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Reading suggestions for anyone to enjoy that also work for the Extreme Reader 2025 challenge!

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  • How to

    Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-world Problems

    Munroe, Randall,
    For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. [This book] is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly…
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019. — 502.07 M9269H 2019
  • When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens' Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she'll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what…
    Book[New York] : Pamela Dorman Books / Viking, [2024] — F POOLE-C
  • How to Age-proof Your Dog

    the Art and Science of Successful Canine Aging

    Murphy, Elizabeth U., 1958-
    How to Age-Proof Your Dog: The Art and Science of Successful Canine Aging gives dog owners the information and tools they need to provide proactive and preventative health care starting early in their dog's life and continuing throughout…
    BookLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017] — 636.7 M9529H 2017
  • How to Argue With a Racist

    What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

    Rutherford, Adam,
    The most up-to-date science on the genetics of who we are and where we come from, showing us a more scientifically enlightened way to talk colloquially about race.
    BookNew York, NY : The Experiment LLC, 2020. — 305.8 R9331H 2020
  • How to Be Ace

    a Memoir of Growing Up Asexual

    Burgess, Rebecca,
    Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. From school to work to relationships, this book offers an unparalleled insight into…
    BookLondon : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2021. — YG 306.762 B9127H 2021
  • On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without toys and diapers, without photos of their baby scattered about, and without any idea that the small child asleep in his crib is theirs.…
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2023] — F THOMP-M
  • Davi has done this all before. She's tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she's rallied humanity and made the final charge. But the time loop always gets her in the end. Sometimes she's killed…
    BookNew York : Orbit, 2024. — F WEXLE-D
  • After she shames herself on local television, Johanna Morgan reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde--a fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero--until two years later, while eviscerating bands as a music critic, she realizes she's built Dolly…
    BookToronto : HarperCollins Canada, 2014. — F MORAN-C
  • Vicky Decker has perfected the art of hiding in plain sight, quietly navigating the halls of her high school undetected except by her best (and only) friend, Jenna. But when Jenna moves away, Vicky's isolation becomes unbearable. So she…
    BookNew York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — YF ROAT-S
  • Helen Zhang hasn't seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now she's in Los Angeles, where the two have to work together. The result is messy, and electrifying.
    BookNew York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — F KUANG-Y
  • It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally, with her mom's subaru. Attempted vehicular manslaughter was not part of Shani's plan. She was supposed to be focusing on her monthlong paleoichthyology internship. She was going to…
    BookNew York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HaperCollins Publishers, [2022] — YF ARLOW-J
  • One daring to-do list and a crash course in flirtation turn a Type A overachiever's world upside down. When her flailing department lands on the university's chopping block, Professor Naya Turner's friends convince her to shed her frumpy…
    BookNew York : Jove, 2020. — F WILLI-D
  • Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives. As the world around them worsens, each…
    BookNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. — F LEUNG-M
  • Seventeen-year-old amateur sleuth Iris and her sapphic detective agency investigate the disappearance of Iris's cheerleader ex-girlfriend, who also happens to be the creator of a notorious true-crime podcast about Iris's missing older…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — YF WLOSO-V
  • 1938. Twelve-year old Sheldon Horowitz is still recovering from the tragic loss of his mother only a year ago when a suspicious traffic accident steals the life of his father near their home in rural Massachusetts. Sheldon, who was in the…
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. — F MILLE-D
  • Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully…
    Book[New York] : Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024] — 814.6 LAWSON 2024
  • Charles Yu, time travel technician, helps save people from themselves in Minor Universe 31, a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented…
    BookNew York : Pantheon Books, 2010. — SCI YU-C
  • How to Love

    a Guide to Feelings & Relationships for Everyone

    Norris, Alex (Cartoonist),
    Isn't it wonderful when love strikes? We connect with someone beautiful and interesting and suddenly--feelings. But what to do when that first crush levels you? When sparks fly and then fizzle? Or when love just . . . hurts?
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Walker Books, 2023. — YG 152.41 NORRIS 2023
  • Bethany Lu Carlisle is devastated when the tabloids report actor Keanu Reeves is about to tie the knot. What?! How could the world's perfect boyfriend and forever bachelor, Keanu not realize that making a move like this could potentially…
    BookNew York : Forever, 2021. — F JACKS-K
  • In her stunning debut, Souvankham Thammavongsa captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees in a nameless city, illuminating hopes, disappointments, love affairs, and above all, the pursuit of a place to belong.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — F THAMM-S