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2025

January

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley -🔅6
Playground by Richard Powers 🔅
Women Talking by Miriam Toews 45
The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica by Naira de Gracia -2, 18
Family Secrets: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 1 by Beth Farrar - 41
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green - 34,24
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino - 22
The Collected Regrets of Clover byMikki Brammer - 🔅48
The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker 45
Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station by Dorothy Gilman 13, 45
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel 7, 26,27,45

February
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr🔅
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard -
Pod by Laline Paull - 4🔅
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen - 🔅7
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul by Clara Bingham - revolution
Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik
The Mechanics of Memory by Audrey Lee
Orbital by Samantha Harvey🔅
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay🔅
The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck 🔅
The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut🔅
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance by Dan Egan🔅
Chasing the Sun: How the Science of Sunlight Shapes Our Bodies and Minds by Linda Geddes

March

The Book Censor's Library byBothayna Al-Essa 🔅
James by Percival Everett 🔅
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy🔅
Mozart's Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn🔅
Head On by John Scalzi
The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
Track of the Cat by Nevada BarrCorey Brettschneider
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Wedding People by Alison Espach🔅
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It by Corey Brettschneider
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain―And How They Guide You by Rebecca Schwarzlose
Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

April
Network Effect
The Puma Years
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
The Summer Book
The Wee Free Men
The Music of Bees
Feral Creatures
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
Geekerela
City of the Lost
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Beautiful Ruins
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

May
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Weyward
A Tale for the Time Being
Force of Nature
The Book of Essie
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Equal Rites
The Frozen River
The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
Fugitive Telemetry
Swallow the Air
The Well of Lost Plots

June

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - Pulitzer Prize
Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
Summer of '69
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
My Favorite Half-Night Stand
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs
A Drop in the Ocean

July
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
Who Is Vera Kelly?
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
On the Beach

August
Beautyland
The River Has Roots by Amal El- Mohtar
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Sounds Like Love
Real Americans
Three Days in June


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Planned

Conclave
Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha
The Women
Wellness by Nathan Hill. Tob 24
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
The Paradise Problem
Martyr! by Eric Metaxas
All Fours by Miranda July
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
Colored Television by Danzy Senna
Rejection

Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky
My Friends by Hisham Matar
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
Hay

Monthly tags - 3-5 per month
PBT Play Harder - 2 or 3 lists of 12 books
Compass - 2 or 3 cycles of 12 books.
Aty 52, plus 10 birthday prompts - Only 1 or 2 rounds this year, with extra sides
Side challenges - Rejects, Tob, favorites, 2016 list
Target lists - include Dayton Peace Prize, tournament of books, Historical fiction, sci-fi awards, Obama, NYT, author lists, international awards, Australian awards.
Environment and nature, ocean settings

🔅🔅Priority books🔅🔅
James by Percival Everett - own, award
Wellness by Nathan Hill. Tob24 - own
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen -Tob24 - compass, Sweden north
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - own, award, Ireland
✅The Collected Regrets of Clover
The Maniac
✅Playground by Richard Powers - ocean, Tob, compass, French Polynesia
The Covenant of Water
The Briar club

🔅Tob2025 shortlist🔅
The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck
Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rumi Thorpe
Martyr! by Eric Metaxas
🔅The Wedding People by Alison Espach - own
🔅Orbital by Samantha Harvey
🔅The Book Censor's Library byBothayna Al-Essa
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
All Fours by Miranda July
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
Colored Television by Danzy Senna
Rejection
Longlist-
✅Playground by Richard Powers
Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky
My Friends by Hisham Matar
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay -Tob24, Canada

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky Tob

4. A book set underground, under sea or in an underworld
Fiction
✔️Playground by Richard Powers Tob
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor
🔅Pod by Laline Paul
Nonfiction
Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins by Susan Casey
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey
*What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean by Helen Scales
*The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works by Helen Czerski
The Lost Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna
Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

✴️ 8. A collection of short stories or novellas, essays, poetry, or a mix of various brief writings
🔅The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck - tob
🔅The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green. Own
🔅Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss - own
Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passarello
The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli
Goal 3+ books: A short story collection, an essay collection, an anthology of new authors, and maybe a poetry book


✴️12. A book by an Irish author. COMPASS
🔅Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - Booker, Dayton Peace Prize
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
History of the Rain by Niall Williams
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

13. A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family - found families, Singh, Penny, work settings,
Orbital
Network Effect
🔅The Briar Club - COMPASS
Silverborn
Enter Ghost COMPASS

14. A science fiction or fantasy novel written by a woman - Ursula K. Le Guin, Singh, Wells
Silverborn
#20, #4

✴️ 20. A book with an animal, vegetable (plant), or mineral in the title
The Puma Years by Laura Coleman (audible)
The Collected Regrets of Clover by a Nikki Brammer (high rec from Joan)
The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny (audible preorder)
The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia (audible)
🔅The Briar Club by Kate Quinn (keyhole, DC compass
H is for Hawk
Vesper Flights
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (second chance)

22. A translated novel from AsiaCOMPASS
✅The Devotion of Suspect X
My Brilliant Life by Kim Ae-ran
A Japanese detective book for Play Harder

23. A book that involves art, music, dancing or acting
🔅The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
Tipping the Velvet
Enter Ghost
The Family Fang old Tob?

