. Dark academia: Banned Book Club--Kim Hyun Sook
35. Intriguing cover: The Blackbirds--Eric Jerome Dickey
36. Five-star read:
37. About an immigrant: The Last Train to London--Meg Waite Clayton
38. Banned book: Eleven--Tom Rogers
39. Set in the 1960s:
40. With chapter titles: Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books--Kirsten Miller
41. Dystopian fiction: It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit--Justin A. Reynolds
42. Author you love:
43. Multigenerational story:
44. Animal in the title:
45. 2025 new release: Under the Same Stars--Libba Bray
46. Out of your comfort zone: Rider of Lost Creek--Louis L'Amour
47. Thought-provoking historical fiction: East of Eden--John Steinbeck
48. Book everyone is talking about:
49. Romance book: The Rom-Commers--Katherine Center
50. Bestselling memoir:
51. YA fiction:
52. Reread a favorite: