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Title is a complete sentence - Extreme Reader 2025

Reading suggestions for anyone to enjoy that also work for the Extreme Reader 2025 challenge! Additional Category Information: • A complete sentence includes a subject, verb, and a complete thought

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  • "Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before."
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2012] — YF SAENZ-B
  • "By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly…
    BookNew York : Del Ray, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, 2017. — SCI DICK-P
  • "Finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and…
    BookNew York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2019. — F TOKAR-O
  • "Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she…
    BookNew York, New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2017] — F HONEY-G
  • "Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest…
    BookNew York : Mariner Books, 2023. — MYS STEVE-B
  • "A young woman juggles pursuing her dream job in radio while helping her family compete with the new halal restaurant across the street, in this sparkling new rom-com by the author of Ayesha at Last. Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani…
    BookNew York : Jove, 2021. — F JALAL-U
  • Heartbreak Is the National Anthem

    How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

    Sheffield, Rob,
    "A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There's no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world's favorite pop star, songwriter, storyteller, guitar hero, live performer,…
    BookNew York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2024] — 782.4216 SWIFT 2024
  • "Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free…
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, [2020] — F ZHANG-C
  • "When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not…
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2017] — YF SANCH-E
  • "In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school."
    Book[New York] : Viking, [2023] — F MAKKA-R
  • "In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form of law enforcement: rather than incarceration, wrongdoers are given a second (and sometimes, third, fourth, and fifth) shadow as a reminder…
    BookNew York : Catapult, [2023] — F CRANE-M
  • "A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she…
    BookNew York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [2022] — 791.4502 MCCURDY 2022
  • "Jake and a woman known only as The Girlfriend are taking a long drive to meet his parents at their secluded farm. But when Jake takes a sudden detour, leaving The Girlfriend stranded at a deserted high school, the story transforms into a…
    BookNew York : Scout Press, 2016. — F REID-I
  • "Years ago Alex Marks escaped to New York City for a fresh start. Now, aside from trips to her regular diner for coffee, she keeps to herself, gets her perfectly normal copywriting job done, and doesn't date. Her carefully cultivated world…
    BookNew York : Atria Books, 2024. — F MAXWE-J
  • Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life

    Neil Gaiman, Jodi Picoult, Brad Meltzer, and An All-star Roster on the Caped Crusaders That Changed Their Lives

    "An anthology of essays exploring the origins of the authors' relationships to their favorite superheroes."
    BookNew York : Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, [2016] — 741.5352 L3393L 2016
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    a Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

    Gottlieb, Lori,
    "From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for…
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. — 616.8914 G715M 2019
  • "Protected by horror movies -- especially the ones where the masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them, Jade Daniels, an angry, half-Indian outcast, pulls us into her dark mind when blood actually starts to spill into the…
    BookNew York : Saga Press, 2021. — F JONES-S
  • "Like Ishiguro's previous works (The Remains of the Day; When We Were Orphans), his sixth novel is so exquisitely observed that even the most workaday objects and interactions are infused with a luminous, humming otherworldliness. The…
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. — F ISHIG-K
  • "In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable, and for…
    BookNew York : Picador, 2017. — 818.603 K8492O 2017
  • "After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. When the…
    BookNew York : Roaring Brook Press, 2021. — YF QUIND-K