27. A book set in the winter
✅Last Night in Montreal - CANADA, Play Harder
The Secret of Snow
2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Snow Road Station


30. A monster book - An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon.
🔅The Covenant of Water

31. A book with a coastal setting
Safe Harbor, Safe Heart by Lynn Jenssen
See #4

32. A mystery or true crime book
The Well of Lost Plots
The Grey Wolf
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

33. A book by an author you enjoyed but haven't gotten around to reading again for some time
Wild Dark Shore
James by Everett
Saving Emma
Archer prison books

34. A book title that could be a country song
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Whiskey When We're Dry

✴️35. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” - use list for other prompts
Wellness by Nathan Hill
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
🔅Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

47. A book relating to fire
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
Firestorm by Nevada Bar
Miracle Creek
Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy

Compass Possibilities

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Canada
Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay - -Ontario (north or Northeast
✅Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory - Toronto North
A Town Called Solace -
Crow lake - Ontario
Station Eleven - Toronto, plus other locations.
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest - Canada, Pacific NW (Northwest)
🔅The Grey Wolf- Quebec (northeast)
Fall on Your Knees - NE

🔅Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant, NW + Fort Mcmurray, Alberta
Ghost Forest - Vancouver NW
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven - British Columbia, set in nature ATY, under 200 pages Play Harder


Mexico
The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia - Mexico
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli -Mexico

United States
James by Percival Everett - Missouri?
Wellness by Nathan Hill - Chicago
The Collected Regrets of Clover
The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck - Massachusetts
The Wedding People by Alison Espach - Rhode Island, St Louis Mo
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino - Philadelphia
All Fours by Miranda July
LA to NY?
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel - Nevada
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry - Butte Montana
Colored Television by Danzy Senna - California, LA
The Briar Club - DC?
An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon.
Safe Harbor, Safe Heart by Lynn Jenssen - Conn or Long Island
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Saving Emma MN
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Whiskey When We're Dry

🔅Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr - several locations
Firestorm by Nevada Bar
Miracle Creek
Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy CA?

Northern Europe
Smilla's Sense of Snow
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen - Sweden/finland tundra
Butterflies in November by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir - Iceland

Europe - Ireland (go NW to Sweden)
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - Booker, Dayton Peace Prize
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
History of the Rain by Niall Williams
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

Middle East/Africa
My Friends by Hisham Matar - Libya, North Africa
Enter Ghost Palestine?

Asia
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers - China
A Map for the Missing - China
The Mistress of Bhatia House - India
My Brilliant Life by Kim Ae-ran - Korea
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang Us, Asia?
✅The Devotion of Suspect X - PLAY HARDER
The direction of the wind - India to Paris.
✅Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station

SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
✅Playground - “The island of Makatea in French Polynesia. between South America and Australia
✅The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica - Antarctica
Wild Dark Shore - Island near Antarctica

South America
🔅The Puma Years by Laura Coleman (audible)
See tag for more

Oceania
Robby Arnott - Tasmania
Perth authors
Fled

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Check
Rejection
Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman?
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky??
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes ?
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor
Pod by Laline Paul
Nonfiction
Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins by Susan Casey
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey
*What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean by Helen Scales
*The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works by Helen Czerski
The Lost Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna
Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green. Own
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss - own
Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passarello
The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay
H is for Hawk - Uk?
Vesper Flights -Uk?
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - northern Midwest, Ontario?

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PBT PLAY HARDER and Compass directions
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List - 12/19/24

✅1. Read a contemporary romance - The Simple Wild
2. Read a book that is a love story
✅3. Read a travel essay or memoir - The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica
✅4. Re-read the first book you remember reading that you thought was an adult book (as opposed to a childrens book) - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
5. A book that fits “hip, hippy or hipster.”
6. Read a book who's author's initials appear in the phrase: PLAY BOOK TAG (letters may be used only as often as they appear in the phrase)
✅7. Read a book by a "new to you" author - Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
8. A book that's under 200 pages
✅9. A translation of a Japanese Detective Story - The Devotion of Suspect X
10. An award winning book from 2024
✅11. Read a book with a cemetery in it -
12. Read a book with an animal as a main character

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ATY 2025 PLAN -
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THE 52 TOPICS OF THE 2025 ATY READING CHALLENGE

1. A book with a cover that has an image of something that starts with A, T, or Y
2. A prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list
3. A book connected to something mentioned in the Do Re Mi song
4. A book set underground, under sea or in an underworld
5. A book with a weird or intriguing title

6. A book with a serpentine element on the cover
7. A book by an author that uses 3 names
8. A collection of short stories or novellas, essays, poetry, or a mix of various brief writings
9. A book that has been long-listed for the Tournament of Books in any year

