Episode 167 || Bookshelf Reading Challenge 2018
It's time to forge ahead into the wild unknown. Are you ready to earn 20% off a Bookshelf purchase? Follow along with Chris and Annie as they explain the terms of this year's Bookshelf Reading Challenge!
Also, do we sound different?
Mentioned this week:
+ Heating and Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly
+ The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
+ Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
+ Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park
+ Encyclopedia Brown by Daniel J. Sobol
+ The All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
+ The Familiar Enemy by Ardis Butterfield
+ Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen
+ Dead Wake by Erik Larsen
+ Tale of Two Americas by various
+ A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes
+ The Evangelicals by Frances FitzGerald
+ Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser
+ Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
+ Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
+ The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
+ The Oracle Year by Charles Soule
+ Arrival by Ted Chiang
+ How to Live Safely in a Science-Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
+ The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber
+ Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
+ Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
+ The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
+ A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
+ Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
+ Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
+ Black Panther by various
+ The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
+ Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty
+ Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
+ Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
+ Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi
+ The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
+ Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
+ When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
+ Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
+ Hunger by Roxane Gay
+ Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
+ Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
+ The Mothers by Brit Bennett
+ The Color of Water by James McBride
+ My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
+ Tangerine by Christine Mangan
+ The Hospital by Ahmed Bouanani
+ You, Me, Everything by Catherine Isaac
+ Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
+ Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery
+ The Dry by Jane Harper
+ Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
+ To Dance with the White Dog by Terry Kay
+ Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
+ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
+ Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson
+ An American Marriage by
+ Reunion by Hannah Pittard
+ Sean of the South by Sean Dietrich
+ Portrait of the Alcoholic by Kaveh Akbar
+ Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar
+ French Milk by Lucy Knisley
+ Displacement by Lucy Knisley
+ Last Things by Marissa Moss
+ Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart
+ Blankets by Craig Thompson
+ Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
+ Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
+ Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson
+ Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
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