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Set on an island – Extreme Reader 2025

Reading suggestions for anyone to enjoy that also work for the Extreme Reader 2025 challenge! Additional category information: • A portion of the story takes place on an island • An island is a tract of land surrounded by water on all sides that is smaller than a continent

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  • After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. Now crime and corruption have set in, the…
    BookNew York : Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] — F MILLE-S
  • Follows six cases from the fifty-year career of brilliant Hong Kong detective Kwan Chun-dok, each from a pivotal period of the territory's history, from Chun-dok's experiences in the 1967 leftist riot to his final 2013 case in a Hong-Kong…
    BookNew York : Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2017. — F CHAN-H
  • Postcard-perfect Jar Island is home to charming tourist shops, pristine beaches, amazing oceanfront homes—and three girls secretly plotting revenge. KAT is sick and tired of being bullied by her former best friend. LILLIA has always…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2012] — YF HAN-J
  • Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and…
    BookNew York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — F MILLE-M
  • Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In New York City,…
    BookNew York : Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — YF ACEVE-E
  • In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lamba Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture,…
    BookNew York, NY : HarperPerennial, [2024] — 824.92 DE_ROZARI 2024
  • A vibrant, stunningly global novel about a young woman struggling to find her place--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss. On the small island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives a girl named Ayaana. She is solitary…
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. — F OWUOR-Y
  • Heidi Heilig's debut teen fantasy sweeps from modern-day New York City to nineteenth-century Hawaii to places of myth and legend. Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father's…
    BookNew York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016. — YF HEILI-H
  • Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group…
    BookNew York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2021. — YG GIRL
  • A sweeping novel set in Singapore during the years leading up to its independence from British colonial powers, about one young boy from a rural fishing family and the love story that will shape his life and complicate the fate of his…
    BookNew York : Riverhead Book, 2023. — F HENG-R
  • In a place where time is running out, sometimes the most radical act is remembrance. Hong Kong has long been known as a city of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that today exists at the margins of an authoritarian, ascendant…
    BookNew York : Random House, [2022] — 951.25 C4269I 2022
  • Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present and America's past by the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of Gun Dealer's Daughter. Two women, a Filipino translator and an American…
    BookNew York, NY : Soho Press, [2018] — F APOST-G
  • The Island of Doctor Moreau is the account of Edward Prendick, an English gentleman who finds himself shipwrecked and an unwelcomed guest on the Pacific Island of one Doctor Moreau. There, Prendick discovers Moreau is performing horrific…
    BookOxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017. — F WELLS-H
  • Jade is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. It has been mined, traded, stolen, and killed for -- and for centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family have used it to enhance their magical abilities and defend the island…
    BookNew York, NY : Orbit/Hachette Book Group, 2017. — F LEE-F
  • Recently orphaned Jane accepts an unexpected invitation from an old acquaintance to an island mansion where she will face five choices that could ultimately determine the course of her newly untethered life.
    BookNew York, NY : Kathy Dawson Books, [2017] — YF CASHO-K
  • A major debut from an award-winning writer-an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from…
    BookNew York : Riverhead Hardcover, 2014. — F YANIQ-T
  • An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of super advanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but…
    BookAshland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2019. — SCI TURNB-C
  • On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects--ribbons, bells, photographs. Then, body parts. Most of the island's inhabitants fail to notice these changes, while those few…
    BookNew York : Pantheon Books, [2019] — F OGAWA-Y
  • Missing Persons

    Or, My Grandmother's Secrets

    Wills, Clair,
    Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the gaping holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story.
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — 929.2094 WILLS 2024
  • Set in the post-martial-law era of 1990s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university.…
    BookNew York : New York Review Books, [2017] — F QIU-M