10. A book about witches, goddesses or nuns
11. A book set in a fictional location
12. A book by an Irish author
13. A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family
14. A science fiction or fantasy novel written by a woman

15. A book of secrets, lies, or deception
16. A book that fits a prompt from the 2016 ATY list
17. A history or historical fiction book set prior to 1925
18. A book set primarily in nature

19. A book with a cover that has a building or cityscape
20. A book with an animal, vegetable (plant), or mineral in the title
21. A book connected in some way to any collective noun for animals
22. A translated novel from Asia

23. A book that involves art, music, dancing or acting
24. A book with a main character who is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, or a criminal
25. A book with waves on the cover
26. A book by an author with a common noun in their name
27. A book set in the winter

28. Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles: Book 1
29. Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles: Book 2
30. A monster book
31. A book with a coastal setting

32. A mystery or true crime book
33. A book by an author you enjoyed but haven't gotten around to reading again for some time
34. A book title that could be a country song
35. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists

36. A book with a common household object on the cover
37. A book featuring adult friendships
38. Two books with a connection from different genres: Book 1
39. Two books with a connection from different genres: Book 2
40. A book you'd consider a comfort read

41. A book that involves digging up the past
42. A book set in a manor, mansion, or estate
43. A book whose title has ten or fewer letters
44. A haunting book

45. A book by an author whose publishing career spans at least ten years
46. A book related to one of the traditional full moon names
47. A book relating to fire
48. A book with a character dealing with death

49. A book that deals with time travel, alternate universes, or alternate timelines
50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2024 or 2025
51. A book published in 2025
52. A book with a sunset vibes on the cover


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Winter ATY Challenge

December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025. 21 books completed

The Prompts:
Find a book that...
✅1. Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
- - ✅49. A book with a senior citizen character - Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station
- - ✅50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024 -The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
- - ✅51. A book published in 2024 - The Mechanics of Memory by Audrey Lee
- - ✅52. A cozy mystery - Mrs. Pollifax on Safari

✅2. Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
- - ✅1. A book with a cover that has an image of something that starts with A, T, or Y - Open Season by CJ Box (trees)
- -✅ 2. A prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list - Revolution book-
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul
- - ✅3. A book connected to something mentioned in the Do Re Mi song - The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
- - ✅4. A book set underground, under sea or in an underworld - Pod

✅3. Has a mostly white cover. -The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica
✅4. Is on a Best of 2024 list - Playground by Richard Powers
✅5. Is set in the snow - When a Child Is Born Jodi Taylor
✅6. Is by an author you've read before - Women Talking by Miriam Toews
✅7. Features a winter holiday - Devices Brightly Shining by Shelley Adina
✅8. Is nonfiction - Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley
✅9. Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER -- Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
✅10. Has a mostly blue cover - Funny Story by Emily Henry
✅11. Is a speculative fiction novel - Lost in a Good Book
✅12. Features family - Family Secrets: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 1 by Beth Farrar
✅13. Has fire on the cover -Bellwether by Connie Willis
✅14. Is written by a BIPOC author - Winter Counts
✅15. Is a love story - The Simple Wild by KA Tucker

NancyJ’s 2025 Summer Reading Challenge
7500 points

Chips and Dip - 100 points *5 = 500 points
✅1a. A book in a series A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
✅1b. A book with water on the cover- My Friends by Fredrik Backman

✅1c. A book released in 2024 or 2025 -
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson
✅1d. A book by a new to you author- Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
✅1e. A humorous book - Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Drinks Station - 200 points * 5 = 1000 points
Author's initials are in:
✅2a. FRESH-SQUEEZED LEMONADE =A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
✅2b. UNSWEETENED ICED TEA. = The River Has Roots by Amal El- Mohtar
✅2c. ROOT BEER SODA - Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
✅2d. FRUIT PUNCH - The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
✅2e. SPARKLING WATER. - Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn

Burger and Hotdog Toppings - 300 points *5 = 1500 points
✅3a. Ketchup: A book with red on the cover - Long Island by Colm Tóibín

✅3b. Relish: A book by a favorite author - Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
✅3c. Mustard: A book with a military character (serving, retired, or adjacent) - Summer of '69
✅3d. Pickles: A book title that includes a word starting with the letter P - A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
✅3e. Cheese: A sentimental book - The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

Desserts - 400 points * 5 = 2000 points
✅4a. A book with a child main character - Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
✅4b. A book with a wedding - The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha
✅4c. A book that has been nominated for an award - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - Pulitzer Prize
✅4d. A book with a cafe, bakery, or restaurant as an important setting - Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
✅4e. A book originally written in a language other than English -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Sides - 500 points * 5 = 2500 points
✅5a. Potato salad - A book with more than one point of view -
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
✅5b. Mac n' cheese - A book by an author with 10 or more books - The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
✅5c. Corn bread - A book originally published before 1900 -
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
✅5d. Deviled eggs - A book with challenging subject matter
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland
✅5e. Watermelon - A book over 500 pages - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides


500+1000+1500+2000+2500=7,500 points