Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

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2025 Summer Reading Challenge Prompts
7500/5000 points

Chips and Dip - 100 points
✔️ 1a. A book in a series - The Giver by Lois Lowry (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 1b. A book with water on the cover - This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (completed, physical book)
✔️ 1c. A book released in 2024 or 2025 - Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (published in 2025) (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 1d. A book by a new to you author - The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 1e. A humorous book - Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix (completed, e-book)

Drinks Station - 200 points
Author's initials are in:
✔️ 2a. FRESH-SQUEEZED LEMONADE - Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 2b. UNSWEETENED ICED TEA - The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 2c. ROOT BEER SODA - The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 2d. FRUIT PUNCH - Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 2e. SPARKLING WATER - The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston (completed, audiobook)

Burger and Hotdog Toppings - 300 points
✔️ 3a. Ketchup: A book with red on the cover - Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen R. Ghodsee (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 3b. Relish: A book by a favorite author - Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 3c. Mustard: A book with a military character (serving, retired, or adjacent) - Recursion by Blake Crouch (completed, e-book)
✔️ 3d. Pickles: A book title that includes a word starting with the letter P - Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 3e. Cheese: A sentimental book - The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing (completed, e-book)

Desserts - 400 points
✔️ 4a. A book with a child main character - Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 4b. A book with a wedding - On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 4c. A book that has been nominated for an award - Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith (nominated to Hugo award 2024) (completed, e-book)
✔️ 4d. A book with a cafe, bakery, or restaurant as an important setting - Dream On, Ramona Riley by Ashley Herring Blake (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 4e. A book originally written in a language other than English - The Years by Annie Ernaux (originally written in French) (completed, audiobook)

The Sides - 500 points
✔️ 5a. Potato salad - A book with more than one point of view - Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher (two POVs) (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 5b. Mac n' cheese - A book by an author with 10 or more books - Redshirts by John Scalzi (completed, e-book)
✔️ 5c. Corn bread - A book originally published before 1900 - Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 5d. Deviled eggs - A book with challenging subject matter - The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 5e. Watermelon - A book over 500 pages - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab (completed, audiobook)